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Originally posted by: ricarleite
I remember seeing on TV these bizarre devices that would avoid your car being stolen: flmae throwers at both sides of the car, a huge blade under the car that would slice the thief's legs, smoke and eletric shocks...
Wasn't that the ad with John Glover in in RocoCop 2? My personal favourite, directed by the Kersh. "Beeehaaave yourselves!!!!" Heh.
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But there's really one thing that can stop carjackings all over the world: fighting unemployment and crime.
Ahh the last of the idealists.
Current power structures have no interest in solving these problems only in disenfranchising them further, after all where is their power? What campaign contributions have the poor and the unemployed made lately?
To achieve true equity the kind only written and dreamed about would involve a massive shift away from exploitative capitalism in the global marketplace and a dissolution of the elite 'haves' in order to solve the problems of the 'have-nots'.
I like to think I'm a fairly Marxist guy and as "Bolshevy" as they come without living on the street but unfortunately I just don't see it happening. Democratic communism works in theory, but the theory doesn't factor in the general crappiness of human nature.
The future is looking pretty dystopic from where I sit, Fritz Lang and George Orwell were spot on. Corporatisation of the Governments will result in the 'have-mores' and the dead.
Just sit back and enjoy the ride down.