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16/04/2008 16:26:42
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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pointless rebellion.

Why pointless? Not too far from here there is a self-selected elite that reacts with rage should anybody question them or their self-serving behaviors. That's what happens when nobody "rebels." The trick is to needle and question just enough to cause people to take a look in the mirror. Not enough needling leads to a Victorian society where the "elite" is complacent, hypocritical and increasingly irrelevant to their supposed principles. Too much and it becomes a tale of sound and fury signifying nothing. Combine this with the "every rebel is a closet dictator" tendency and the internet and we have a recipe for constant angst. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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