I have recently returned to something that I thought I had given up forever. I made a comment on Facebook about a politically themed post. I know I shouldn’t have. It usually ends with me complaining to my equally socialist therapist about the idiocy of fifth columnists, the fourth estate, and libertarian third wheels. Luckily it was a post supporting the wonderfully progressive Bernie Sanders who has recently announced his canidacy for president. Here is my verbatim overly long comment responding to the need for change in the American government. Some argued the need for swift action, others lauded the need for people to join in the democratic process, I added my unique point of view that gained a total of one like (which I am very proud of). Enjoy and I’ll try to post more in the future: The trouble with America and most liberally founded states isn’t that people don’t care, it’s that they are put into systems that are remove any sense of true agency. A hyper individualist culture with an overwhelming sense that those who can succeed will do so of their own efforts. (There are so many good quotes but I’ll summarise for the moment) There is no true sense to improve the country put into anyone. Children grow up wanting to be doctor’s to make money, to be prestigious and in many cases to help people. Nobody grows up with role models like FDR or Wilson. The brightest minds of the incumbent generation are more focused on their projects to achieve immortality in their work and to be fulfilled. They have little or no desire to change anything. These same systems allow the same people to get elected over and over again to do nothing except make fiscally idiotic decisions that make enough people happy to get them to have another round of continued shenanigans. There is no method for change that is accepted. Protests are bemoaned by quasi intellectual propaganda propagators and stolen by the fattened culturally intolerant communities that are in large parts victims of the systems failing to provide adequate education.
The problem with fixing this beautiful chaos is that it’s not broken. It works perfectly. The majority of people don’t see the greater picture, they get upset only when things affect them personally and may momentarily band together to make sure their internet is marginally faster or that their water isn’t flammable or poisoned. The entire process is totally sustainable. The only thing that is unsustainable is the ability to change. We correct one thing and we hang up our hats and retire safe in the knowledge we’ve helped the world a tiny bit. Petitions and calling your congressman or members of parliament and what not may do something, but that is not enough. The Kafkaesque systematic bureaucracy these systems are founded on, block all true innovation. Any change that does happen is about ten or more years too late. Human culture is evolving at an ever increasing pace, but our politics remain stagnant. I won’t say democracy is failing because I’m a staunch advocate of it, but I will say that our governments are failing in the very things that makes democracies democracies. Americans are a people enraptured by their constitution. It’s a lovely document. It creates a very workable method of government in the late 18th century. I heavily contest with the idea that a 226 year old document be stuck too so rigidly. I’m not saying that you have to be France and have a new constitution every decade or so. But society changes and so should government. Finding a socialist who agrees with every detail of the Communist Manifesto is rare, yet the constitution is the defining document in terms of creating, enforcing, and evaluating every aspects of politics. How many amendments do you need before you might as well have just written a new one. There is no system for overall change in the American way of life, there is simply is not and something needs to change if the government is to ever again truly serve the needs of it’s people.
A Well Organised Asylum 