tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post6352682887295872410..comments2023-10-20T05:51:51.625-04:00Comments on The THINK 3 INSTITUTE: IndependenceSamuel Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-87125605276967546102010-07-05T03:19:39.484-04:002010-07-05T03:19:39.484-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-22935241300990588362010-07-04T23:34:30.994-04:002010-07-04T23:34:30.994-04:00Indeed, Korzybski's General Semantics tells us...Indeed, Korzybski's General Semantics tells us; "The map is not the territory." The word is not the thing described. "Independence" is not a document, or a series of documents, or even a whole book worth of documents. Independence is what you allow yourself as an individual; what you agree to allow yourselves as a social group (family, tribe, nation, race).<br /><br />I say if we are truly free, let us burn those documents. Let us not be afraid to start again, every generation, until we get it right. Anytime a government becomes ineffective and inefficient in meeting it's part of the "social contract", burn it down. If government is to be of the people, by the people, for the people, then it must become OF the people, BY the people and FOR the people. Rather than "of the social elite, by the political class, for the wealthy." <br /><br />That being said, if "the people" are, in fact, to "own" the government, they damnwell better get an education on how to do so. Let's face it, Joe the Plumber, literally could not run his own business...how can he run a government? Speaking of which...<br /><br />Our government may be set up as three separate branches in a series of checks and balances, but they should be acting like three equal limbs, instead they act like two bickering siblings, each trying to gain control all three branches (like some kind of neurotic siamese twins). At the very least, we owe it to ourselves to make sure that NO judge sitting on the supreme court is a member of any political party and has no "agenda" of his or her own.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com