Government

I know I probably sound paranoid.
But it really confuses and disturbs me to think that
the government can just fly over head in airplanes,
and just spray poison day after day, and nobody
says anything about it. It's not even on the news,
and I'm pretty certain that it's not good for people...
Swine flu was a complete scam and mostly nobody knows that,
And the people who do know are okay with what they are doing.
It bothers me that not as the government, but as people, they
can just poison and control us however they want.
I'm tired of watching people in Iran die and America isn't bothered
at all that we're causing most of it. They're spending billions of dollars
there when they don't even want us there, not to mention theres
millions of people who need help in our own country.
It's the duty of the youth to challenge corruption.
It sounds cliche, but people need to open their eyes
and we need to take a stand.

 

I was anti-government once. And I realized that I cannot win.
They are too powerful. They are like a giant plague. We're all gonna die from it anyway.

 

mangs. that sounds like some shit 2pac would say.. I elect u as our new leader. yous a bad dude, mrmuds..

 

If people would pull their heads out of their asses, and stand together,
we could totally beat those greedy bastards.

 

Hey man. I'm all for it. I absolutely have no respect for these thieves, the real criminals of america. I would love to see something done just as much as you.

 

Food (ya, food, as in REAL food, as in Fuck the FDA) is making me more and more anti government. Every day it gets worse for me. I used to be a good little liberal girl who thought the government was looking out for our well being lawl >=|

 

good luck with that. Just wait til they are beating down your door with search warrants for shit you didn't do, and intimidating you. Trust me, I know all too well. They can't be beat. They have turned most of our generation apathetic with ease. We care more about who gets arrested in Hollywood than real issues. It's all a grand scheme. Not a damn thing we can do about it.

 

you can change you. prepare for the bad times, because someone has to pick up the pieces when society crashes down. the more of us that pay attention to whats actually happening the better equipped and warned we will be. accept the fear, and move past it. start acquiring skills, those will be a comfort against the fear. eat healthy, get in shape. plant a garden, take a class on small engines. as a consumer throw your 'meager' weight around. contact companies about msg in their food, or GMO products (if you are against them, of course). if you make a point of asking the manager to carry more organic food, they will probably look into it.

the important thing is not to panic. do your research, dont just let the documentaries scare you. they are good at that. i usually space my documentaries out with George Carlin and Monty Python, and other such brilliant folks. some things are bigger than you and me, but to just say 'theres nothing we can do' i think is giving up. i dont give up, thats just how i was raised. and boy, i keep getting handed the shit end of the stick in life, sometimes you gotta grab it anyway, and you gotta hold on tighter because its all slippery. strengthens your grip on reality.

 

post moar mudmaster . ..

 

but that's so much harder than bitching about the man on the Internet, man.

You crazy.

 

Government isn't actually evil.

 

I see no other category other than pure evil to group them into.

 

the government is not inherently evil, but it is easily infiltrated by it. it is so easy to manipulate a human mind (ladies are very good at it) so it is easy for money grubbing self-serving evil dickwads to slap on a charismatic air and infiltrate the government. im not referring to recently, its a long standing tradition by now. remember Mr Smith Goes to Washington? i love that movie. corruption is not new news. its old news regurgitated.
but inherently it is not evil. if we had real people in there, like teachers and firefighters and mechanics and social workers and other actual people then at least wed get some ideas and problem solvers. politicians are usually lawyers, who specialize in proving their point, their opinion, their side. they are inherently against cooperating with the opposition! no wonder bipartisanship is so hard to achieve, its a bunch of dicks insisting that they are bigger.

obviously a government chamber full of people who are clueless about government's inner workings would take awhile to figure out protocol (in a fictitious 'replace all the monsters with everyday folks' situation) but i bet stuff would really get talked about. we are different, and if we would just suck it up and be HONEST about that, and the need to allow and protect the right to be different wouldnt it be a better place? if you could say "i do/ do not believe in abortion, but i recognize that not everyone believes as i do" to protect every belief (the personhood issue is a good example of this, i recently had to explain that i believe your person, your person-ality is made up of your experiences. my 4 year old is more of a person to me than his twin, who died at 3 months of age. there is just so much more TO my four year old. human, his twin was, alive, but person-ship is recognized by others. my dead son is only a person to you through my relationship to him. he wasn't a person to anyone until he was recognized by them. george carlin said "life is a continuous process, it just keeps rolling along. anyway, i digress)

vote for me. im brutally honest, and if im bullshitting you, i'll be honest about that too.
im gonna go find Mr Smith Goes to Washington. and watch it. and probably cry

 

Maybe not, but the people who run it are crooked as fuck.

 

I always picuture the government as some tall really fat guy in a suit, like the same guy i picture when i listen to dogs by pink floyd...

where the fuck did goverment come from? what person came along one day and said okay i make up all the rules and then had alot of people with weapons to help enforce them? how'd they convince them to enforce the rules? how in the fuck did all these governments come about?>

 

probably started out logically. group of people living/ working/ dying together, lifes a clusterfuck if nobody is in charge. would have started out matriarchs and patriarchs, and elders with life experience and leadership skills, would have helped guide and shape the younger generations. sharing experience, resolving disputes etc. then you add in people who like power, who have 'inherited' power, who want to keep that power in the family regardless of the personality traits of their offspring. human nature gets involved, more people means more power exerted over them to keep them in line... on and on.

but the original government is one most of us were born into naturally. a dual party government, with one party being slightly more powerful on the decision making. AKA, mom and dad. they make the rules, they lay down the law. punishments can be incurred for disobeying the rules. some of us have a different makeup of parental figures, but a family is a government. the children are governed by the parents.

so, how did your mom get you to clean your room? how did she 'convince' dad to whup your ass for not obeying? and how many different opinions are there as to the appropriate way to raise children?
and thats how all these governments came about. in one way or another, IMO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi

 

Start investing in guns before the 2nd amendment disappears. Also do the same for a vest.

 

I see our society as sick. The absurdly unequal distribution of wealth isn't payed attention to as a serious problem because the people creating the narrative of our society our good about focusing our attention on something else. Wars which were not in our interest were started and continued. The bullshit right left dichotomy and the vapid media.

I'm leaving the country and traveling for a few months (or years) to get some perspective. I won't be able to completely change my society, but I'd like to be more at peace with it and positively influence the people around me.

I would suggest that people suggesting that the government is pure evil and to pick up guns for the coming revolution look for some perspective as well.

 

people cant even pick up a snow shovel...guns, hahah yeah .. :smilielol5:

 

All this is completely true and I couldn't have possibly put it any better... but here's the thing... our society is sick in this way because we demanded it be that way... but ceding our place in the process and divesting our time in politics in favor of more stuff... bigger houses, more toys and the resource consuming quest for that elusive and intangible quantity called status as defined by a given set of retail commodities which changes as soon as a saturation sales level is met. It's a slow dance between the consumer and retail business sector designed not so much to distract us but to separate us from our money.

The distraction bit is just a happy consequence of cultivating what is analogous to a vegetable garden whose cash crop is... well, cash. We're just the plants whose orderly rows are our routines in life as defined by our jobs and trivial pursuits meant to perpetuate the illusion that we are happy- among other things. The disease is a bit (well, maybe a lot) like alcoholism where it begins with a decision to follow a certain path.

The clincher is the fact that nothing can really victimize us without our permission and cooperation. That has been one of the toughest truths for me to swallow.