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> Don’t be fooled by the spin on Iraq

26 April 2005, 11:59

Sorry, my friend, misunderstood your use of ’Stockholm syndrome’. -Can’t see the logic behind Islam or any religion come to that, but respect peoples need and desire for a spiritual crutch, and would not condemn people for that.

There is ’Stockholm syndrome’ in every society. In the old Soviet Union or China the citizens were told they lived under egalitarian, sharing communism. Due to greed by the politburo and leaders, and the inabilty to trade with the rest of the world due to sanctions, what they actually lived under was State Capitalism. As such TRUE communism has never been tried and tested, and to try sucessfully would have to be a global phenomenum. Now it is totally discredited due to a really good Western marketing campaign.

In the West we are told of our unfettered freedom, yet underlying this is a society based solely on the search for ’profit’. This goal hinders the development of humankind as a species. If we take scientific Research and Development, which has been largely outsourced by governments to private companies, for example, if a product is not profitable it will be dropped,regardless of how beneficial it may be. For the growth of humans as a species there has to be more emphasis on a society that places need above profit.