Quotes on humor and truth

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[ltr]"It has long been understood, very well, that a society that is based on this principle [individual material gain] will destroy itself in time."

– Noam Chomsky[/ltr]

"This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor."
                 Martin Luther King Jr.

I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems it falls victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
Martin Luther King Jr.

He was fighting 14 years ago vs corp greed! It has only gotten worse!!

Nina Turner
@ninaturner
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The middle class is shrinking.

The poor, working poor and barely middle class can hardly survive.

Meanwhile, billionaires have seen their wealth skyrocket to new heights.

Don’t tell me this system isn’t rigged.

Those fighting to keep wages below $15 are its architects.

Truer words have never been spoken! --------



"The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know." ~ Noam Chomsky

"If wealth were to become general, it would confer no distinction." George Orwell

Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich!  
                                                                                                     Unknown author

"There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat."

Gore Vidal

[size=15]Edward Snowden

@Snowden

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Oct 17


Intolerance and the ruthless self-interest of political parties have so damaged the foundation of nationhood—the willingness to cooperate with one's neighbor—that I fear we have already witnessed the failure of some the greatest states of our era.[/size]

Prophetic-----

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark