Tuesday, November 23, 2010
The idea that government can be fixed, is a red herring.
Knowing that government is operating just like a government and knowing that it isn't broken is why people like Glen Beck are no danger to it. All that money and energy is is going to waste trying to fix something that isn't broken. Our republic was predicted to fail in around a two hundred years. Well here we are. I don't think that it took a genius to make that prediction. The dirty little secret is that government isn't broken. Its the freeman vs the slaver.
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Speaking of Glen Beck, I just read his book "The Overton Window." His logic is so sound, yet he doesn't use it when making his own conclusions. He illistrated how the government uses scare tacticts in order to "nudge" the public into accepting increased government power that they would not have accepted before the scare tactic was used. For example: 9/11 got people to accept the patriot act and increased security at airports when they would not have accepted these changes otherwise.
ReplyDeleteYet Glen Beck is afraid of terrorists... He thinks the terrorists have infiltrated Mexico and now wants to cross the border to attack us with exploding tacos.
He also talks about periods in history where the constitution was thrown out the window and people were being arrested and put in jail or internment camps without a trial. Yet he worships the first president to do this, the first president that changed our government from a loose confederation of states into one country under a big and powerful central government. Can anyone remember who that was? Abraham Lincoln.
We are taught from such a small age to worship historical figures as being so wise and intelligent, all knowing, and faultless. George Washington could not tell a lie and refused the crown 3 times. Lincoln freed the slaves. Most people think Ben Franklin was a president! I wonder where they got that idea?
Children get told at a certain age that a lot of the stories and myths they were told are in fact "make believe." Santa and the Easter bunny aren't real, but someone forgot to tell them that police officers are people, not super heroes, government officials are no smarter than the average 8th grader (just have more experience, especially in the lie department) and that this country is not free.
Government, just like Santa, is a state of mind. If you believe in Santa, you actually HEAR the hooves of the reindeer as his sleigh lands on your roof on Christmas eve. Same with government. If everyone would just stop believing in it, it would truly disappear.