Lets face it, the government is shit. there has to be a way to fix it. Now i have my ideas of how to restart, and create something better. For example. we could buy our own land, and live like the Omish folk and live off the land. Or we could all stop working and for the government to change. How do you guys feel it should be done?
Governments are like stew. Unless they're stirred up from time to time, scum forms at the top. --Ed Abbey
If everyone stopped working and paying taxes they would impose stricter laws, and impose the will of the police force for those who do not comply. Peaceful resistence only works if their is so many people standing up for their rights that law enforcement becomes overwhealmed.
I believe that government power should be subtracted from the federal and given more to state level. I think government still has responsability to monitor the economy and law but to be very conservative about it. We should have laws to protect others and property and rights, but allow people to do with themselves what they will, that means legalizing all drugs. The state govts should also establish operations in which to increase job opportunities.
Secret societies corrupt the whole world, and all the governments (nearly all at least) are in on that fact. And are also in with the various secret societies. I have been psychically attacked by them because I constantly speak out about them and their plans for New World Order. They won't succeed however because nature is ahead of them. They use occult, though, and drain energy from psychics like myself and they do much damage to innocent people - that is what I dislike.
These corrupt people give out the orders but they don't carry them out. They get the mangerial class below them to do their dirty work. We should be focused on the people that force us to pay taxes, or the people that throw us in a jail cell when we refuse to follow one of their corrupt laws.
education is key to. We should be teaching the children how to recognize manipulative and corrupt people that act like their on our side. If we throw out these bunch of mafia controllers another group will take their place. Slowly taking over the system once again.
Agreed. Most importantly what should be taught to kids of all ages is HOW TO SURVIVE in the wild, in wilderness, in nature's land (instead of how to get to the top floor in this man-made world that we built to "put nature in her place" so to speak.). God bless everyone, regardless of their not so loving and caring attitudes and desires. We should teach, and never try to hurt others. <--- We should also teach that to the kids AND adults.
It's estimated that 1 out of every 100 people is a sociopath, and 1 out of every 500 is a psychopath. This isn't just a problem from the top, it's a thread that runs deep throughout all sectors of humanity. Their are gangs and maphia's in the lower parts of society, who I'm sure would all be clammering for top spot when the system is brought down.
Yeah, I guess that was kind of contradictory. We don't need to label ourselves, but I guess you can use them to describe certain types of people. Even the sociopaths and psychopaths will have their own distinct personalities, and it's a fact that they make up a certain percentage of society.
Well, Timothy Leary had the right ideas about the internet being able to change society. I think we should run government through internetworking. An idea I have for a political party is to have a representative who makes all their decisions based off of internet polling from the citizens in their area. It wouldn't matter if people didn't vote for the party. They'd still be able to participate and register a name and ID to participate. It would be the only political party to do that. The way I see it, you can't hold a representative accountable when they're just a representative. They can always just say "well events changed and I had to break my promises", If they went off of polling and were held accountable to legislate off of polling, the democracy would be more direct and would more accurately represent the will of the people. A representative should fulfill the role of legal adviser and expert, not act as a king or nobleman with a term limit and piece of paper that deems what your natural rights are as citizens. We could change government in a really fundamental way now if we wanted. I don't really like arguments about scaling down government. I think state government can be just as oppressive as federal government. Just look at Jim Crow and slavery. Individual citizens can even be oppressive. After all, the majority (at least the white male majority that was allowed to vote) endorsed and protected systematic racism. For democracy to work, people need to stop viewing others in terms of political stereotypes, which ideologically driven political parties only facilitate, and get to actually know other people. The party line should be "think for yourself" and "listen to other people". Political parties, as they are now, force you to approximate your beliefs. With direct democracy based off polling, there'd be no need for compromise. People need to learn to understand other perspectives. I think there's potential in the internet for this as well, though sometimes assholes on here (the internet, not this website specifically) shake my hope in it. The internet is really the stepping stone for a global community and true democracy, or at least it can be. One day I think we'll be telepathically linked to it and, at will, be able to interface other people through linked consciousness. When people realize were one consciousness, subjectively experiencing itself, and not just bits of separate protoplasm directed like puppets by random chance, then I think the world will be a lot better. Psychedelics, as well as the emerging age of cybernetics, hold a potential for this. Now I know someone is gonna point out that "not everyone has access to computers" In that case, we should just use more tax money to buy computers at public libraries, and people should volunteer to assist the elderly.
I thought it was interesting that rape was virtually non-existent in Native American cultures, many of which had Shamanistic beliefs and feminine concepts of the divine. When white women were captured by Indians it was unheard of them to rape them. When Indian women were captured by whites, rape was very common place. I think the consumer culture we live in, which is just a descendant of colonial culture, has elements that encourage socio-pathic behavior. Its all about encouraging a materialistic outlook where happiness is thought to come from how much stuff you own, not what kind of relationships you have with other human beings. You'll die happy if you have a lot of things. That's the consistent message I get from the media. I don't hate the culture I was born into, no more than I'd hate another culture if I was born into it. I think some aspects are good, but I'd like to learn lessons from other societies and incorporate them into my own life. Narrow thinking isn't a good way to survive when things are changing more in one year than they have in the past 1000 years. I just saw a video of some dude with a cybernetic hand like Luke Skywalker and some nano-technology that converts heat into electricity. Times are a Changin' exponentially.
