really? join the army to fight socialism? i cant tell you the slew of reasons that i have issues with that entire statement. there are a more than a couple though. for one, i suppose i am one of those bleeding hearted liberals. i dont feel like a liberal, but what i feel seems to make me one. i believe that everyone should be treated equally. i believe that everyone should be payed the same (let me clarify that. set up a base payment, say 30k-150k differential salary based on the amount of education required to perform a specific task. have a bottom and a top, but put them in a reasonable level of each other so that it will mimic economic equality as much as human greed will let it.). i know it sounds a bit confusing, but im also trying to describe a complex set of social and governmental ideals into short and concise sentences. not an easy thing to do while trying to be specific.
the United States of America (notice that this is not a Democracy, because though we do have a lot of oppression of the Majority over Minority, our legal system keeps it "under control") has its share of issues. its share of contradictions and confusing statements. there are a lot of overbearing things that our government does that we blindly ignore, if simply because we feel that they are justified in doing so. in turning our heads away from these glaring and bothersome occurrences we lend credence to their subjugation of us. if you do not believe that this is true go to the store and buy some medicine that is not FDA approved. get on a plane that doesnt have a flight plan logged with FAA . listen to the radio or watch a show on tv that isnt governed by the FCC.
i hear the arguments here already stating how these things are for the betterment of mankind and for the protection of the people, and that might be true, but it is, never the less, subjugation and control. we are so happy to give up our liberties for comfort. so eager to throw away our decision making abilities for the luxury of peace of mind. so willing to give up our basic human rights of choice and chance for the security of passivity. dont rock the boat. dont ask questions. dont take chances. do as we are told and everything will be provided to us (at a cost obviously because giving up our inalienable human rights to them as currency, has no monetary value).
like it says on the hidden track of Bobby Baun by Good Riddance (i scoured the internet for a transcript of the spoken word hidden track that sounds like a psa but couldnt find the text) "our powers of persuasion are so subtle that you wont even know you are being subjugated".
i am a slave to comfort. i am a slave to commercialism. i am a slave to a government that is more concerned with extending it regime to every third world country on the planet and thusly increasing its astronomical debt than it is with creating a true unity of people and class for a better world tomorrow. i am a slave to the ideal of freedom and its complete lack of probability. i am a slave to ideals set in motion by dead men who never could have known things would end up like this. i am a slave so long as i let this or any other country control my well being. i am a slave to this and so much more, but the difference between you and i is; i know im a slave and im unhappy about it.
i do not want to serve anymore. i do not want to serve anyone in meeting goals that mean nothing to me. i believe in a world where people would do their jobs because they love it and are good at it instead of doing things based purely on profit. i believe in the freedom of man and the protections of those freedoms. i believe that the most qualified should lead, not the richest or most popular. i believe in a world that does not and cannot exist. the human heart harbors so much animosity, greed and jealousy that a perfect world can never exist until these self destructive traits are bread out of us or eliminated through some other, unknown to us now, means. by which point i would most likely be dead and forgotten, which doesnt sound terribly unappealing.
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