Will we arise?

Contemplating Aristotle

Have we become too complacent in recent times? Do we as the proletariat of all ranks allow the bourgeois in the media, and the captains of 21st century industry to buy us off with mass produced, yet culturally and spiritually empty products? Have we become estranged from all deeper meaning in the vain hope of supplying the pockets of greedy bourgeois commercialists with our money, for riches in return?

Have the glossy emblems of producer and consumer capitalism enslaved our creative and true being, our inner child seeking creativity and beauty? Have we allowed ourselves become estranged from deeper meaning and beauty, and reduced ourselves to robotic entities fulfilling mundane tasks in our cubicles, just so we can release our earned wages back into the same system which contains us in our mundane workplace.

Have the commercialists, by their making knowledge and products more widely available than ever, also armed all ranks of the 21st century proletariat with the means of bringing them down?

Ruu_Old

too many big words. zzzzzz

cosmicfart

Anyone who posts on this thread is in agreement with you. now shat it.

Biggins

Were not ye directed where to post this stuff already or are you just ignoring mods completely?

mike65

We shall arise and follow Enda!

Yahew

Contemplating Aristotle wrote: »

Have we become too complacent in recent times? Do we as the proletariat of all ranks allow the bourgeois in the media, and the captains of 21st century industry to buy us off with mass produced, yet culturally and spiritually empty products? Have we become estranged from all deeper meaning in the vain hope of supplying the pockets of greedy bourgeois commercialists with our money, for riches in return?

Have the glossy emblems of producer and consumer capitalism enslaved our creative and true being, our inner child seeking creativity and beauty? Have we allowed ourselves become estranged from deeper meaning and beauty, and reduced ourselves to robotic entities fulfilling mundane tasks in our cubicles, just so we can release our earned wages back into the same system which contains us in our mundane workplace.

Have the commercialists, by their making knowledge and products more widely available than ever, also armed all ranks of the 21st century proletariat with the means of bringing them down?

Yeah, the next thing we will do now is nationalise all the factories and then we'll be free of cubicles. Like all state workers.

hondasam

Contemplating Aristotle wrote: »

Have we become too complacent in recent times? Do we as the proletariat of all ranks allow the bourgeois in the media, and the captains of 21st century industry to buy us off with mass produced, yet culturally and spiritually empty products? Have we become estranged from all deeper meaning in the vain hope of supplying the pockets of greedy bourgeois commercialists with our money, for riches in return?

Have the glossy emblems of producer and consumer capitalism enslaved our creative and true being, our inner child seeking creativity and beauty? Have we allowed ourselves become estranged from deeper meaning and beauty, and reduced ourselves to robotic entities fulfilling mundane tasks in our cubicles, just so we can release our earned wages back into the same system which contains us in our mundane workplace.

Have the commercialists, by their making knowledge and products more widely available than ever, also armed all ranks of the 21st century proletariat with the means of bringing them down?

did you copy and paste that ?

cosmicfart

Yahew wrote: »

Yeah, the next thing we will do now is nationalise all the factories and then we'll be free of cubicles. Like all state workers.

i hate pigeon holes

fontanalis

And there shall in that time be rumours of things going astray, and there will be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base, that has an attachment…at this time, a friend shall lose his friends’s hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before around eight o’clock...

Latchy

Just like Blue ? yeah.... all rise ....all rise

cesc77

Jayyyyyyyysus,here we go again....This guy is a sadist methinks.

All this spake of the borgers is making tummy hungry.I must go and sate his desire with mass produced consumer item which I purchased through excellent advertising techniques.

Actually they were on offer:pac:

After which I may go and complete a mundane task of my own in a cubicle whilst pondering the OPs question.

thehairyelbow

I'd love a ham sandwich

Biggins

Want a burger myself.

Hookah

Jake is much nicer since he started attending philosophy class.

Gunmonkey

I love when the 1st year Political Science students FINALLY open their course text books for the first time in preperation for their exams, get lovely posts like the OP.......

cesc77

cosmicfart wrote: »

i hate pigeon holes

Sicko.

How do you catch them by the way?.......Only askin

El Horseboxo

No because the Irish rebellious attitude seems to have died with republicanism.

thehairyelbow

Gunmonkey wrote: »

I love when the 1st year Political Science students FINALLY open their course text books for the first time in preperation for their exams, get lovely posts like the OP.......

Feckin students

Biggins

El Horseboxo wrote: »

No because the Irish rebellious attitude seems to have died with republicanism.

I disagree, a lot more have become too complacent but there is still a few of us still willing to stand up and point out injustices.
...We just not willing to use violence to make our point.

fontanalis

Biggins wrote: »

I disagree, a lot more have become too complacent but there is still a few of us still willing to stand up and point out injustices.
...We just not willing to use violence to make our point.

Oh no, you have to destroy property. It worked in Greece.

Yahew

fontanalis wrote: »

Oh no, you have to destroy property. It worked in Greece.

Yes, its working out well for them.

( not that its working out better for us to be non-violent).

No violence needed, just restructuring of debt.

Yahew

This OP reminds me of why I think there is really only one form of intelligence: that is the scientific mind. We could well think about doing away with philosophy courses: really history of philosophy courses. These are from our intellectual youth. We have moved on.

fontanalis

Yahew wrote: »

Yes, its working out well for them.

( not that its working out better for us to be non-violent).

No violence needed, just restructuring of debt.

Only problem, if you're the one with the debt and no money you don't start of with strong negotiating terms.
Personally I'd like if voters cared less about parochialism and surnames.

Mike 1972

Bloody lefty pinkos.

For decades they were demanding that we nationalise the banks.

Now weve done it and theyre still not happy.........................

Chuck Stone

Yahew wrote: »

No violence needed, just restructuring of debt.

Or not nationalising the failures of private finance in the first place?

biko

AH isn't ready for this high brow stuff.
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