Are They? (was Re: Human Interactions)

[Mike Weaver]

Jbor - troll hunting:

>Well, you miscued. It was the ubiquitous "They" which crops up in *GR*
>(that's why I capitalised it and put it into quotes, you see) that can never
>be pinned down to any entity -- individual, corporate, government or
>otherwise -- and which is down to us. Some get it, some don't.
>
> > Like TP says "The Man has an agent in each of our brains..."
> > Doesn't mean we have to dance their tune, does it? even if most of us have
> > to pay the percentage.
>
>Exactly my point. But there is no "The Man" (except for Ali). It's just a
>convenient fiction.

And there is a difference between us.  IMO you have succumbed to Their 
myth. Fooled by the devil's greatest trick ;¬)

"They" may not have clearly defineable limits, some entities, collective or 
individual,may slip back and forth across the  boundaries, but They most 
certainly exist.  They are the sum total of organised greed and rapacity, 
and all the support systems which keep the system stable (which includes a 
little bit of all of us at some time or another.)

"They" doesn't describe an entity or group of entities but the _system_ of 
control to which many entities enthusiasically subscribe and which many 
others condone.

         The concern of many of us is to generate a We system capable of 
supplanting Their system with a far more creative and nurturing way of 
life.  Antonio Gramsci was the man who described these things most 
clearly:  hegemony was his word for "system".