Not at all. I have a feeling you'd fare better in my 'big government' country that I would in your ideal country, though. I like services.
I can understand why you think that. Like many, you see gov't in the now and from its utilitarian value. A VAST majority POV I might add. It's also why many people see adverse conditions and solely associate them only to the present rather than observing the history of policy and the forces who manipulate (those self serving interests) for their own advantage. Like a group painting, each succeeding artist adds more paint to the canvas and there are always the sycophants who proclaim the beauty of the work but disconnect from those interests and the canvas just looks like an absolute mess.
I see gov't from history and see its bloody legacy and its harm to man and man's evolution. But you do have the overwhelming upper hand in this debate as the vast majority of people would and do agree with you and desire similar ends as yourself using the State as a means. I do agree my POV is so vastly outnumbered to the point it almost doesn't exist.
I'm still waiting for all of you to make this work and prove me wrong. What I'm seeing however is not a condition of improvement but rather just the opposite. Yet every election brings new hope, a new
artist with his/her pallet of paint and yet at the conclusion of the terms the outcome seems to me to speak otherwise. I look at the canvas and YUCK!
I will say this, decentralize the State and make decisions local and then we begin to have another conversation. Abandon the centralization of Claude Henri de Saint Simon and his technocracy of rule by expert and the scientific management of central planning. Continue to build large scale top down centralized societies with their State control mechanisms, regardless the political spectrum, you can count me out.
The other legacy of your artwork is that it produces outcomes like Noble King Black Rulership. Hell, everyone else dominates everyone else so why don't I just declare myself King and join in the fun! The man may not realize it but he speaks volumes about what we call civilization.
When it comes to civilization, I'm with John Trudell as it's the Great Lie, one way or the other, it is The Great Lie!
So I'll just sit back as others have done in history and watch as it continues too implode. Like others before me, I'll just observe history and I'm comfortable with doing that too. At least our value to posterity is a living example of what not to do so we do serve some value to humanity in that respect. Otherwise as Agent Smith told Morpheus, we have become nothing more than a virus.
