Cynthia H. Brown wrote:
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is another useful argument here - people were so concerned with feeding and clothing themselves that they did not have time to concern themselves with niceties like freedom.
The same is true today. Both government and industry operate on the principle that control over money/employment is the ring which they can place through the noses of the populace in order to lead them into any type of freedom-delimiting pen they wish. If you want your children to eat, then you had best be prepared to piss into a jar when told to do so. The government and business are able to foist innumerable atrocities on the populace just by virtue of screwing them around in so many ways that they can only focus their energy in overcoming a few of them. A woman who has to spend five years fighting for the right not to be passed over for promotion for having ovaries is not likely to have a lot of energy left over for fighting against having to piss in a jar, as well. Big Brother and Big Business chip away at a thousand 'petty' freedoms and act like they are being noble and gracious when they return a few to the citizens after long, hard battles against doing so. -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html