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This point cannot really be overstated. It is quite sad that we've reached a point where technology could empower us to lift up the state of humanity, but we'r
by bcg1 11y ago
This point cannot really be overstated.
It is quite sad that we've reached a point where technology could empower us to lift up the state of humanity, but we're deploying it in a way to keep humanity in subservience of the state. Of course... there is no such thing as a government; it is just people oppressing other people[0]
Terrorism is broadly defined as using threats and violence to coerce a civilian population for political purposes... when the government grants itself the right to indefinitely detain dissidents and declares that its own territory is a battlefield (NDAA 2012) and authorizes itself to deploy propaganda domestically (NDAA 2013), and does things like threaten economic collapse and martial law if the citizens won't pay $1 trillion with no accountability (TARP bailouts)... who are the real terrorists under that definition?
[0]: http://genius.com/Krs-one-what-kinda-world-lyrics http://genius.com/Krs-one-what-kinda-world-lyrics
- frandroid 11y agoI love KRS-One as much as the next guy but it's a meaningless statement at best.
- bcg1 11y agoThe meaning I derive from that statement is that terms like "government" and "the state" refer to things that do not exist in the collection of mass, energy, and quantum whatevers that we call "the universe"... they are simply concepts in the minds of people, and are not capable of interacting with "the universe" except through the people in whose minds they exist. Thus it is never "the government" oppressing people... it is people oppressing people. Similarly it is never "the government" helping people... it is only people helping people. The moral and/or ethical implications of this concept are significant, as it "pierces the veil" of the idea that the actors are somehow absolved from their actions because they are in the name of "the government".