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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corinth" data-source="post: 313977" data-attributes="member: 497">I do, and it's not what you think it to be.You too can serve the corrupt, ruling elite of the world by joining these institutions.  Excuse me for not wanting to be part of some wanna-be Evil Overlord's Legions of Terror or Trusted Lieutenants.That's easy enough.  Lose your income and get evicted.  It just happened to the younger sister of one of my people, and she's got a baby to feed- in rural Iowa.See above about membership in an institution; illegal as it is, the result is the same.You don't make it to the top or stick with it until retirement and remain a "good guy".  Not in those professions, or in any of the others you listed, because they are intertwined with the political establishment in all nations and they are either evil and corrupt to the core or well on their way.It doesn't matter unless it's either profitable or expedient to do so, and right now it's neither; until either happens, those with the power to control such things hamstring all such activities.I have one woman to guard (because I owe her my life), another to destroy (because she tried to take it) and a third to find (because I own my mother a debt that I can only pay forward, via giving her grandchildren).  Until the first is out of my hands, the second is six feet under and the third bears my heir I am stuck here.  This life is as interesting as I can stand, and it's not going to get any better any time soon.How about a life where all paths to prosperity and all means of serving one's fellow men are not bound to serving the corrupt, evil ruling/owning class that's destroying the planet that we all live on while feeding the masses mind-numbing propaganda at the same time?  We live in Huxley's Brave New World, and there is no way out now that doesn't involve a goodly amount of fire, pain and massive slaughter across the board.  I just hope it does happen before the military contractors get their wish and finish work on the HK drones; once the establishment has a robot army it's over for the rest of us- we haven't any super-human pretty boy mecha pilots to save our collective asses.At least I control every aspect of my life, and not just whether or not to prostrate myself before my Neo-Guilded Age corporate masters today or tomorrow.  It may be nasty, brutish and short; it's still mine, and I am no one's bitch.</blockquote>

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