My eyes are ready to read if you ever feel in the mood to
nitpick over details; learning where I am (or might be) mistaken
is the only way I really learn to sharpen my wits and allows me
to be able to present more accurate arguments in the future -
but I appreciate the placeholder for "not quite but good enough
for government work"; that alone tells me I need to reread what
I threw up on the screen more critically tomorrow. And yes, I
agree with you.* I mean, it serves a good function; smoke and
mirrors and entertainment in general keeps a population content
and allows them to focus on the worries that the powers that be
believe they should be worried about. Whether or not they REALLY
should be worried about that stuff is another matter of course
:P Now the TPP?* Since I don't follow the news [haven't for
about 2-3 years], except for when someone mentions it (like you
just did), I wasn't even aware of it until just now.* So, I
looked it up. [I try to keep informed friends and let them
filter news for me.* If it's important to them, it's important
for me to know about.* Otherwise, I just end up getting excited
about things I can't do much about except sign a petition or
rant about]. After seeing it, no surprise.* Won't be a whole lot
of change for the USA as far as I can see, but for the other
countries, and especially those not involved, the changes will
be huge.* Multinational corporations getting even more "haves"
pits them against those not involved in the system, the lowest
level of entry appears to be having a patent or trademark of
some kind. Good for patent makers but it's not consumer
friendly.* But, as it's been noticed already, the USA is an
Oligarchy and has been for some time.* I just don't like that
mess being spread far and wide as well. Just yet more ways for
it to suck to be at this end of the spectrum.* Oh well.*
Hopefully people more dedicated to it will try to do something
to curtail its excesses at least.* One can hope.
