The New Democracy
I was reading the New Yorker today, and as I read two fluff pieces on the state of the economy, and looked through photos of the war, I realized just how irrelevant traditional media has become. While they’re busy printing stories for all the right kinds of emotional impact, people are already discussing what’s going on and what to do about it on the internet.
Now more than ever, people are becoming aware of the way the world really works. It’s impossible to hide information from the public as long as there’s a free and open discussion. People understand that banker’s greed is the reason for the economic instability because the information is available, and so they wish the bankers to feel the pain of debt themselves, and not relegate it to the taxpayers. They call in to their representatives before elections and let them know how they feel. This is the beginning of a new democracy, one invulnerable to rigged elections and crooked politicians. Folks are realizing the experts know nothing, and with free access to information, they’re capable of running themselves better than any politician ever could.
Which is the exact principle the United States was founded on. There could be nothing better for the freedom and liberty of the American people than the so called “economic disaster” looming from the banker’s debts. It would force the people to rely on ourselves once again, and realize how little we need the experts from above. It would bring us all closer to the wisdom contained within the great religions and philosophies, and help us know our neighbors again. It would, in essence, destroy the foundations by which Americans and the rest of the world have been enslaved and hypnotized by materialism.
Because we would be forced to face the true cost of things. Of importing food from faraway countries while we have plenty of fertile farmland here. Of having troops in fifty countries at once. The mechanisms which have kept the markets artificially cheap would disappear along with the crooked billionaires. And what we’d be left with is honesty.
People would grow some of their own food in gardens, and catch their own rainwater from roofs. All the technology in the world can’t save us from corrupt governments bent on controlling us with fear and high-tech weapons. But our self-reliance renders them powerless. If a community provides for itself, it has no need for a larger government, and stops feeding it. And so the big powers that once controlled all dissolve into bare necessity with simplicity and without violence.
Farfetched? Maybe, but more possible than ever in history, with the power of the internet to disseminate information regarding self-reliance and community empowerment. The suburbs are capable of providing most of their food and water, and so are the cities. We must only begin to act by planting, and watch as the world gets simpler and does away with experts. Then we will all be free once again, able to enjoy health, family and friends, without the strain of debt so others may be rich in power.
And so a lot of people within the media will be talking about the importance of the coming elections. But all that talk is irrelevant, yet again. More politicians will not fix the problems facing our country. What will fix the problems of our country is “economic hardship”, forcing Americans and their politicians to face reality. We cannot all afford live the way we have and support a bankrupt government at the same time. Which do we choose? To live a simpler, self-sufficient life, or to insist on the riches promised by the media kings? Who do we believe, our own rationality, or the rationality of the experts who ran off with trillions of our dollars?
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