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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay: [QB] The baldfaced selfishness and mercenary behavior of big business in America and the feckless matetrial minded minions who follow wherever they go, lay at the heart of the balkanized society we are becoming. If we have not already become so. There is a book by a fellow named Francis Fukuyama, [i]The End of History and the Last Man[/i] that argues in general that in a post-Stalinist era "people in the West themselves came to question whether liberal democracy was in the fact a general aspiration of all mankind...." Read some of the reviews and a general synopsis<A HREF="http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=3R432BR3Z2&mscssid=&isbn=0380720027"TARGET=_BLANK>here</A>. The point being that government is an institution that evolves along with the humanity that makes it up. There are many in American who see government appropriated and becoming a growing coporate democracy...in a way devolving back into democratic inclusion only for the wealthy. Or what might be defined in America as the new and growing class of super wealthy. It takes real courage and introspection to fight for social change. To fight against the growing trend of American coporate democracy. The easy route to turn inward and look only personal profit at the expense of humanity. Self-interest is the royal road. You folks can quote Limbaugh all you want. When pressed, he just runs and hides behind the skirts of 'oh, I'm just and entertainer...mine aren't [i]real[/i] political opinions.' Good job Squirrelman, and good job Omega for ducking the issues he brought up by hiding behind purty drawin's. [QUOTE]Human life...involves a curious paradox: it seems to require injustice, for the struggle against injustice is what calls forth what is highest in man.[/QUOTE] Stephen Holmes - The New Republic on Fukuyama. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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