On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Jim Choate wrote:
Because of the changes in national governments and their increasing desire to regulate their citizenry and their economies according to flawed economic and social dogma we will see the following:
I have a little bit of a different take on things... I expect the first world to start to take after the East German model. -- Those who are precieved as being a possible threat will be marginalized, jailed, forced to flee, or co-opted. -- A large portion of the population will be devoted towards control of the population. (Either in law enforcement, paid snitches, propaganda, or similar activities.) -- Much of the Government's budget will be devoted to citizen control. (More will be spent on fighting internal threats than defending from external threats.) And since "The imposition of order = the escalation of disorder", it will only spiral downwards. In 50 years I expect that the creative citizenry will either be underground, fled, or no longer participating in the active discorse of the society. All of the life will be sucked out of the population in order to fight the "Scapegoats of the Week/Month/Year/Century". It will only fall apart when we reach a level where no one wants to live here any more and it falls apart from internal system failure and hemoraging. alan@ctrl-alt-del.com | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys.