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To: TobagoJack who wrote (64757)	6/9/2005 12:37:23 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

consequences and outcomes: Globalization makes Bolivia close to France. Here’s why. The political elites kept the masses satisfied. The mass is lazy. They abhor changes in their life styles. They are happy as long as they could survive. Differences between France and Bolivia are just on the degree of what governments and the governing elites do to keep the mass happy and immobile. In Bolivia it is cheap to keep masses happy. In France is very expensive. France has heavy state intervention and distribution of income via unemployment. Gives benefit of free university education, promising a diploma as passport to the elites, even though youth is condemned to high unemployment even with diploma in hand. Dole out agriculture subsidies to keep their lifestyles even though it didn’t make economic sense. In Bolivia, coca leaves chewing kept the mass satisfied and their life style intact. All those poor countries protect “culture”. But we know that they don’t want to tell the masses and say: You adapt or you’ll be extinct. This has been working for 4.000 years since the Egyptians were building pyramids. Keep the mass on a ration of onions, tomatoes, fish and wheat, that they will worship the gods respect the priests and work their asses off to build any stupid thing they were told to. It is akin to, today, planting red beet to make sugar in an European farm with garanteed prices by the government. Population grew, the Nile started drying up as ice pile up down south from last glaciation was ending. The food stuffs doled out diminished the masses revolted stopped respecting the priests and building non sense. In old Europe, (France, Germany, Holland, Italy and UK to join soon), plus Bolivia and Venezuela, Krgystan, Ukraine the masses are revolting against the elites that no longer can keep them satisfied and immobile. They call for regime-change. In the past this was resolved by a strong man coming to power, blame outsiders and going to war. Moral standards of today prevent that to happen. So there is no way to limit the population through war. Shaking the masses out of their immobility. Cleaning part of the elites, and giving more power to some other members of the elites. Today I’m not sure how this is going to be resolve. I’m still thinking what could be the outcome. What I know for sure are two facts: 1) China is the only country that put their masses for productive work and without any change in regime has a chance to succeed. 2) Religious fervor is no guarantee of shielding the elites from the revolt of the masses and this may point to heavy sake up on the Muslin religion. Just incase one is surprised by Mentioning Bolivia nytimes.com