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Liberation Politics: My
Political Perspective Twitter @PeaceEmpowers
(: There is often populous will to solve
societal problems. This will then
attempts to achieve its desired incomes by using government to enact
solutions. Yet this will is corrupted
and then the abilities to achieve the desired outcomes are diminished due to
the methods which the institution of government uses to try to solve
problems. This post will examine these
issues and discuss ways the internet can act to give power to the public will
so that we may find better methods to solve societal problems and then limit
the use of hard power to solve societal problems. J
(: It makes sense that people are used to
trying to use government to solve problems.
It was the first institution which gave us an ability to pool our
resources and talent together to solve issues our smaller communities or us as
individuals had little to no ability to impact.
Yet all too often when the institution of government tries to solve
these problems it fails at doing so. Let
us look no further than the modern drug war in the US which not only has failed
in reducing marijuana use but in the process has broken apart families,
destroyed futures, created more single-parent households, and ultimately has
created far more societal harm than marijuana dependency ever could. J
(: Government enacts most of its solutions
through hard power. Hard power is the
use of coercive power through threats of violence or enacting violence against
others if they do not obey the rules the politicians decided on. This is seen when government officials
restrain people, throw them in cages, abuse them in prisons, shoot people and
puppies in raids for marijuana, etc. The
methods of hard power fail as they persuade no one to act differently for the
most part but just make people fearful of the danger their government presents
to them via the use of hard power. J
(: The will of the public is corrupted in
politics. This is another reason we find
it so difficult to find solutions to societal problems when we try to do so by
using government. Politicians gain and
attain power largely through working with and giving a wink and a nod to the
desires of wealthy individuals with economic power. These wealthy individuals then push their
agendas more easily than countless working-class people could as they have
greater access to the politicians. This
is why we get scenarios like the US paying Halliburton(or whatever they’re
going by these days) providing billions of dollars in no-bid contracts every
year. With a no-bid contract a company
can offer to do the services Halliburton is providing at a better value(more
bang per dollar) yet Halliburton will always get the contract anyway because
the government doesn’t accept bids for other businesses to compete in getting
the funds Halliburton gets. A lot of
this has to do with the influence of Dick Cheney which certainly did not die
with the ascendency of Obama to the presidency. J
(: We no longer need to solve problems
through government as we may now solve problems voluntarily through technology
, esp with the internet. The internet
gives great power to the will of the public.
It has led to demonstrations of millions upon millions of people all
across the globe to demand more liberation/freedom to act on their own
destinies to paint the best destiny for themselves into existence. Through crowd-source projects ideas are
funded, Kickstarter (a crowd-sourcing site) sees great success with most
projects reaching funding goals. J
(: We have only scratched the surface on
what we can do with the internet. The
internet is still very new when looking at it through a historical
reference. It has been available to the
masses only within my lifetime, and its only been affordable & fast to the
public for a little over a decade. I
believe that through the internet humankind will solve poverty so that no
person may ever need to go to bed hungry.
No person will be without shelter.
I believe that via the internet we can accomplish far greater scientific
and technology advances because of all the information we have access to which
we can further build on. The internet
provides us access to peers who specialize in a litany of skills whom we can
work with to build on projects and desires together. Through the internet, things are done
voluntarily. Through government, things
are done with force and involuntarily. J
(: I believe in finding ways to solve
problems which governments currently attempt to solve and then ending the
governments hard-power attempts to solve those problems which we figure out on
our own. For example, One we (using the
internet) find a way to have a masses-funded unemployment insurance program(s)
then we can end the government using hard power over businesses and individuals
working within or outside businesses to force them to pay into an unemployment
insurance program. If we fulfill the
need of unemployment insurance by finding effective, voluntary ways to do so we
will arrive at a more efficient, not subject to political pressures, method and
can then remove the governments inefficient involuntary methods.
J
(: I believe where government is providing
something good for society we should work to replace that through completely
voluntary means using the internet as well.
For example, I’m a big fan of NASA.
Yet what if NASA used Kickstarter or Indigogo campaigns to fund projects
which they persuaded us to be useful?
The millions of people who love NASA could then fund it voluntarily,
ending the governments coercive method of funding, and NASA could do better
things because I think the public who hear what all NASA has done and how their
technological developments have vastly improved our world do want to give more
money to NASA. They just need an easy,
quick way to do so with the right incentive.
Voluntary crowd-funding is just superior than coercive funding and now
that the internet gives power to voluntary crowd-funding we should seek to use
this method over coercive methods.
J
(: I do not think the institution of
government is an inherent evil, its methods are just inferior to
morally-preferable methods that exist through the internet. We can come together to face challenges from
education to healthcare. We can come
together to do amazing great things through science and technology and giving
those areas more funding through the internet.
Much of this has already began through current online projects. J
May you always live in
Peace , Love and Joy ,
Caleb
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