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<blockquote data-quote="Catulle" data-source="post: 8322819" data-attributes="member: 9942">...well, duh (to coin a phrase). See also strength limitations, and the art, the art, the art.We know this stuff, and we know to look at it critically. Literally every one of us is a beneficiary of slavery on some level, though the scales are massively skewed, the whole of modernity moving from serfdom through industrialisation to Coupland's microserfs has been built on unfree labour (arguably less so on Coupland, but his point was as much about social conditioning as economic bondage.)It's differences of degree as much as of type. And there's plenty of information out there about just how messed up our history was until very recently. The US had an (openly titled) Nazi party until 1983. We, in the UK, still and to our shame, still have a National Front.It's out there, it needs be opposed whenever (and to bring things back around to the point) it touches upon this niche interest we have, and for the same reasons as the journo-in-a-bar story Danny told earlier.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Catulle, post: 8322819, member: 9942"] ...well, duh (to coin a phrase). See also strength limitations, and the art, the art, the art. We know this stuff, and we know to look at it critically. Literally every one of us is a beneficiary of slavery on some level, though the scales are [I]massively[/I] skewed, the whole of modernity moving from serfdom through industrialisation to Coupland's microserfs has been built on unfree labour (arguably less so on Coupland, but his point was as much about social conditioning as economic bondage.) It's differences of degree as much as of type. And there's plenty of information out there about just how messed up our history was until [I]very[/I] recently. The US had an (openly titled) Nazi party until 1983. We, in the UK, still and to our shame, still have a National Front. It's out there, it needs be opposed whenever (and to bring things back around to the point) it touches upon this niche interest we have, and for the same reasons as the journo-in-a-bar story Danny told earlier. [/QUOTE]

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