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Old 05-14-2007   #6 (permalink)
Moniker42
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Default Re: Proper reasoning for proper voting for the proper canidates

I have no faith in the "democracy" of the United States any more. Admit that power and control is reserved for the few elite at the top of the pyramid! I think it's time, in today's society of hi-tech industry, education and stability that we considered other options rather than just rallying around the American flag with this weird idea of patriotism and loyalty to the ideas of people living hundreds of years ago in a completely different time. America was a beacon of democracy and freedom for its time but in this day in age it's falling behind.

What I'm saying is we need some sort of government that is actually OF the people and not just supposed to represent it. We need to look at and at least consider some form of (yea, you're all going to just scoff and call me crazy the minute you read the word) anarchism. Many leading great intellectuals, such as Noam Chomsky consider this the best solution to the problem. We're living in a time where we're told what to think, or at least it's heavily implied, we're marginalized and controlled by the media and we'll never get any kind of radical change - ridiculed by the popular opinion of people who haven't thought about the issues, merely been told what's "right" and went along with it unquestioning.
Anyways, I need to think about it. Come ask me in a few years time when I've done some political science and philosophy at University

Seriously guys, read some Noam Chomsky, watch some of his documentaries! He rarely discusses anarchism - it's not a central point of his. What Noam Chomsky does best is tell the truth. He's extremely well informed, and I don't see the documentaries as revolutionary and leftist propaganda - but just simply eye-opening and bringing to light a great number of simple truisms of our society that everyone should be aware of.

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