kay wrote:Case in point this topic. If you only ever learned what the government taught you to learn, you wouldn't have even brought up this topic and there would be nothing to discuss.
This!
You can learn about anything you want... I haven't been in any kind of formal education for 8 years, yet I spend more time expanding my knowledge/mind now than I ever used to back then (school bored me, I just wanted to listen to music and play with computers until I was about 18 ). It's all about personal choice.... you are free to learn and believe what you want to learn and believe... but it's nobody's responsibility but your own to arrange that learning.
The State only has a responsibility to make sure that you survive in society. It doesn't have any kind of responsibility to make sure you have a proper understanding of your place in the universe or to teach you about alternative methods of government... that's up to you to find out about by going to libraries, reading books and using Google.
If you learn about new methods of government to such an extent that you want to see one implemented, you have all the power of democracy to help you - if you can convince a voting majority that your way is best, then you will get to have a shot about it.
There's a strong tendancy with anti-establishment types to accuse Democracy of being corrupt or biased. It's not perfect (and voting reform will help things), but people should be very careful of not just being against Democracy because they're in the
minority. Most people in this country are perfectly content with the status quo and really wouldn't like things like central government, the army, the police, state education, the NHS or the Highways Agency to disappear for the sake of a few thousand anarchists on the interbox.
Meus equus tuo altior est
"Let me eat when I'm hungry, let me drink when I'm dry.
Give me dollars when I'm hard up, religion when I die."
nowaysj wrote:I wholeheartedly believe that Michael Brown's mother and father killed him.