tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1447795675465650186.post2124572464470918477..comments2024-01-26T14:55:53.466-05:00Comments on Best before yesterday: A stateless society?Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726301179207891280noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1447795675465650186.post-50069022943654868162008-02-17T19:53:00.000-05:002008-02-17T19:53:00.000-05:00Here are the great ironies that state-run societie...Here are the great ironies that state-run societies have created:<BR/><BR/> * We’ve got GM food, and starving millions<BR/> * Coke and Pepsi everywhere, and no clean water to drink<BR/> * We’ve split the atom, and used it to incinerate cities and mutate genes<BR/> * We’ll have a laptop for every child, and pandemic sexual molestation<BR/> * We’ve broken the sound barrier, and shortened the time to bombs away<BR/> * Technology will save us - we will know how to do everything and respect nothing<BR/> * We’ve got wall to wall electronics, and absent parents<BR/> * We’ve got universal public education, and moral bankruptcy<BR/> * We vote in elections, and live in a dictatorship<BR/> * We’ve got sensory overload, and long for a touch<BR/> * We’ve got Homeland Security, and fear that our phones are tapped<BR/> * We’ve got endless war to make the world safe<BR/> * We’ve achieved “full spectrum dominance” and reaped hatred everywhere<BR/> * We can splice a gene, but cannot mend a heart<BR/> * We’ve got wide roads and narrow minds<BR/> * We’ve got machines to save labor, but no time to rest<BR/> * We support presidents who murder by the millions, and jail citizens who use an “illegal” drug<BR/> * “We have become nuclear giants and ethical infants.” ~ Gen Omar Bradley<BR/><BR/>There is no compelling reason to continue to embrace such a condition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com