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To: bat-boy
"So you think the idea of people thinking for themselves instead of being sheep and having a mob mentality is socialism? Can you please explain how you come to this conclusion?"

I didn't mean to imply such, just the opposite. "If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking." -unknown"

Socialism assumes that everyone thinks alike. Since they don't, usually, at all, I thought the quote implies that most of the "sheeple" are not thinking, which they are not really allowed to do in a purely socialist society. The reality of socialism is that to get everyone "thinking alike," a central authority must tell them how to think.

Maybe I'm being more than unusually incoherent today. Sorry if I am, I still like the quote.

40 posted on 09/22/2002 7:55:58 AM PDT by Sam Cree
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To: Sam Cree
Ah, I see it now, after rereading the post. My apologies.
43 posted on 09/22/2002 8:01:18 AM PDT by bat-boy
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