Al Qaeda depends upon Muslim believers. However, the events we are seeing across the Arab world is not a movement toward Islam, but a movement toward secularization. It is the middle class in Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, and Bahrain which has taken the lead in replacing the old regimes. The desire for a better life, a life with more pleasure, less difficulty in filling ones belly, more opportunities for children, more entertainment, and more say drive this change. Now some may see this as good. Some may see it as bad. However, it must be placed into a larger picture.
In America, the Dream has failed. It has failed because of technology. The production rate has continued to grow in America every year of the recession at the same time that the rates of unemployment have be high. Why? Because the factories, the manufacturing hub of our economy that makes the goods for sale, is becoming increasingly robotized. It takes only one worker to do the work of 100 before. Robots do not demand time off for snow, for rain, for heat, for sickness, for child birth, for vacations, or for holidays. They do not complain about over work. They are not unionized. So, we have far fewer jobs in the manufacturing areas than the past. Yet we have more people.
In the past, these people would have worked the land. But, even farming has become robotized and mechanized and one farmer can feed 186 people while 100 years ago he could feed only 20. Even on the farm, the people have replaced by the machines.
So what do we do with the burgeoning population. Rome had this problem. It gave them religion and circuses. Religion makes the poor content with their condition and circuses make the middle class content with their condition. We have over 300,000,000 people in America we had 100,000,000 when I was born. The underclass is mostly made up of illegal aliens and the newest immigrants. Thus blacks and hispanics are free to spend their days reproducing. And yet only 36,000 jobs were created last week at the same time that there were 20,000 births and a labor reserve of unemployed numbering 30,000,000. As the numbers of persons available for sale increased in Rome due to its expansion, the number of fatal games increased. Christians, malefactors, losers, and those who lost at war were sent to the arena to entertain. A time is coming when slavery will be revived throughout the world. Those slave will be warriors and those warriors will be sent as mercenaries around the world to subjugate corporations and the elite to ever growing corporations and elite and the show will entertain the masses.
If you do not believe me, look at the last week. Every major news organization has been watching what 250,000 people were doing in Cairo. Yet there are 79,000,000 Egyptians who were not interviewed, discussed, moved, etc. The news media wanted violence and supported violence. Why? To entertain the masses.
The time is coming when people convicted of crimes throughout Europe and America will be sent to do battle for their lives to entertain the masses and to subjugate the huge masses elsewhere. What can be done? Nothing. We simply have too many people to keep them all busy. But wars are ruining our economy. Governments must find ways to pay for their adventurism and Rome's method was plunder. I predict that just as oil was one reason for recent wars, other valuable assets will be reason for the next wars.
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