Joanna
Mike Ballard wrote:
>The overall climate of fear is much less in this capitalist society and
>I'd say that that has a lot to do with the issue of social caring which
>is implied in the fact that, if you're poor in Oz, you have free
>medical care and if you're unemployed in Oz, you can get dole payments
>until you find a job. This leads to a set of social relations which
>make people less edgy and anxious, even though most of them are still
>wage-slaves. This leads to a society where scapegoating the weak via
>say, family violence is less pronounced. Less abuse leads to a less
>abusive society. This kind of societal attitude springs more from the
>"no worries mate" kind of feeling one generally encounters here. IN
>America, the general feeling is one of "hooray for me, f**k you."
>That's why so many people feel comfortable voting for chumps like Shrub
>and his Republican police state specialists.
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