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[srf Rantz]

www.stanfrantz.com

I've spent my entire life wondering what drives the "psychopaths". I just don't get it.

On the other hand I was told all my life, "you just don't have any ambition" to which I would reply "so?" (and incidentally women would run for the nearest exit ;-) having been biologically and socially programmed to "desire" a man who could "provide" for them, but let's not go there shall we?)

back to the OP.

this is important. this is the MOST IMPORTANT thing to do. to clearly articulate this concept of society.

billionaires like the Koch brothers, have been spending their billions to literally change the culture to a Randian perspective and have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.

A community oriented perspective such as so clearly described in this article, which in my youth was almost universally accepted and desired, has now been demonized into near-obscurity and is beaten down in some kind of perverse game of whack-a-mole whenever it even attempts to be expressed in any broader context. This is the function of Glenn Beck et al.

It will take a super-human effort to overcome the deficit of cultural advantage now enjoyed by "the other side."

or more likely, the complete collapse of our society and economy, followed by seemingly endless war, devastation and finally some sort of rebirth of the desire for mutual cooperation and peace.

which will sadly be all too brief as the cycle repeats endlessly.

or we just eventually blow the fucking planet to bits.