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Originally Posted by Andrew Brunelle  The whole problem with government, all government, no matter how well-intentioned the initial creators are, after they die, will the following generations be able to maintain it? Our nation was founded by highly conscious and brilliant people, but after they died off, it seems as if the highly conscious people dissipated in number. We no longer have a variety of highly conscious people in our government, but just a small few. One or two bad apples can ruin our whole system for a long time.
So the idea of government is not bad, initially. It is the maintenence of this government, a democracy, for the people, by the people. We have strayed quite a bit from this fundamental truth, but it's never too late to get back into it. We just need a highly conscious leader to help us along the way. And I'm quite sure it will not be from one of the two major political parties, which most likely means he/she will never be elected. Sad but true.
So don't knock the system, but knock the people who are in charge of the system. |
This phenomenon, strangely enough, seems to be all over the place. Genius seems to have died out, and there feel like there are fewer and fewer great human beings among us.
But I don't think this is an irreversible trend: I think that the last few decades of explosive growth have caused the human race to reel backwards in shock. We need to catch up, but when we do, it won't be so bad.