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Old 2013-01-05, 16:23   Link #95
felix
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: event horizon
Is it? "Freedom" has brought more to the table then thousands of years of control ever did. And people were living in groups for generations, yet it was only when they gain some degree of freedom though either plentiful food (via something like the Neil) or some other advent, that they were ever able to achieve anything. The argument you're posing is that because they have their system they can maintain their society, but can it be considered a society while they have their system? and can it ever grow beyond their system? From my point of view it's nothing more then a very sophisticated jail, even for the "good" inhabitants. This caged bird status doesn't seem to allow for much of anything because while from a certain perspective you could say they are working together, what they really are is limited to working together in very confined group and space. I don't call that kind of system a society; it's at best a hospital. There has to be better ways of dealing with it.
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