Egypt, Twitter, and the Collapse of Top-Heavy Societies

[rich]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Ian Livingston
<igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Needs? I think food, shelter, safety, education, health and employment
> are indispensable. No nation can survive for long when the majority of
> people lack these basics. Do some people benefit unduly from programs
> that offer these basics? Sure. Do some people benefit unduly from the
> absence of these programs? Sure. Which leads to the healthier nation?
> One could do worse than ask the Canadians.
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all this aside though you make some fine points is the most important
one not mentioned: love. the state can never deliver on that one. even
if we had a perfect government/minder/ of benevolence the stark fact
is  we all seem to be missing the most important element to human
existence at one time or another.
what monsters that condition has enabled
I would argue there is no such thing as a healthy nation when dropping
the sheer accounting of populations and diseases