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The state enables corporate entities to violate law as they provide a useful distraction from the people taking up needed political reforms. The stateful natur

The state enables corporate entities to violate law as they provide a useful distraction from the people taking up needed political reforms. The stateful nature of a state is to be whatever those in power wish it. James Madison warned against “innovation” in government. The state he defined is to be protected forever. This is what Senators like McConnell believe. Apple acts like that, essentially, because the police and state are there to guard them from you. The public is fine to sit and ignore it, not protest it. As are the public officials who prefer to do as little as possible. A politicians real job is to admonish and denigrate the public for being entitled. https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/8793/what-did-james-madison-try-to-say-when-talking-about-agrarian-reform https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/8793/what-did-j...

bluedevil2k 6y ago
> The state enables corporate entities to violate law as they provide a useful distraction from the people taking up needed political reforms. What? This sounds like some crazy conspiracy theory, do you have any investigations showing any evidence of this?
- appl3statecollu 6y ago
  While there are decades of studies to back it, I hardly need them. Also the link is to a James Madison quote where he writes to the effect that the Senate should be a firewall against democratic effort to reshape society from aristocratic rule to democratic. Is the mind of the man who wrote the Constitution enough evidence? Notice as unemployment grew so has time for protests. They have no income to lose, no future. Lacking distraction of chasing a rent payment, people are shouting for the defunding of racist policing systems, able to jump into mass protests against dismantling USPS and more. It’s a simple mathematical fact: chasing financial survival distracted from putting agency into publicly valuable political reforms. Constant fear of job loss is a well known tool for insuring compliance: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-of-workers-is-a-big-factor-in-fed-policy.html https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o... When jobs can’t be... there’s no compliance. Edit: that isn’t say I agree with shallow job culture. “Providing” a shallow grift like bartender or oil changer for decades is authoritarian in my mind. It lets many off the hook to think critically, and emboldens powerful people which resources to measure and attempt to manage public ignorance to hide their Griggs. Adam Smith warned explicitly that extreme division of labor would make humans the stupidest creatures on the planet. Our President, ladies and gentlemen, lifted up by ignorant day laborers.

bluedevil2k 6y ago

> The state enables corporate entities to violate law as they provide a useful distraction from the people taking up needed political reforms. What? This sounds like some crazy conspiracy theory, do you have any investigations showing any evidence of this?

appl3statecollu 6y ago
While there are decades of studies to back it, I hardly need them. Also the link is to a James Madison quote where he writes to the effect that the Senate should be a firewall against democratic effort to reshape society from aristocratic rule to democratic. Is the mind of the man who wrote the Constitution enough evidence? Notice as unemployment grew so has time for protests. They have no income to lose, no future. Lacking distraction of chasing a rent payment, people are shouting for the defunding of racist policing systems, able to jump into mass protests against dismantling USPS and more. It’s a simple mathematical fact: chasing financial survival distracted from putting agency into publicly valuable political reforms. Constant fear of job loss is a well known tool for insuring compliance: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-of-workers-is-a-big-factor-in-fed-policy.html https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o... When jobs can’t be... there’s no compliance. Edit: that isn’t say I agree with shallow job culture. “Providing” a shallow grift like bartender or oil changer for decades is authoritarian in my mind. It lets many off the hook to think critically, and emboldens powerful people which resources to measure and attempt to manage public ignorance to hide their Griggs. Adam Smith warned explicitly that extreme division of labor would make humans the stupidest creatures on the planet. Our President, ladies and gentlemen, lifted up by ignorant day laborers.