“Finally, sweat-drenched and bloody, the attendees emerge from behind plates piled high with expensive viands and rare wines to claim in relieved voices that goodness has triumphed and freedom has been achieved through the bureaucratic accretion of windy, restrictive clauses. This Reuters article wants us to rejoice at this process, as if it were somehow connected to global prosperity – or as if those ultimately in charge (the organizers) are not the same individuals and groups that have been organizing wars and fear-based scarcity propaganda around the world for the past centuries and especially in the 20th century.”
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