Discovering America as It Is
Where is the Resistance?
Posted on Sunday, May 16 @ 10:00:23 CDT
From: Harvey Rosetti
The most important part of government's role in a civilized society should be to ensure that everyone has an equal right to a decent life.
Where is the Resistance?
from a book by Valdas Anelaukas,
"Discovering America as It Is"
An answer to the problem of poverty in America would be to change the system or at minimum, regulate it, as has been done in Europe. But people here in America are afraid to do this, because as the U.S. Declaration of Independence itself said that people are "more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
There are very few Americans who distribute political pamphlets or speak on street corners because most Americans work for capitalist employers. Most of those who have some understanding of the situation are also aware that to speak their full minds might result in losing their jobs. Others would argue that their resistance is directed through existing channels for changing the system, by impacting the electoral or legislative processes through lobbying, changes in party policy platforms, etc. We shall examine the effectiveness of this route, below.
But as for the credulous victims of American ideology - how can one hope to free the slave who believes his chains to be part of the natural order? Assuredly, not before that belief has been vanquished. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe put it brilliantly many years ago: "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Such is an ideological slavery...
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Posted on Sunday, May 16 @ 10:00:23 CDT
From: Harvey Rosetti
The most important part of government's role in a civilized society should be to ensure that everyone has an equal right to a decent life.
Where is the Resistance?
from a book by Valdas Anelaukas,
"Discovering America as It Is"
An answer to the problem of poverty in America would be to change the system or at minimum, regulate it, as has been done in Europe. But people here in America are afraid to do this, because as the U.S. Declaration of Independence itself said that people are "more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
There are very few Americans who distribute political pamphlets or speak on street corners because most Americans work for capitalist employers. Most of those who have some understanding of the situation are also aware that to speak their full minds might result in losing their jobs. Others would argue that their resistance is directed through existing channels for changing the system, by impacting the electoral or legislative processes through lobbying, changes in party policy platforms, etc. We shall examine the effectiveness of this route, below.
But as for the credulous victims of American ideology - how can one hope to free the slave who believes his chains to be part of the natural order? Assuredly, not before that belief has been vanquished. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe put it brilliantly many years ago: "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Such is an ideological slavery...
Read further under:
http://g0lem.net/portal/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=45
Informant: CHAI
Starmail - 16. Mai, 22:46
