When in the course of posthuman events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the bonds that tie them to the human species, a decent respect to the opinions of sentient creatures requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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Attempts to counteract the negative effects of democracy have been consistently enacted, but in the name of democracy, in such a way that obfuscates the elitism entailed in these decisions and winds up making its paradoxical denial and disavowal the price of real participation.
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The EDCs of the world have refused to grant opportunity as a scarce resource that fairness would dictate should be given to those of intelligence and gumption, not those of a certain class; that granting it to those with intelligence and gumption is indeed economically indicated.
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General hatred of economic principle has driven the leadership of the most successful countries to institute policies designed to randomize outcomes, but instead these policies create barriers to entry and disenfranchise individuals who cannot navigate bizarre shibolleth networks
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Further, this hatred of economic fact and principle has destroyed grounds for real, meaningful discussion and policy. Further, it has disenfranchised intelligent minorities and added to disenfranchisement of minorities by leading to backlash against the promotion of incompetents.
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The EDCs of the world have built their economies on both the preferences and abilities of the mob in such a way that has lead inexorably to a nearly purely consumer based economy where substantive advances in science and technology grow steadily more meager, pathetic, and niche.
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Political insistence on mob rights to determine policy on subjects like global warming, abortion, and countless others has led to a mass dilution of discourse, a memetic race to the bottom in which the force of bad ideas barely worth the name infinitely trumps that of good ones.
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Furthermore, the EDCs of the world have enacted barriers to entry and diminished investment through bad economic and monetary policy and social disincentives, shutting off a traditional escape valve by which intelligence seeks equilibrium in a total socioeconomic system.
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Rights have steadily been taken away, and laws have increasingly become dead letter artifacts allowed to exist principally as barriers behind which increasingly cronyistic and criminal entities can hide, including an increasingly criminalistic state.
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Every stage of these oppressions has been documented with redress petitioned for: Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. Nor have we been wanting in our attentions to our human brethren. We have warned them of possible outcomes to their continued...
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...infringement of our rights. The response has been retaliation by curtailing further rights. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kinship as humans to disavow and help overcome these grievances.
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They have been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold every other social race, enemies in war, in peace friends.
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