[Brutha]

Originally Posted by ticktockclok

Are you a socialist, Brutha?

My opinion? They're all a bunch of crooks. Lie to you, sweet talk you, then backstab you once they get in.

I'm European. I once read an rather rightwing American commenting on German saying that four of our five parties that are at our parlament are socialist and the other one is liberal. It's all a matter of perspective.

There are a few dangers to humankind in the 21st century.
One of them is the cyberpunk world where there are company states whose power is greater than the power of single democratic countries.

The reason companies have managed to create powerful monopolies and be so damaging to the environment is almost always because of regulatory advantages and "intellectual property rights". This issue is hard to understand. Sensible intellectual property involves open source but protected source.

Your guy wants to strengthen property rights. Or does he somewhere say that intellectual property rights aren't property rights?
The ability of company to merge together by buying each other can also create powerful monopolies that do harmful things.

It is free as long as it does not encroach on the freedom of others. In a government following the principles of the constitution corporations damaging the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of individuals could be prosecuted in a court of law.

That is a nice romantic idea.
But you need laws to limit pollution to prosecute companys that pollute the enviroment in a way that damages life and the happiness of people. The goverment needs a certain strengh to do so.

In addition people die from the lack of good public health options.

Oh yes, great idea. A world with no borders, no say, and government with absolute control over the people. I think all people with influence over a great number of peoples opinions(for instance steve pavlina) should be interested in keeping this country from advancing the agenda of a new world order.

I never said absolute control.
We don't need a modern in our postmodern world, we need post-postmodern people.

We need a radical return toward the principles which American was founded upon.

Has a radical return to old ideas ever rescued a state in history? When you don't like the way a country develops you need new better ideas, instead of old ones.

The most enlightened people stood for causes and believed that one person can make a difference. Gandhi anyone?

Steve has is cause. Ghandi was no elected official and didn't run for the Indian parlament. He did is work outside of it.
Ghandi is the classic example for doing something without going the classical political way.

Don't you think it's in the best interests of those in control to convince people that enlightenment involves being 'apolitical' and living in a fantasy world where the actions of people of power doesn't matter?

You don't seem to understand Steves concept of subjective reality. It certainly doens't include that his actions doesn't matter.