It seems they are pushing for a situation of "perfect peace", or total lack of confrontation. When will they understand that peace is an impossible goal. Why don't they understand that confrontation is pretty much natural to people (at least in all of the cultures that I have seen)... The goal must not be to prevent violence, conflict, or war, as that is impossible! Rather the goal must be to minimize the damaging effects, and to quickly repair all damage afterward. In addition, how can these parents say that their children are such mindless automatons that using the internet or playing a videogame can somehow transform a "nice little kid" into a "violent killer". There must necessarily be a background.
I agree with your general idea (and I get the sarcasm in the comment about the US being the land of the free). However I am not all that sure anymore that the US should still be called the land of the free anymore. The reason for this is that it seems to be more and more that the US is ruled by something more akin to a dictatorship.
The dictatorship would be the giant corporations and their front organizations such as the MPAA. From what I have seen, there are many situations where the elected government has no choice but to bow to the wishes of these almighty corporations!
You may wish to cite the Microsoft case as an example of the government confronting a corporation, but in truth is was the corporations attacking Microsoft in the anti-trust case, as they were the ones who cooperated so willingly with the government. This situation seems more akin to corporations fighting with each other than the people winning.
Too bad the culture of free is being targeted so heavily by the corporations now, as government has also joined in and will only commit itself more to the extermination of that which is free, because the corporations don't like it.
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It seems they are pushing for a situation of "perfect peace", or total lack of confrontation. When will they understand that peace is an impossible goal. Why don't they understand that confrontation is pretty much natural to people (at least in all of the cultures that I have seen)... The goal must not be to prevent violence, conflict, or war, as that is impossible! Rather the goal must be to minimize the damaging effects, and to quickly repair all damage afterward. In addition, how can these parents say that their children are such mindless automatons that using the internet or playing a videogame can somehow transform a "nice little kid" into a "violent killer". There must necessarily be a background.
Perhaps you're right, I guess I was thinking of a feudalism in a primitive state, with no clear leader yet.... Now though, I agree, it's an ogliarchy.
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I agree with your general idea (and I get the sarcasm in the comment about the US being the land of the free). However I am not all that sure anymore that the US should still be called the land of the free anymore. The reason for this is that it seems to be more and more that the US is ruled by something more akin to a dictatorship.
The dictatorship would be the giant corporations and their front organizations such as the MPAA.
From what I have seen, there are many situations where the elected government has no choice but to bow to the wishes of these almighty corporations!
You may wish to cite the Microsoft case as an example of the government confronting a corporation, but in truth is was the corporations attacking Microsoft in the anti-trust case, as they were the ones who cooperated so willingly with the government. This situation seems more akin to corporations fighting with each other than the people winning.
Too bad the culture of free is being targeted so heavily by the corporations now, as government has also joined in and will only commit itself more to the extermination of that which is free, because the corporations don't like it.