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The government works for us, not the other way round. There is no such thing as us being beat, there is such a thing as us not getting our shit together to do s

by kamjam 13y ago

The government works for us, not the other way round. There is no such thing as us being beat, there is such a thing as us not getting our shit together to do something about it.

w_t_payne 13y ago
The government most definitively does NOT work for us. Elections are a fig-leaf to give a semblance of legitimacy -- the politicians approved by the democratic process are little more than glorified PR spokespeople, whose nominal power is largely illusory; undermined and diverted by innumerable tricks motivated by callow mendacity and the insurmountable complexity of the parasitic institutions that they front: The vast majority of governmental power is unseen, unscrutinised, unelected and largely unaccountable. In most forms, government is a highly-evolved form of the protection scams run by organized criminals, and whilst hard-working and well-meaning public servants certainly do exist, my personal experience is that cynicism and greed rules the day as one approaches the more elevated levels of seniority. So when I say that we are beat, I mean it. We are never EVER going to change this system. These guys may be corrupt as hell; evil in a "unwitting", petty, careless and banal sort of way, but there is nothing that the rest of us can do about it. We have to acknowledge that they have won the game, and that we are beaten. Our purpose in life is now to shine and polish their boots and egos in equal measure: To make sure that their coffers are full and that their jobs are secure; that their mistresses and personal vices remain secret, and that their ability to moralise, preach and generally look down on the plebeian masses remains unimpeded; to grow their ability to exercise arbitrary personal power, and to make them more secure in their roost. This is not a conspiracy theory, because there is no explicit conspiracy to be seen, just the unrelenting grind of universally flawed human nature.

by kamjam 13y ago

The government works for us, not the other way round. There is no such thing as us being beat, there is such a thing as us not getting our shit together to do something about it.

w_t_payne 13y ago

The government most definitively does NOT work for us. Elections are a fig-leaf to give a semblance of legitimacy -- the politicians approved by the democratic process are little more than glorified PR spokespeople, whose nominal power is largely illusory; undermined and diverted by innumerable tricks motivated by callow mendacity and the insurmountable complexity of the parasitic institutions that they front: The vast majority of governmental power is unseen, unscrutinised, unelected and largely unaccountable. In most forms, government is a highly-evolved form of the protection scams run by organized criminals, and whilst hard-working and well-meaning public servants certainly do exist, my personal experience is that cynicism and greed rules the day as one approaches the more elevated levels of seniority. So when I say that we are beat, I mean it. We are never EVER going to change this system. These guys may be corrupt as hell; evil in a "unwitting", petty, careless and banal sort of way, but there is nothing that the rest of us can do about it. We have to acknowledge that they have won the game, and that we are beaten. Our purpose in life is now to shine and polish their boots and egos in equal measure: To make sure that their coffers are full and that their jobs are secure; that their mistresses and personal vices remain secret, and that their ability to moralise, preach and generally look down on the plebeian masses remains unimpeded; to grow their ability to exercise arbitrary personal power, and to make them more secure in their roost. This is not a conspiracy theory, because there is no explicit conspiracy to be seen, just the unrelenting grind of universally flawed human nature.