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Demeter

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86. I come not to praise Steve Jobs, but to BURY Him

Mon Jan 23, 2012, 02:00 PM

Jan 2012

in evidence of his criminality.

A criminality that spans the globe, poisons the world mentally physically and spiritually.

A criminality that the world hasn't ever faced--

worse than viking slavery, Amerindian slavery, and other forms of chattel slavery
worse than Rome's slavery, which was more a form of indentured servitude
worse than the 17th and 18th and 19th century slavery because it pervaded more than agriculture, which technology could make obsolete.

Manufacturing slavery is a handmaiden to technology, and not replaced by it except in the most basic ways.

Unfortunately, I think I have a theme for the Weekend...

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