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We Can Do A Lot Better Than This<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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The dark ages still reign over all\u00a0humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

Politics\u00a0is absolutely hopeless. That\u2019s why everything has gone wrong.\u00a0You have ninety-nine percent of the people thinking \u201cpolitics,\u201d and hollering and yelling. And that won\u2019t get you anywhere. Hollering and yelling won\u2019t get you across the English Channel. It won\u2019t reach from continent to continent; you need electronics for that, and you have to know what you\u2019re doing. Evolution has been at work doing all these things so it is now possible. Nobody has consciously been doing it. The universe is a lot bigger than you and me. We didn\u2019t invent it.\u00a0If you take all the machinery in the\u00a0world\u00a0and dump it in the\u00a0ocean, within months more than half of all\u00a0humanity\u00a0will\u00a0die\u00a0and within another six months they\u2019d almost all be gone; if you took all the\u00a0politicians\u00a0in the world, put them in a rocket, and sent them to the\u00a0moon, everyone would get along fine.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Quotes by Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

When thinking about the financial crisis of nearly a decade ago, many people wrongly focus on the event itself as opposed to the response. I\u2019m of the view that the most destructive aspect of that grotesque period of American history wasn\u2019t the collapse itself, but the government and central bank response to it. This response centered around bailing out and rewarding those most responsible for the disaster, which merely served to further concentrate power and wealth in the hands of people who should be rotting in jail as opposed to guzzling Ch\u00e2teau Lafite\u00a0at Davos.<\/p>\n

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We Can Do A Lot Better Than This The dark ages still reign over all\u00a0humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. Politics\u00a0is absolutely hopeless. That\u2019s why everything has gone wrong.\u00a0You have ninety-nine percent of the people thinking \u201cpolitics,\u201d and hollering and yelling. And that won\u2019t get you anywhere. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18084,4285,6174],"class_list":["post-30031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-buckminster-fuller","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30032,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30031\/revisions\/30032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}