leery11 said:

The authorities believe that peace doesn't work and trick everyone else into thinking it's their own idea.

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wait why do we have a war on drugs?

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the most troubling thing is the "consensus reality" to use your terms that the television creates for us. one of endless pessimism...

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The sense of consensual reality amongst Americans might have similarities to the presentations through the television, but the media isn't the ultimate source of that consensual reality. For a time, it was a powerful influence, but things are changing, and the name of this change is the Internet.. the effects that blogs have had on the political side of things should illustrate this. Also, even if someone were to watch television eight hours a day, that's only 1/3 of the day. The sense of television as you propose it might be a bit exaggerated, but perhaps it is through this exaggeration that we steer clear of the exaggeration being realized.

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why don't they make a movie about us saving the world before it needs saving, so that we can succede in saving it?

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This relates to what I was just saying, I think.

Like, for instance, perhaps the government isn't trying to take away all of our freedoms, but as vigilant Americans, we should certainly act as though it were, in order to ensure that our rights aren't subtly taken from us.

Fuck them and their fucking horses, god damn it!


Peace.

fireworks_god said:

It isn't necessarily as though that they do not believe that peace will not effectively provide for a proper society and its management, it is simply that they realize that peace will not work for them, as the power that they are granted by the system that is currently in place would have to be given up by them, and they, for a great multitude of possible reasons, simply do not want to release their grip on that power.

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fireworks_god said:

Like, for instance, perhaps the government isn't trying to take away all of our freedoms, but as vigilant Americans, we should certainly act as though it were, in order to ensure that our rights aren't subtly taken from us.

Fuck them and their fucking horses, god damn it!


Peace.

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leery11 said:

right on. But that's fear mongering, and that's how they get their agendas across too!

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If it is practiced in a conscious, reasonable manner, it does not involve fear in any manner. It is simply an honest assessment of the activities and behaviors of others. If they are initiating action and proclaiming that it is addressing this concern, one must always question what is going on behind the scenes, who is gaining from what, and we must openly question that, to realize the boundaries that we must protect in order to ensure that too much unnecessary power is not seized.

There is nothing inherently wrong with power, and the old saying that implies that the greatest power will corrupt all is simply not true. All power requires an individual to be programmed in a specific manner in order to effectively utilize that power without becoming consumed by it. Politicians are the way they are right now because we, as a society, are not consciously influencing the development of our society and its individuals in a manner that will produce effective, beneficial leaders who will maintain integrity, respect the role they play for what it should be, and ensure that the action we engage in as a government is in the best interest of the development of our country, our individuals, every other country, ultimately, our environment, which includes all of this.

Now, is such a viewpoint idealistic? Absolutely. Idealism, to me, represents a goal. A goal, by itself, of course, is worthless, but a goal, accompanied with awareness, focus, the realization of what needs to occur in order to fufill the goal, and the action itself that will fufill the goal will move mountains, bring realization and peace to an individual, and will effect change so full of purpose that its outcome will be sustained throughout existance.


Peace.