Missing Octafish today. That is all. nt

[PatrickforO]

42. I tend to think RFK said that because he was being politic as a matter of survival,

having seen what happened to his brother. His intent upon election, however, was to further his brother's policies around curtailing the MIC by getting out of Vietnam, and poking the powers that be with civil rights advocacy. Like JFK, he had a pretty sharp vision of what this nation should be and was quite willing to vigorously attack how the nation is (was).

So, basically, I'm saying that one quote is a bit cloudy and that maybe we shouldn't just take it at face value.

I'm glad you and Octafish are friends, but I've got to still stand by what I said regarding so-called conspiracy theories. Seems to me that we often find ourselves being TOO dismissive when we should be digging deeper. Not like aliens and shit, you understand, but things like corporate collusion? You bet. I wouldn't put anything past some of those people because they are not really immoral - they have an absence of morality all together - they are amoral.

What this amorality looks like is akin to the people Himmler and Heydrich hired who could look at a concentration camp and see ways to make the death assembly line more efficient without seeing the horror of the camps themselves. Now, lest you say this is a spurious (or perhaps scurrilous) comparison, think about this:

Today's corporate 'c-class' are people who can be nice to their children and to animals while at the same time knowingly poisoning a water table with carcinogenic chemicals. And they can feel GOOD about earning $millions per year doing it, because they 'create value.' I mean, if people are willing to go that far, it doesn't seem that much of a stretch to 'remove' someone who is threatening profits, does it?

Guess I'm just not a capitalist, though I don't have any trouble at all with small business and entrepreneurship. It's just that these huge multi-nationals are another thing altogether.