Archive for September, 2004

With corporate lobbying, there’s no democracy

Monday, September 20th, 2004

What happened to the individual? What happened to OUR United States?

“Fuck people,” is what I keep hearing. Suddenly we’re all thieves, mindless consumers, simple automatons and lost sheep in need of… something. Corporations ’sponsor’ politicians, influencing them to make policies that benefit the sponsor and only the sponsor. Just a bunch of worthless, greedy assholes with nothing better to do than to screw over his friends.

There’s more to life than money, but nobody seems to behave as if they knew this. Greed is a part of our nature, it’s how we’ve survived in hard times. But in America, this isn’t the case anymore. Yet we keep stuffing our faces when we’re full, stealing money when we have bank accounts with plenty in them, buying more and more and more but we never use what we buy, or we use too much of what we must conserve! What’s your fucking problem, lard-ass?

We’ve defeated nature. With technology we’ve broken the law of natural selection. We took the human emotion Compassion and perverted it into our own death. And who wants a planet full of retards anyway? Most of the ‘disadvantaged’ people live miserably. They have no control of their life, they just suck the life out of other people like the mindless leeches of a Cost Rican rainforest. And they really suck, trust me (been there, done that).

Besides taking the voting power away from everyone (and giving it to corporations), our policy-makers are being influenced by entire fucking countries. It’s possible, it runs in the same vein human nature does, and yes it does happen. China is having a good time with our ‘democracy,’ as is Russia. Do your own research, you’ll find plenty to entertain yourself with.

So I have a better idea.

Some fundamental facts first, however: the general public (that collective of individuals that live in America) either don’t vote at all or only vote based on charm and not competence (alarms should be going off already); the bigger the government, the slower it moves (this is a world of biological systems that obey the laws of physics); and money is their god. How can we make an effective government out of this? Well…

First, we define government. It should be responsible for these three tasks only: protecting our lives, property, and rights. It should be small and flexible, one that adapts constantly in order to survive change. Now I’ll explain how we should raise (much like a child) a proper government: Politicians should only be people who are prepared for it. That is, formally trained to work as government officials. They must be well-rounded individuals who understand the landscapes of political theory, technology, economics, biology (the world and everything on it ‘live’ as an organism, including corporations), environmental studies, astronomy, psychology, warfare… if they pass, they can become leaders of a nation.

This isn’t very refined and I skipped some details, but I’ll probably elaborate later. Honestly, the more I think about training gov’t officials, the more it makes sense. If you think I’m wrong, tell me why.