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1) Concerts.
Okay, let me get this straight, because it's a bit beyond my comprehension. You are willing to pay a premium to stand around and listen to a less-than-CD-quality rendition of something? With acoustics that are only any good if the artist is, in fact, lip synching, because otherwise it will either be ear-bleedingly loud and you won't make it out properly? And, here's the best bit - you will stand around in the middle of a huge crowd of people in order to do this?
2) Anti-commercialism/consumerism/corporatism
Yeah, actually, the reason that Microsoft is huge is because they do what they do better than the alternatives. Not true? Then the alternatives need to market themselves better. McDonald's and EA are also not evil and people need to get off their high horses every time a company becomes powerful, because aside from anything else the general whining about it makes the whole movement seem daft, which makes it difficult to investigate genuine problems.
3) The concept of nationality.
No, no, no. You do realize that nationalism is in itself at least as bad as racism and sexism, right? Only, at least in those cases there is some vaguely conceivable reasoning behind them? Here is a hint the geographic co-ordinates you happen to be born within do not have any inherent bearing on who you are. The fact that you might grow up in a different culture is hypocritical; A financier in London is going to have more in common with financiers in other major cities in other countries than with some fisherman at the arse end of Shetland. One world government is the only ethical, rational, and secure way forward.
4) Fear.
Some fear is sensible. It's smart to fear being blown up by nuclear bombs. It's smart to fear someone pointing a gun at you. It is not smart to fear ephemeral concepts of 'the other'. If I had one wish, I'd be tempted to wish for the feeling of fear to be utterly eliminated from the universe.
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