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<blockquote data-quote="Whither" data-source="post: 4384223" data-attributes="member: 76643"><p>On a related note, this afternoon I went to a special UPS package union meeting called for the benefit of us T-S drivers. One of the BAs gave the obligatory pitch for DRIVE, e.g., "supporting candidates that support us ... blah blah blah." I was much more interested to hear that he and others are close to organizing a building of XPO drivers. Politics is a dead-end for unions ... the only real gains we ever make come from demonstrations of our power, e.g., those rare occasions when workers show that they can be a tangible threat to the existing order ...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I would argue among those of us who enjoy a decent standard of living, it is our (relative) material success that usually enables vigilance to lapse into indolence. In other words, it is not a surprise that middle class lasted, what, 2 generations. Serious threats to the existing order are brought back into the fold by means of the carrot (the American Dream), then once these threats have been weakened, the stick enjoys free rein.</p><p></p><p>I will share a quote in return.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">“<em>My conception of freedom. --</em> The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it -- what it costs us. I shall give an example. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions. Their effects are known well enough: they undermine the will to power; they level mountain and valley, and call that morality; they make men small, cowardly, and hedonistic -- every time it is the herd animal that triumphs with them. Liberalism: in other words, herd-animalization.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">- Nietzsche</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whither, post: 4384223, member: 76643"] On a related note, this afternoon I went to a special UPS package union meeting called for the benefit of us T-S drivers. One of the BAs gave the obligatory pitch for DRIVE, e.g., "supporting candidates that support us ... blah blah blah." I was much more interested to hear that he and others are close to organizing a building of XPO drivers. Politics is a dead-end for unions ... the only real gains we ever make come from demonstrations of our power, e.g., those rare occasions when workers show that they can be a tangible threat to the existing order ... I would argue among those of us who enjoy a decent standard of living, it is our (relative) material success that usually enables vigilance to lapse into indolence. In other words, it is not a surprise that middle class lasted, what, 2 generations. Serious threats to the existing order are brought back into the fold by means of the carrot (the American Dream), then once these threats have been weakened, the stick enjoys free rein. I will share a quote in return. [SIZE=4]“[I]My conception of freedom. --[/I] The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it -- what it costs us. I shall give an example. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions. Their effects are known well enough: they undermine the will to power; they level mountain and valley, and call that morality; they make men small, cowardly, and hedonistic -- every time it is the herd animal that triumphs with them. Liberalism: in other words, herd-animalization.” - Nietzsche[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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