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What is the purpose of goverment, in your opinion?
Is it to protect the "rights" of the individual, as defined by the society?
Is it to improve the condition(subjective) of individuals?
Is it to improve the condition(subjective) of society?
I've been thinking about this alot latley. Like most of apolyton i've thought about these questions a great deal for many years.
I don't know the answer to the first question. I am unfortunatley really seeing little difference between the despots of the middle east, and the U.S. goverment.
The average member of both societies, effectivley has identical effect on the goverment(i.e. zero, or a very small number, aproaching zero). For all our freeomds in the U.S., in action we have no more control over our goverment then a woman in Saudi Arabia does.
You *COULD* run for office or try to form a political movement but without massive financial or political backing, you are doomed to failure.
The case in my point, is the anti war protests a few years ago. Millions showed up in some places for some of the larger marches.... fox isn't the only news network that simply *IGNORED* them entirley, not mentioning them.
*ALL* major news outlets, have one goal: Make money. They don't care about their social or moral obligations.
The only way to have an effect in the U.S. is to mobilize the masses and the only way to do that, is to use the media... which is owned, or influenced tremendously by the same who currently enforce the status quo.
You know what has triggered my epiphamy? The ordeal with cindy sheehan(sp?). The shmere campaign she is undergoing is proof enough to me that mass mobilization of the people, for our own best self interest(like holding our politicians responsible), is impossible.
Is it to protect the "rights" of the individual, as defined by the society?
Is it to improve the condition(subjective) of individuals?
Is it to improve the condition(subjective) of society?
I've been thinking about this alot latley. Like most of apolyton i've thought about these questions a great deal for many years.
I don't know the answer to the first question. I am unfortunatley really seeing little difference between the despots of the middle east, and the U.S. goverment.
The average member of both societies, effectivley has identical effect on the goverment(i.e. zero, or a very small number, aproaching zero). For all our freeomds in the U.S., in action we have no more control over our goverment then a woman in Saudi Arabia does.
You *COULD* run for office or try to form a political movement but without massive financial or political backing, you are doomed to failure.
The case in my point, is the anti war protests a few years ago. Millions showed up in some places for some of the larger marches.... fox isn't the only news network that simply *IGNORED* them entirley, not mentioning them.
*ALL* major news outlets, have one goal: Make money. They don't care about their social or moral obligations.
The only way to have an effect in the U.S. is to mobilize the masses and the only way to do that, is to use the media... which is owned, or influenced tremendously by the same who currently enforce the status quo.
You know what has triggered my epiphamy? The ordeal with cindy sheehan(sp?). The shmere campaign she is undergoing is proof enough to me that mass mobilization of the people, for our own best self interest(like holding our politicians responsible), is impossible.
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