Thursday, August 23, 2007

The Warfare State is Part of Us

You're quite right old lad, the government is a killing machine and all democracy does is allow the plebs to change villains every four years.


.One day in 1969, a biologist named George Wald, who had won a Nobel Prize, visited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- the biggest military contractor in academia -- and gave a speech. "Our government has become preoccupied with death," he said, "with the business of killing and being killed."

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as what Martin Luther King Jr. called "The World House." Under that heading, he wrote in 1967: "When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men. more

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