I suspect that every new "law" and every new form of surveillance crammed in our faces and under our beds ratchets us one step closer to the collapse of the current government. They are dooming their own scam and don't realize it.
Their own ambition is killing them.
They think they are gaining more control. They think they are making us more controllable. And, in the short term, they probably are. I don't think it can last as long as they imagine.
"Forever" stamps are unrealistically optimistic.
I would like to think enough people have matured beyond the infantile need to be governed and to want others governed on their behalf that the species can stop making this same old stupid mistake, but chances are, we'll have to go a few more rounds, sacrificing a few more generations to this false god, before enough people catch up and catch on.
Whatever comes, I still see every new surveillance tool and every added "law" as another nail in the coffin of the State.
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If not, that’s OK.
“I would like to think enough people have matured beyond the infantile need to be governed and to want others governed on their behalf that the species can stop making this same old stupid mistake,…”
ReplyDeleteAn agreeable and hopeful expectation, or perhaps more accurately, a ‘wish’ rather than an expectation.
“… but chances are, we'll have to go a few more rounds, sacrificing a few more generations to this false god, before enough people catch up and catch on.”
As a dilettante student of this species tangible history and actions over the past ~8000 years I fear that although a minority of individuals have accepted this truth it is something that the bulk of the herd, now and in the future as in the past, lack the ethics or the responsibility to acknowledge much less put into practice. Wisdom is a characteristic of individuals, not of collectives of any description.
Agreed. My own sense of ethics and responsibility makes me keep offering them the choice, though.
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