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Did you know that you can buy 500 “likes” for your business page for $5?
What is the point in that, I want people to like my business page because they like my business and they’re interested in what I post on there. Apparently that’s naive…I have two facebook accounts, one for real life and business, the other for JC people…one has 20 friends, the other 16.
I’m thinking of pruning my real life one…I’m not really interested in watching “friends” trying to portray this wonderful family life and conspicuous consumption for one-upmanship when I know it is so different from what their lives behind closed doors are really like. If I didn’t need an account to have a business page, I probably wouldn’t bother with it.
@panda12 wrote:
Surely those on here who are royalists are part of a pack?
A subservient pack who think that wealth and privilege is ok to come by through an accident of birth and not through merit and genuine hard work?
A pack that has such a low opinion of themselves they are happy to be “subjects.”
I don’t understand. You wouldn’t put up with being second class anywhere else, would you?
That’s the kind of thing that a member of the anti-royalist pack would say whilst convincing themselves that “democracy” would mean that no one got a free ride on the gravy train, that wealth was evenly distributed and that they would have as much say as anyone else in the running of the “democracy”.
You have formed emotional bonds in your family. As a parent there are times when you have provided leadership, maybe you have looked to your husband for leadership and he to you. You have provided for and protected your family. You have used your social skills to motivate, to cajole, to placate and calm. At times you will have fulfilled the Alpha role in your pack, at other times the Beta, and in your extended family maybe the Delta. Pack psychology…your family is your pack.
Don’t confuse pack psychology with the more negative forms of pack mentality and pack behaviour, pack psychology is not a bad thing.
Pssssst…your family is a pack :wink:
Wherever there is a social infrastructure there is a pack psychology whether it’s town or country. You may not think you are part of that pack psychology but unless you live a life completely apart from other humans then you will be part of a pack, the only thing that varies is the nature of the pack and the degree of your integration to the pack.
But it’s the innate desire for a pack-like structure that brings the need for hierarchies which in turn leads to concentrated wealth. If we, the human race, had no desire to lead or be led, to know our place within a social structure, where would the need for hierarchies come from?
Incidentally, I don’t think that’s a bad thing per se, without a pack structure and hierarchies the human race would not have progressed and achieved as much as it has even if that progress and achievement is a double-edged sword.
@panda12 wrote:
I am no one’s “Subject” and I want to live in a proper democracy. So it’s time to get rid of the House of Windsor who are an expensive and undemocratically elected waste of space and money, and turn this country into a true democracy.
There is no such thing as a “proper democracy” or a “true democracy”. It is a man-made concept thought up by the non-ruling classes, given lip service by the ruling classes to give the non-ruling classes the illusion that they have an equal say.
You can replace one man-made concept with another, you can call yourself a citizen rather than a subject (which is pretty meaningless in this day and age anyway) but you will still have a hierarchy and concentrated wealth no matter which model you adopt. It is the nature of the human beast and the inate desire to conform within a pack-like structure.
Roberta Flack
If I Were A Boy – Beyonce