The fate of man
I've been watching the blogosphere a lot these last six months, and I've seen some rather disturbing things that have more than confirmed my suspicions of the contemporary political systems.
Most of the videos I've seen comes from America. I think the people over there are simultaneously worse and better off than the people in Denmark, though it is hard to evaluate.
I've seen three videos I'd like to recommend
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by the numbers -- the problem is not immigrants, but mass immigration. A very thoughtful demonstration of why the great nation that America was for a few decades is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
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ask not what your country can do for you,
ask what you can do for your countryIt all comes from the notion that we, the people, are subjects of the state. That the state owns us. That people should be thankful for what the state sees fit to let them have.
The adherents of that particular belief are many, but they rarely admit to hold such beliefs, since that would be grossly offensive to the common citizen.
Nowadays, people are conditioned to think that it is logical for us to pay more than half of what we earn in taxes. That more control and oversight of our lives and gross violations of privacy are "necessary" to combat terrorism and other evils. In fact, we are trying to fight those who would do away with our liberty, by slowly reducing those same liberties.
It is sad. Our prime minister once wrote a book called "From social state to minimal state". A real liberal book. It would seem that he's forgotten most of it. He's had to, or he would never have become prime minister of a socialist democrat nation.
I think the only hope for us is God. For the thousands of years we have inhabited the earth, there has been so much evil. So much greed, so much war.
The greatest threat is perhaps the socialists. They have their pure ideology. They believe that they will do as all a great favour by taking away our liberties. And they might be able to prevent war and combat hunger. But what worth is that without liberty?