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| quote: | Originally posted by herc750iL
I'm tired of you berating everyone on this board with your supposed genius, and gripe against the government and world in general. I have a chemical engineering degree from an ivy league university, yet i rarely ever mention it, or feel the need to try and make others feel inadequate (i'm just happy i was fortunate enough to get an education). If you're trying to make a difference in this country, i hate to say you picked the wrong major. your english/history/politics or whatever liberal arts degree you have won't get you anywhere, considering the way you handle yourself. Don't you know that all your whining and complaining and even letters to a congressman will not do anything?
The chances of me becoming ceo of the large, global, pharma company i work for, and sending lobbyists to washington to pay politicians and sway votes, are infinitely greater than the hope of any of your letters ever making a difference. Money and big business run this country now; its sad, but true. Doesn't it suck that all of your years of studying the government and language won't do anything (except allow you to argue with people on this board), while me and my just-enough-to-get-by knowledge of politics have a good chance to make a difference, because business holds so much power? I know you enjoy arguing, and using big words, and making yourself feel important, and thinking that your debates will spur some huge movement in society. Money and power sadly rule this country, and even more sadly, i doubt you will ever have either.
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Chemical engineering degree? Is that a B.S. or a Ph.D.? What you're basically saying is that you know a lot about very little - as you were focused on Chemical Engineering. I laughed at your assumption that my knowledge is based upon what I learned while getting a liberal arts degree. As I said in a previous post, I dropped out of college early on. It bored the hell out of me just like school always did when I was younger, so I learned to blaze my own trails after embarking upon a continuous and unrelenting journey towards higher cognitive development.
Anyway, I think it's the small-minded people like yourself that are much to blame for the problems in today's society. People think that they can buy anything nowadays (including happiness), but that couldn't be any further from the truth. Sure, money is power and power runs our world - but supposedly, the love of money is also the root of all evil. So I wonder where that leaves the members of the world's financial elite who are guilty of exploiting women and children (in sweatshops, etc.) for their own personal gains? Where does that leave the multinational corporations which have recently been accused of trafficking in women and children? I have a good recording from Capital Hill of Cynthia McKinney blasting Rumsfeld over the fact that one of those companies has continued to receive no-bid government contracts by the Pentagon, btw. Let me get back to my point, which is that power tends to corrupt while absolute power corrupts absolutely. Hitler sure held an amazing amount of power, as did Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Mussolini, Ghengis Khan, Ivan The Terrible, etc. Does that mean that the people should have simply capitulated and followed all of their orders? I'll let you figure that one out on your own, smart guy.
In regards to me making a difference through letters and other such discourse, it's letters to public officials and other ideas being freely disseminated abroad which have changed the course of humanity throughout the ages. Haven't you ever heard of Martin Luther and his 95 Theses? That man was able to drastically change the world's ideological landscape after taking on it's MOST POWERFUL organized religion. I'm not trying to go nearly as far as he did, though, as I'm only trying to wake people up to the fact that it's the religion of monetary greed which is steadily destroying us.
BTW - when I was a kid, my grandfather lived on the same street as prison and surveillance-industry magnate George Wackenhut. I rebelled against that money, power, ego hungry, win by all means necessary, corporate mindset at a very early age - probably because as a child I witnessed much of the pettiness and greed from some of those same CEO's whom you so aspire to be like. It took me until I was about twenty years old to actually figure it all out, but hopefully one day you will too.
| quote: | | This will be my only post in this thread. I simply felt someone needed to put you in your place. |
In other words, you had to properly defend your ignorance. It's cool.
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