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In reply to the discussion: The real truth is that people across the planet are fed up of [View all]ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)And that book doesn't define it.
You do have one thing correct though. I just couldn't finish the thing. It read like one of those execrable Limbaugh or FOX-News-personality polemics, just with the political affiliations of the boogiemen reversed. A mix of half-truths (sometimes with nuggets of actual truth), black and white thinking, tons of mischaracterizations, and outright conspiracy theories that are laughable on its face. It is worthwhile only preaching to the choir, but mostly dangerous in its mindless conflation of individual villainy with systemic criticism.
The reality based community, on the other hand, knows that, in the immortal words of Pogo, "We have met the enemy, and he is us." Specifically, all of the problems with wealth, or lack thereof, can pretty easily be traced back to the unwillingness of many third world societies to use birth control, literally doubling the population of the planet since the 1970s. Regardless of economic system, this is simply unsustainable. And that some people have gotten rich keeping hundreds of millions of people from literally starving to death (by taking advantage of dirt cheap desperate labor) is only the symptom, not the cause.
- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community