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Originally Posted by General Grim
The thirteen year old comment was a reference towards something said on this site. I typed what I typed because it's true, the world will not turn totalitarian within my lifetime.
What "system" do you speak of?
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The system I refer to is the system of control and dependancy that our society is based on. Many basic self-sufficient skills are over-looked and areas of free thought are already controlled and manipulated. The moment we lock ourselves into an system of control refering to transportation, media, commerse and commuication is the moment with risk dependacy on those systems to sustain us.
There is a saying in fencing that has been adapted by political anaylists "That those outside your circle can not be attacked." Meaning that those of us who can operate without those functions being suppied to us, are outside the systems that regulate and control those elements. Those who can maintain such things without outside aid, can inturn control their environments by controlling themselves...
Examples:
Element: Inside the System: Outside the System:
Food Buying Food Growing your own
Travel Driving Maintaining Fittness
Security Police & EMTs Self-Defense & Weapons Training
Medical Needs Doctors Learning First-Aid & Herbal Medicines
While any system of human interaction (and in return control) is based on limiting knowledge and making things easier (thus inspiring laziness through comfort) those within such a system become more dependant upon that system to survive.
This issue you seem to be avioding is that the elements for totalitarianism are slowly being put into place, now and that with a war on Iran oil prices could double in a day and the results could very bad for the rest of us. A piece on the history channel outlined many of these facts. So you may well see such things and simply have to deal with them even though you want to aviod even the theoretical academics of such a concept.