[Peace-discuss] The myth of freedom

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

In a situation where there is significant deprivation of the fulfillment 
of needs, the
extreme top is only affected minimally.  The extreme bottom isnt 
affected all that much
since it seems to be isolated from provision already.  The middle gets 
wiped out.

Pizzas are delivered every day.  As long as there is an unlimited supply 
of pizza,
everyone gets all they want or need.  Reduce the numbers of pizzas to a 
deprivation
point where there is not enough to go around.  Some will get all they 
want.  Some will not.
Those who accumulated pizza wealth at rapid rate will get better and 
better at eating
and the weaker slower eaters might not get any on some days.

We see this in pig raising scenarios where there are environmental 
deprivations.

The big pigs will eat first and then lie down in front of the feeder and 
ask the
others if they are big enough to make them move out of the way.  Finally 
the big
pigs get tired of lying in front of the feeder, but the situation is 
under their control.

The challenge is to design sustainable systems that allow provision of 
needs
while dampening the tendency of a small elite group to dominate and 
reduce access.




On 03/23/12 1:13, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> The speech described in the last paragraph below got Eugene Debs 
> thrown into jail by the vicious Woodrow Wilson, who kept him there 
> even after the war, because Debs had got so many votes for president. 
> The Supreme Court supinely accepted Wilson's violations of the First 
> Amendment with the weasel-words about "fire in a crowded theater."
>
> The "deeply un-American" Espionage Act was used by the federal 
> government three times in the century from Wilson's day to ours. The 
> Obama administration has already used it six times.
>
> http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/03/201231995523614214.html
>
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