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You just contradicted your own post though. You can't go to a barter economy (trade goods for goods) because then people would actually need to know how to do useful things in order to survive. Philosophy is not one of those useful things. Nobody is going to trade you food for a boring lecture on how the mind in the only thing we can surely know exists. It won't happen. You need something useful, like carpentry skills or engineering skills to be able to trade for food.

My evidence says it doesn't. I voted Obama and the majority in my redneck state voted McCain. My vote did absolutely nothing.

That's a bad way to look at things. Your vote counted, it was part of the vote, but your side lost. It counted. It might not have counted on the fdederal level, but it counted on the state level, and that's more important in our system.

You just contradicted your own post though. You can't go to a barter economy (trade goods for goods) because then people would actually need to know how to do useful things in order to survive. Philosophy is not one of those useful things. Nobody is going to trade you food for a boring lecture on how the mind in the only thing we can surely know exists. It won't happen. You need something useful, like carpentry skills or engineering skills to be able to trade for food.

Fishing isn't easy and neither is hunting. It's only "easy" now because the big bad evil corporations have given you the tools to make it easier.

Yes. Just because people knew how to do it doesn't make it easy.

Fishing isn't easy and neither is hunting. It's only "easy" now because the big bad evil corporations have given you the tools to make it easier.

it must be easier sitting thru lectures because you wouldnt be here if your ancestors did not learn to fish and hunt.
if u were left on an island with only nencessary tools to live, no technologically advanced products you probably wouldnt survive. fishing is easier with your hands and so is hunting. take a rock and throw it at your prey. cmon mr. engineer its not that hard to figure out. your country wants you to rely on its way of making food and medical remedies in order to control the population. the length of life over the past 500 years has risen, over the past 50,000 years has significantly dropped.