| I'm open to other ideas. Certainly the corporate media has failed.
Government is nothing more than society coming together to solve problems. Some aspects of that have been hijacked in the U.S. mainly because of the media's (largely corporate) inability or unwillingness to inform the public. Best evidence is the recent election. Not just that Bush won, but that only two people were seen as viable candidates, and that this election was somehow "the most important election of our lives." Presidential elections do ittle to change anything, it's true.
Government does not give us freedom, no. Resistance to opression is what gives us freedom, and that's often against government, it's true. Creating healthy institutions is also what gives us freedom. Some of those healthy institutions could be called government if we tried. The so-called "private sector" can do no better. At least not without government. |