Forum Post: Individualism, Creative Ideas and the Right to be Left Alone
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 21, 2011, 3:42 p.m. EST by Billsdestro
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Globalism is pressing on your neck. The singularity is truly near as we smell the stench of the geo-collectivist communist empire approaching from all sides. Don’t worry; the “government” will take you with them to heaven. They really do love your smiling faces… Unfortunately there are just too many to count…..Fall into line little sheep, it’s dinner time and the wolves await fresh company. WAKE UP!!
Too many to count....exactly.
Big bad wolf? Or, something more sophisticated using the image?
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Do you know the truth of the past? What does the flock run from? What do they run towards? Can they see? Can the ones falling cry a warning?
What makes sheep so confused no matter what?
geo-collectivist communist empire? What are you smoking?
Smell the coffee.
Communist what?
A collective is as far removed from communism as you can possibly get.
What are you smoking? Can you send me some?
Although collectivism is quite a ways off from egalitarianism and/or free government.
It's a step in the right direction, compared to dictatorial oligarchy.
Would you agree?
I think in many ways they are one in the same. Both deny people the right to think for themselves. Both seek to please the needs and or wants of a group as oppoped to the individual.
People need to learn to recognize the individual as the fundemental political entity and not the group.
Which takes you back to a one-vote-one-value system, which is how we ended up with the mess we have now.
The problem is representaive government. The voting sytstem is just a by-product, not the problem itself.
Can you elaborate upon that?
What do you consider to be the problem with representative government?
That they don't represent the people, but rather their corporate sponsors?
I do agree, but I seek your clarification of your position on the matter.
First, it is in reality ony possible for a person to represent themselves.
It is possible to consent for someone else to represent you in any matter, but in the case of our elected officials, everyone who did not vote for the electee is not being represented in government.
Second, our representatives do often listen to lobbyists before thier constituents. Even more often they listen to themselves before thier constiuents.
Representative government is obsolete and ineffective. We live in the 21st century. Direct government is now possible and desirable.
It's more than possibe and desirable.
It's going to be essential if we want to continue the way we hope to in this world.
The one percenters have identified themselves as public enemy number one.
How that plays out, particularly in light of the employment of mercenary forces, will be interesting, to say the least.
No wonder there's a push to take weapons off everyone but the mercs.
Exactly, but it has little to nothing to do with the economy or the functions of the economy.
This has nothing to do with income inequality or socialism or capitalism.
Money is a problem that eventually needs to be solved.
Direct government in a perfect world would be 100% independent of the economy in everyway.
The focus should shift away from the functions of the economy to the functions of government.
Nice sentiment.
What are you proposing on a practical level?
A Common Law Republic.
Specifically what will change?
How will the current status quo be altered, without the control phreaks taking action that would result in a popular uprising, that would be beat down with truncheons and mace, like earlier protests by #ows.
No more presidents, no more representatives, no more military, no more borders, no more affirmative action, no more restrictions on any human being participating in public business if they choose to do so.
Mass protest would also cease.
WTF are you talking about.
I agree with you. But you are pissing in the wind to anyone else here.