The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected -- Swedish Proverb Beware of a man with one book --English saying Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo --Krishnamurti In my last post, Mnemonics For Antiquity: Part Two , we ended with Kings 1 which introduced the concept of taxes. Since we now are involved with kings and divine right, taxes work like this: you work on the land I own growing and harvesting food for me, and a little for yourself, of course, and after surplus has been sold, you pay me some money for your efforts. Serfdom. And then came sharecroppers and then came you. We have continued with the concepts of cycles and examined canons, which we now can see clearly, are also mechanisms which enforce duplications of work which support systems that benefit a select few. The philosopher, Luis ...
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