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To an extent, we haven't changed our human nature; we are vicious in a more technological fashion. Yes, people try to be more 'humane' or 'religious' or 'spiritual', however these are all just guises or fronts behind which boils a ferocious and strong ego, vying for some place in a world of many.
Tyler Durden said it best when he made his speech on all of us wanting to be rock stars and millionaires and celerities (it was actually Chuck Pahalaniuk), and slowly, people are getting pissed as they awaken to the reality that not EVERYONE can be Brad Pitt, BUT, everybody can be there own somebody. We just spend so much time, being someone else. A great, astute, observation made in the book "Wild at Heart"...don't spend your time looking OUTSIDE in the world at what you can do, but rather find something inside yourself that makes you come alive with passion and alive, because what the world needs is more people ALIVE, on FIRE, and burning with passion. Not aimless wanderers and tramps seeking SOMETHING beyond them. Creatin from within, not without.
But there's the lot of people who are resigned to just say "this is how life is, has been, and will always be" so we must accept the grotesqueries of life as they come. So we make technological progress, and go from chimps with sticks to chimps with bombs? Is that what humans are resigned to accept? Truly, 1984the book will become a reality.
Another point...and maybe it sounds like heresy, but Democracy might be the most current and effective form of government, however, it's not the most fair. Why? Because, the majority holds sway over the minority. So if the government, and the town you live in, feels its in the best interests of the MAJORITY to take your home under emiment domain, they can. And if the town feels its best to allow a strip club, or to disallow a strip club, they can, even if the split is 49% to 51%, they still can. BARELY a minority, and normally they majority is comprised of those who were swayed, seduced, and lobbied for by the people with special interests. Again, I dare say any political system can be PERFECT, but it's best to keep your ears and eyes open.
The purpose of government, in America, plain and simple is to protect our rights, as well the people's right to be protected from government. Anytime a group grows large enough, madness becomes a common trait. In individual and small subsects, it's not as common. And not as lethal. However, as displayed by history, religion in and of itself can motivate a good many people to kill, and think it's ok. This the same premise by which 1.5-6 million jews were killed during World War II.
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Again, it's even less democratic when the government really operates under the employ of the rich and elite, using the army to protect their special interests and assets, and merely uses the proletariat for their devious ends. Its shocking and surprising that people so willingly accept subjugation to someone else based solely on their net worth or political connections. To me an almost cynical standpoint has developed from this Dog Eat Dog mentality.
There are thriving tribes, albeit in third world countries, operating under different political systems, different cultural systems, and entirely different belief systems, demonstrating new ways of operating CAN work. However, those with their cushy seats would have it no other way. Why step down?
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Things have certainly changed from beginning times. Albeit, there was a lull, when the first settlers broke from England and developed the United States, when personal freedom as at its highest. The new settlers were a milieu of businessman and wealthy socialites, and cowboys and mercenaries, not afraid to roam the open wide ranges of the midwest and west. However, this bothers elite who seek concentration of wealth, since they can't control or reap rewards without boundaries. The US breaking from England was seen as a black eye. Never before in history would it be possible that anyone from any background could have something from next to nothing. But this lasted only so long, because eventually, the elites recognized the immense natural resources of the US, walked on over, and stuck some boundaries up, claiming hold to lands previously free and open.
Overtime, we needed some body of politic to rule this wild new terroritory and up came the US, seeking to protect "US" from "THEM", them being outside world powers who might conspire against us during this empire building phase, the last of it. Then the US turned inward, curtailing personal freedoms. The country was still fractured, settlers strewn about the land, some sitting upon billion dollar coal mines or oil wells. "Well, that's preposterous! Nobody can be wealthy by luck of sitting on land that might have value for all! We cannot have that!" And eventually carnegie, rockefellar and all such cronies began usurping wealth, combining conglomerates, and industrializing everything. Henry Ford, though it's been found he still sold to the Germans in World War II, was not as big a wealth usurper as others.
But still, this social experiment known as America was not good enough. They instituted Forced Schooling next, because the independent family unit was seen as a problem for a burgeoning nation. How could we have a sense of nationalism, if we are broken apart throughout the country, and if the family and God are more important than the land we live in? It was learned earlier people respected personal freedom and boundaries MORE than the nation they lived. For too long, countries warred, just because the king/prince/royal family felt it was BEST in the long-term for the country's inhabitants. Coming to America was a chance at each individual holding sway over their own destiny. Not for long though...
The fractioning of the settlers led to the early forefathers seeking ways to band together the entire lands of America into one unified country. This was done so through various wars, which called for NATIONAL pride, which is mistaken mostly as land/empire building. Overtime, the constant threat of outside attack and invasion kept the people on their toes, so that generation after generation would huddle together.
And finally, the hammer stroke would be adding education, which would indoctrinate children into the country from their first instance of consciousness. From the moment they could speak publicly, the kid would recite the Pledge of Allegiance. They would all also study the SAME EXACT thing, which presupposes ALL kids must learn the same thing, AND, that they learn in exactly the same way. I do not have to speak on the utter foolishness of such assumptions. Yet, people feel a sort of kinship when it comes to education, as if my speaking on education means I despise learning! Quite the contrary, I love learning and education! Love it. I am MORE productive when I seek to learn what I choose to know and use, than when someone asks me to memorize facts verbatim, turning me into an economic robot and unit of production, rather than a mere human being.
What is totally ignored is that the human nature spoken of here has subverted overt operations with covert operations. Mind Control is much easier, more effective, simpler, and least costly. And mind control is what you get, everyday of every year, from all aspects, via schooling, media, laws, propaganda, newspapers and newsoutlets, and the 'central computer' known as society.
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To me, there's no question someone under certain premises in America can achieve more, than you can anywhere else, BUT, the economic, legal, and social environment is more restrictive now, than it has been ever. More laws require the divulgence of private information. Financial and medical records are all but public with the passages of a few new laws. Anything considered an act of terrorism, which is suspect to the changing definition they lay upon you, can be jailed without an attorney is guilty and must be proven innocent. It's seen that we are the children of a supposedly benevolent father (the government) who seeks to protect us, but will also punish us if acting out of line. This, my friends, is not the dream fostered by the forefathers, or if it is, it is a most horrific idea of the most horrible nightmare ever created.
Perhaps we hold people, humanity, society to a higher ideal, and expect far too much. But shouldn't we? If not, are we not only animals, and perhaps far worse, since their compassion amongst each species is far greater than our compassion amongst our own kind.
A-Unit
