Es ist Zeit für reich!

[Heraclitus]

I've already said that this feels like a 1920's or 30's rerun, but still.... if we go into depression what will arise... good old fashion fascism, Nazism or Communism? Or will it be something new like technocracy or ecofascism?


Most young people over here seem to be in a slightly nationalist marching mood and have a undirected anger at the system not to mention a deep distrust of immigrants.



So I may as well start practicing marching in silly uniforms....

[Zevico]

Technocracy sounds pretty cool. I for one welcome our new physicist overlords.
Edit: A serious answer.

Here in Australia, if any extremist group was to rise in popularity, I suppose it would be far-right One Nation Hansonites.

[Zkribbler]

It dunno. That whole Nutzi thing didn't work out too well last time.

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by Zevico
Technocracy sounds pretty cool. I for one welcome our new physicist overlords.

Come to think of it, that would be pretty cool. Imagine taking such a diverse people bunch of people like KH, JM, yours truly, Starchild and backing their words with nuclear weapons....


On the other hand, how could they be worse that what we have now?

[OneFootInTheGrave]

technocracy in China... to be adopted in US first... UK to follow next

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
It dunno. That whole Nutzi thing didn't work out too well last time.

No, they just had an attack everyone bug. The AI's been fixed in the post 1993 patch.

[Riesstiu IV]

I'm an advocate of technocratic fascism. We get cool laser guns and black uniforms.

[Nikolai]

Our freedoms which we all take for granted has already for a few years been under pressure. Mostly from multiculturalists and anti-terrorists. I don't think it's unlikely that this trend will strenghten as a result of the crisis, if it drags on and gets worse.

[Verto]

Originally posted by Nikolai
Our freedoms which we all take for granted has already for a few years been under pressure. Mostly from multiculturalists and anti-terrorists.

Don't forget religious loonies

[Lancer]

Originally posted by Verto


Don't forget religious loonies

Whatever has been started will end at Armageddon.

[Verto]

Originally posted by Lancer


Whatever has been started will end at Armageddon.

You bring up another frightening aspect of the religious dominance in government: wanting to turn US foreign policy into a tool to forcibly bring about Armageddon/the Second Coming/bla bla bla. It's the only reason many people "support" Israel: so they can provoke the countdown.

[Lancer]

I didn't know that! In fact, I still don't.

[Verto]

Evangelical support for Israel dates to the 19th century, when Christian Zionists called for the return of Jewish exiles to Palestine to fulfill biblical prophecies. If the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 seemed the answer to the Christian Zionists' prayers -- not to mention those of the Jewish people -- the extraordinary victory of Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War seemed to them a sure sign of divine will.

Evangelicals, meanwhile, have been very supportive of Israel's policies, especially military actions against radical Palestinian groups. In an online survey of U.S. evangelicals after Monday's attack on Sheik Ahmed Yassin, 89 percent of the 1,630 respondents supported the killing of the Hamas leader -- compared with the 61 percent of Israelis who supported the attack in a survey by the newspaper Maariv.

Eckstein, whose organization conducted the informal survey of evangelicals, said most people who contribute to the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews do so for religious reasons but also want to show their political solidarity with Israel. They oppose any withdrawal of Jewish settlers and "are very distrustful of Palestinians, of [Yasser] Arafat. They would make good Likudniks," he said.

Most Jewish leaders don't ignore the religious reasons many evangelicals support Israel. But they prefer not to dwell on theological differences, wanting to avoid the kind of heated arguments that erupted over Gibson's film.

"Many Jews and many Israelis are very open-eyed about the driving religious philosophy of the evangelicals and why they want Israel to exist," said Harris, whose organization helped start Christian-Jewish dialogues a half-century ago. But Jews are practical, he said. "The end of time may come tomorrow, but Israel hangs in the balance today."

Washington Post

Let's also not forget John Hagee who has written about the need for Israel and the US to attack Iran in order to start Armageddon.

Glad to clear that up.

[Lancer]

I'm not saying it isn't a good idea, I just don't believe its in practice. Simply because it will happen whether a bunch of people work to make it happen or not.

Armageddon is a future historical fact.

[Verto]

OK, I'm done.