(July 25, 2017 at 9:24 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Since you no longer have a soul you should consider becoming a politician. None of them have souls so you will have a lot of company.
Uggggg, that simply is not true. In the west all parties bitch about government, but what other alternative is there? You either have theocracy like Iran or Saudi Arabia, which also have governments, Or you have fascist 1 party states like China or 1 party states AND family rule like Cuba and the Castro family or North Korea and the Kim family. No government is just as bad like Somalia which is basically ruled by rich gangs.
Our species evolved to be social and power structures will always form when a void is created by conflict. No system is perfect and there will always be greedy people who seek power, but to claim that every politician is evil is simply bullshit. In the west we have, WHEN it is used and when citizens care to get involved, we have concepts of checks on power and the idea of anti monopoly so that no aspect of society, public, private, class, religious or political can gain a lopsided monopoly.
If you are going to complain about the current state of politics, blame the billionaire class and their global corporatism pumping money into politics to sell the bullshit idea of austerity. But don't claim there are no politicians at all that are not trying to fight that.
I do want government. I want police, libraries and public schools. I want regulations that protect water and food and speed limits too. The only way those things happen is through government. So the only argument really, isn't that all politicians are bad, but what long term policies are good or bad.
