Comments by "\/" (@joebazooks) on "VICE News"
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AnarchoHumanism
it seems to me as if the "system" as a whole (educational systems, political systems, monetary systems, institutions of law enforcement, banking systems, basically everything) fosters and facilitates corruption. our systems function exactly how they were designed to function, but, yes, ultimately people are the problem. however, i believe there are more people with good intentions than bad intentions out there. still, it takes only a few rotten apples to spoil the whole bunch, especially when you have hierarchical structures everywhere.
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keith stone you young timers! back in the day, like 10 years ago, weed was always the easiest to get was weed because we had tons of buddies who sold it, since like half our school smoked it. booze and cigs were almost equally as difficult to get our hands on. in fact, i would say cigs were harder to get because, appropriately, very few smokers would actually buy them for us, knowing the addiction intimately. getting booze was always sketchy, however, because most of the people who would buy kids booze were alcoholics or junkies, some of whom were likely to keep your change or run off with your money lol
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I still don’t necessarily agree with contemporary governance, though, thanks to the internet and or media that is much more accessible, I’m much less cynical now regarding government. Some of these politicians, with whom I had never been acquainted—to any degree—and thus heretofore would have naturally disregarded out of my very own prejudice, actually seem to be rational human beings. But with that being said, let’s now face the facts in order so that we can finally address the real issues—what really matters—directly and appropriately. First, the system at large is (or constituent systems are) inherently flawed. Politicians, from the president or prime minister right down to the local mayor or city council, are basically figureheads. That is to say, they are virtually powerless. They are merely individuals that are no different from you or me. They are individuals whom desire to provide for and protect their own families and even their extended “family”. They are individuals whom are also subjugated in various ways for the sake of fundamentally maintaining the status quo and upholding traditional institutions, simply because making real change, implementing necessary change, is respectively scary and difficult. In today’s world money and weapons (or actual force) is power! Governments in the modern world are bought and sold, if you will, and held hostage at gunpoint, so to speak. Such platforms can foster and facilitate as much wrongdoing as they do right. And we're all complicit. To gain an inkling, yet critical understanding of the true nature of contemporary governance, one need not look any farther than the most basic pillar of contemporary governance: not consent, as proclaimed, but coercion. Coercion, now that’s power! When not a bullet to the chest, but the mere sight of a barrel or a baton strikes fear so deep within us that it accomplishes unwavering obedience, is a call for concern. Government is a ritualistic institution that is, from birth, thrust upon us without choice and obviously accepted without question—no different than, say, the tradition of Christmas or, better yet, Halloween—costumes and all. It’s a particular practice, a behaviour, a bad habit that we unwittingly carry forth unto the great abyss. And yet we are all swallowed up, stricken by a severe case of Stockholm Syndrome. The day that an official representative—any representative of the government that claims ownership of the very land loyally nurtures me all of us, any representative of the government that defends this claim with the back of his hand—formally seeks my explicit consent to being governed, just might be the day that I’m persuaded. Even though I now have an iota of understanding, an iota of sympathy for some of these figureheads, I still won’t vote. A flawless system is one that earnestly acknowledges each and every part. And this system is far from flawless. It’s time to sincerely acknowledge one another so that we can move beyond. We definitely do not need an official system of coercion to accomplish this. Collectively we have the power to sow our own fate and yet we shall reap whatever it may be that we choose to sow.
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