Why it’s so hard to keep up with how the U.S. gov't is spying on its own people

Re:Why it’s so hard to keep up with how the U.S. gov't is sp... by eip on Monday November 23, 2015 @12:52PM (#10615964)

The primary reason why the individual citizens of a country create a political structure is a subconscious wish or desire to perpetuate their own dependency relationship of childhood. Simply put, they want a human god to eliminate all risk from their life, pat them on the head, kiss their bruises, put a chicken on every dinner table, clothe their bodies, tuck them into bed at night, and tell them that everything will be alright when they wake up in the morning.

This public demand is incredible, so the human god, the politician, meets incredibility with incredibility by promising the world and delivering nothing. So who is the bigger liar? the public? or the "godfather"?

This public behavior is surrender born of fear, laziness, and expediency. It is the basis of the welfare state as a strategic weapon, useful against a disgusting public.

http://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/sw4qw/index.shtml#twentyfour

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Re:Why it’s so hard to keep up with how the U.S. gov't is sp... by RobertoG on Monday November 23, 2015 @01:04PM (#10616042)

Uau, Freud meet Ayn Rand. Darwing is missing somewhere there.

I would argue that the reason we create "political structures" is because we are social hierarchical primates.

We evolved for living in small groups where "the boss" was easily removed if he abused too much of its power. Then the neolithic and the industrial revolution arrived and now we don't know how to deal we societies of millions of people. That doesn't mean we can't learn how to do it.

Maybe modern governs can be though as just another technology.

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