The disastrous US withdrawal from Afghanistan was a ruse to get the public re-emotionally invested in that part of the world for another war with the Taliban.
And to remind you that ruthlessly intrusive airport security will last forever.
Maybe this all stews as an endemic for a while to really establish the new normal, then the state takes it up a notch with FEMA.
It’s FABIAN SOCIALISM.
“....unconscious socialism had already proceeded through public control of services, largely by the municipalities....the Fabians should strive to influence the mainstream Liberal Party.“
https://www.britannica.com/event/Fabianism
That’s some profitable bait.
Any state that isn’t governed by the people, for the people, is a problem. In America, it‘s governed by the people. If the people screw up, corruption takes over, they now have a mess to clean up. Fortunately, law still works well enough for us to do that.
Sure, pointing out perpetrators is necessary and it will need to happen for justice to be served. But I’m saying that blaming others for problems isn’t productive.
I agree with you that criminals need to be sorted out and dealt with legally.
It’s a little more nuanced than them literally doing it to themselves.
For example, think of covid and the reaction of the masses, the consequences, but also what we will learn from it and how we will apply existing law to fix it, and improve law.
Yes, seriously, yes.
Yes, we did it to ourselves, yes.
Yes, genocide is mass murder, yes.
No, a crybaby cries about things rather than taking useful [legal] action.
The “state apparatus” is people, it’s not a separate entity.
Pointing out a perpetrator IS scapegoating. What better action do you think should be taken?
Haha, I’m just messing with you. I was gonna say something spicy, but I stopped myself.
Yes, personally, I have a good moral compass and I’ll bet you do too. But there are many who don’t. Most need external consequences as motivation. Think about that.
So, there is a difference between governance and having rulers. America got it mostly right. Look into what the founders had to say about rulers vs having a society governed by moral laws to protect rights given by God (not by man, which can be taken).
Many have been killed by religion, but that’s also a lack of law and order. Modern western law is based on Christian beliefs. You cannot separate morality from law. They are one in the same. Morality arises from religious beliefs. Religion can modernize.
Law competes, just like everything else. We don’t have a one world government. In the USA, you don’t like the laws of one state, you fix it or move. People are government. Do not anthropomorphize government. Yes, corruption exists, that’s not law.
Much of the first world is very sheltered. We should all count our blessings.
The Not So Wild, Wild West is pure, unscalable nostalgia. I do not support anarchy. I was a fan back in the day, but I’ve come to learn that it’s just not realistic. Honestly, what you all are fantasizing about as anarchy isn’t really anarchy at all.
To be angry over corruption and bureaucracy is totally understandable, but to blame the foundation of western law is misguided. It is the fault of sin in people. Good laws help us steward ourselves to be better.
