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The2ndWheel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-13-07 08:32 AM
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Does the fight against concentration of power increase
the concentration of power?

If people fight simply for access to the power they're fighting against, instead of an actual alternative to it, doesn't that increase what you were fighting against? Why else does the struggle seem to never go away?

For example, the various civil rights and women movements over time. I'm NOT, NOT, that's NOT as in NOT, NOT saying they weren't needed, but that they, I think, prove what I'm asking. They were fights against oppression, yet they've resulted in more concentrated power, since the system now has more energy pumped into it. Everyone now has a chance at the job(or whatever), but now the jobs are going out of the country. Everyone has the right to vote, yet we're represented less. Maybe those struggles started out as an idea for an alternative, but have they ended up putting more power in fewer hands?

I ask just in general, but also because of what everyone else is talking about; Don Imus. Will this end up giving fewer people more control? Will it allow a concentration of language(which itself has been created and molded over time as a means of concentrating power) by groups which you may or may not be in favor of?

I could be wrong, I could be looking at it the wrong way, but that's why I'm asking. The system that is fought against is unfair. It always has been, and it always will be. Yet who is fighting for a real alternative to it? Seems to me everyone just wants their piece of it. Is that worth it?
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