Is the Chick-Fil-A controversy pushing Bain and Romney's tax returns off the front page?

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30. I think it's only logical. Knowing what foolishness people can be taken in by, and how eager they

Have proven themselves to turn on each other, they give us hate to feed on and keep our eyes off of them. This is nothing new.

The bread and circuses in Rome were used to inflame the most worthless tendencies of human beings, to keep the commoners out of the way of the patricians. Would someone who had the advantage of knowing history, be willing to submit to the mob? Or seek to protect their lives and their families from them?

That's on the lower and higher levels, as well. Anyone who has the advantage of knowledge, especially as the PTB or whatever they are have, will use it. The knowledge itself is not good or evil, it is neutral. The accumulated data from the internet, satellites, governments, universities, militaries, corporations and the space program are in the hands of a few.

Those who were specialized enough to gather the data will be loyal to those they worked for. Those they worked for will make decisions based on the data. We don't want to believe in social classes, we want to fulfill our destinies as humans and as individuals. We don't give overt, public support to these folks but we do in everything else we do.

What we do for a living is all part of that. I think we are just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. As in the civil war in Spain in the 1930s, the 'good guys,' don't always win. Some of the people did survive the sinking of the Titanic, while many did not. In the plague years in Europe, the same happened.

All of that precludes the ideas of those who do talk about social classes, like socialists and communists. They energized generations to call for a more equal social order. Religion at one time actually played a positive role in movements such as abolition, worker, immigrant, and racial justice, and even the environmental movements. These were all co-opted in the Reagan era. Or maybe earlier, in the 1950s. Certainly they were of no help in the pre-Civil War days or during Jim Crow.

At this point in history, we need to be united more than ever. But every single institution and social organizing mechanism that once united us, has been taken over and is used to destroy that unity. It's very difficult to move past the point of this. Those are just a few thoughts on this.