Freitag, 7. November 2008

Violence has always been part of our economy --Alvin Toffler

"From the first paleolithic warrior smashed a rock into a small animal, violence has been used to produce wealth.
Taking preceded making.
It may be just a fluke, but Roget's Thesaurus, which devotes 26 lines to synonims of the word borrowing and 29 to lending, devotes fully 157 lines to alternative descriptions of taking - including "capture, "colonize", "conquer", and "kidnap", not to mention "rape", "shanghai", and "abduct"."
--Alvin Toffler "Powershift" Ch.4 "Force: the yakuza component" "Blood and show-money"

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