RE: Fox News Needs to Be Shut Down
December 29, 2014 at 9:43 pm
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2014 at 9:43 pm by ManMachine.)
(December 25, 2014 at 9:46 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:So much for government for the people.
That was bullshit when Lincoln said it.
We willingly elect governments to ensure societal controls are maintained. By definition government will control 'the people', if that means lying to the people then I can only say, well what do you expect?
Mass control clearly does not work, and can never work. I believe it is time we considered government on a much smaller scale. It seems to me a 'tribal' (for want of a better word) society is not necessarily a bad idea - small groups with local government - and there is plenty of scope to debate what it would look like in a modern world.
In the UK the trend is toward de-centralisation, it's not a huge leap to take this to the next level. It was - after all - down to an effete royal line that the Kingdoms were United in the first place.
We need fresh ideas to revitalise our aged political structures, anarchy is clearly not a grown-up option, the left and the right are fragmenting and pissing on their own shoes trying to politicise issues that are important to modern people (such as environmentalism). If we are going to make a change then let's be bold in our debate.
MM
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"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
