why politics are stupid
in case you were wondering.
people talk about politics alot. they say stuff like 'Bush is running the country like a drunken 14-year-old on a turbo-charged riding lawn mower' and 'all the unpatriotic liberal terrorist sympathizers should be shot and their bodies dumped in the Canadian wilderness, somewhere there's no oil.' they talk about job rates and deficits and whether or not gay people are corrosive by nature. they talk about alot of stupid shit.
the problem is that everyone basically is addressing the question 'what shall The Man do?' rather than the much better question 'how can we get rid of The Man and make things work better?' it's the difference between working for the advancement and enlightenment of humanity or working for the proper maintenance of the status quo.
honestly, which sounds like more fun to you?
"well there ain't no use in crying / 'cause it will only only drive ya mad."
people talk about politics alot. they say stuff like 'Bush is running the country like a drunken 14-year-old on a turbo-charged riding lawn mower' and 'all the unpatriotic liberal terrorist sympathizers should be shot and their bodies dumped in the Canadian wilderness, somewhere there's no oil.' they talk about job rates and deficits and whether or not gay people are corrosive by nature. they talk about alot of stupid shit.
the problem is that everyone basically is addressing the question 'what shall The Man do?' rather than the much better question 'how can we get rid of The Man and make things work better?' it's the difference between working for the advancement and enlightenment of humanity or working for the proper maintenance of the status quo.
honestly, which sounds like more fun to you?
"well there ain't no use in crying / 'cause it will only only drive ya mad."
posted by the autophobe at 10:13 PM
2 Comments:
First i'd like to say that presupposing that anarchy is not an option is needlessly pessimistic. it's just that no one's pulled it off well before.
Now to more directly address what you're saying, i will clarify with this:
any societal change, on some fundamental level, is utterly likely to fall into one of two categories. one type seeks to indicate what is allowed and not allowed for people to do. the other type seeks to manipulate circumstances so that everyone can do what they want and still have things be fairly pleasant and friendly.
I prefer the latter.
i would also add that it seems likely to me that undoing the establishment will be more of a side-effect of enlightenment, rather than a step along the way.
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