Comments by "livingood1049" (@livingood1049) on "Why Mexico is poor." video.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater. --Frank Zappa
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@keagan6669 That's a good place to start. Now search for the answer within by first listening to viewpoints not in-line with your own. Not looking to simply prove yours right, but by giving equal weight to all points of view until you arrive at your truth.
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@keagan6669 Of course we all have the innate freedom to think and feel how we choose but I'm pretty sure that Zappa was referring to social and political freedoms, of which we have very little, and haven't for a very long time. So long in fact that we don't even remember what it's like. Freedom to know the truth of our past, freedom to determine the path of our future. When I look around the only freedom I see is to work hard for pennies, to afford scraps, or conversely, the freedom to starve.
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@keagan6669 All intended to divert attention away from the aforementioned brick wall.. If the executive officers in your company make more in their Christmas bonus than you do in 30 years, that's what I'm talking about.. If technology has accelerated hundreds of years beyond what we see every day, that's what I'm talking about. If social division distracts you from the devaluation of your currency, while scarcity of food and water grows as the cost for oil and electricity skyrockets, that's what I'm talking about.
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