@PappasNick,
PappasNick;145691 wrote:Fido, can you expand on your metaphor a bit? I don't follow how the rat race of men is the leisured class. Are you talking about a leisured class that drives the rat race? Or is it a leisured class that, when it is not at leisure, engages in a rat race?
I used to make the drive from Lansing to Detroit every morning, and back West in the afternoon, and I think on ever road I have ever taken to work there is a hill where when you get to the top you can see a river of cars stretched out for as far as the eye can see... There are two kinds of rats... There are the sort that run the race, and the rat kings who benefit, and with their greed cause the race to be run... The rats are lonely individuals, singing along, or going for broke, sometimes putting on make up at 80 miles per our.. Everyone is late, and the rest only drive like they are...Its an ugly scene, make up and all, and I have seen it, often in sillouete behind a blazing sun
But the rat kings are worse...They suffer no moral doubts, and no lonliness...Their cooperation is a given: Go together to eat together...If they could lower wages to such an extent that they could force people to bear debt for the price of their daily bread they would do so...They are not individuals...The cooperation the mere rats find so impossible as individuals no Rat King...Join hands, and make a stand against the rats is their motto... And it shall always be so...
So debt for eduction is just a small part of it...If you can force wages lower, as they do across the board, you can suck all the money and wealth out of a society...It does not work, because when the people are broke so is the government...And that leads to revolution, but until that time everything is revolting...
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PappasNick;145839 wrote:Oh, I was thinking that philosophy would do the cleansing and stripping within the spheres of science and religion. My sense, you see, is that philosophy travels.
Philosophy time travels...To learn philosophy one must learn everything in general, and to understand the history of philosopy one must understand history...And just for a little excercis, trying doing anything the old way, because when you understand the want of technology you understand the skill of social organization, which was their technology, but is our Achillies heel...