Our 10,000 Year Struggle Against Aristocracy

by: Gislebertus

Sat Jul 17, 2010 at 14:00

(A very welcome expansion on a comment I made in a previous post. 10,000 years in less than 10,000 words? Pretty much! - promoted by Paul Rosenberg)

In a recent blog post here, Paul Rosenberg explained the inability or unwillingness of the "serious people" in charge of our nation to address its fundamental problems: "It's the same old elitist aristocratic death grip that we've been struggling against for the past 10,000 years."

That's an excellent observation, one not often made, and I'd like to elaborate on it. Below is a basic outline of that struggle.