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The point is that a highly complex society has many points of failure that individually impact the entire web of complexity. Lose rubber and you've lost your entire transportation sector. Lose oil and much the same happens. Lose your source of microchips and you have to revert back to pre-1980's technology. Lose your manufacturing base -- which has already happened in America -- and you have no capability to start building the stuff you need in your own country anymore.

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"What is made abundantly clear from the brutal nature of Kody Scott's initiation is that what one society designates as sacred may be very different than what another society deems as sacred. What may be morally acceptable and righteous behavior for one c

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"Tunisian state television reported that the protests were "isolated events." This narrative, however, was completely shattered when Al Jazeera satellite television aired Facebook and YouTube videos, as well as Flickr images showing that the demonstrations were anything but isolated. Ironically, Al Jazeera and other Arab television networks were forced to turn to social media videos because non-state media were banned from reporting from Tunisia.

The activism also spread globally, through the Internet, and gained further ground when it joined forces with the now infamous global "hactivist" group "Anonymous," which recently attacked the servers of Visa, Mastercard and PayPal when the companies started blocking donations to WikiLeaks. In fact, the group told Al Jazeera, "The thing that did it for us was initially [Tunisian authorities'] censoring of WikiLeaks."

"Anonymous" hackers temporarily shut down at least eight Tunisian government websites, including those for the president, prime minister, ministry of foreign affairs and the stock exchange, reports Al Jazeera.

With such powerful and far-reaching effects, the Tunisian social media activism has quickly caught the ire of the Tunisian government. Authorities have hijacked and deleted the Facebook pages of some of the most vocal activists in the Tunisian cyber-community such as Sofiene Chourabi, a journalist for Al-Tariq al-Jadid magazine and a strong critic of the government."

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Along with normal business people who have some decency but are part parasitic, there is a highly functional subset of sociopathic dominators who currently call the shots. They are the "masters of the universe" because our financial system is designed to reward the most amoral and sociopathic behavior. In a system that reduces natural resources to profit engines, the less compunction you feel about wrecking ecosystems or annihilating local cultures or mind-controlling the multitude, the more you and your company will succeed.<br/><br/>A certain subset of the human population is born sociopathic. In a traditional society like Ancient Egypt or the Classic Maya, such sociopaths would be recognized as both gifted and cursed, and an initiatory path would be defined for them based on their psychology, under the tutelage of dark gods such as Set or Tezcatlipoca. They would be given a defined role and function in society, but not permitted to govern it. For a new planetary culture to emerge and thrive, we will need to establish this kind of balance again.

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