This may not be a long, thought-out post, but while paging through very thought-provoking comments, I came up with a possible solution. This solution is not probable or even very insightful, but imagine someone smart getting very lucky. This someone would amass great wealth and assets from some type of business venture, invention, or whatever (Not a Bill Gates reference). Imagine someone like Andrew Carnegie, filthy rich from basically one great, great lucky streak.
How do you influence the politians you say, if they are too corrupt to do it themselves. How do you provoke change when the people can't see the issue you strive for? Politicians care about their office almost as much as they care about money. Money is, in this day more than ever, as wealth is not only shown by money vaults, but assets, stocks, information, and and great hordes of accounts, a sovereign power above almost all. One lucky person of this stature, maybe two, could motivate deep change. We should hope they follow a respectable goal to help people.
Perhaps this is how our goverment came to morph into what it is today. Maybe a sign of this is the constant and unrelenting slew of large wealths fighting towards their own goal. Fighting such as trying to protect campaign money for politicians, to protect a policial system that is molded by profit, to keep a large corporation a little bit richer by running down insignificant little rights and "priviledges".
Perhaps this can only be changed by the chance that the next billionaire sees how to use this influencial asset they may have so slimly attained to move in a better direction. Sure, the people as a whole, the public could forge such a change, but it is very difficult to bring people together. It is especially difficult to bring people together in the right direction, thereby provoking thought and true open debate. It would be tough to bring the people in a different direction now, as they see a horrible act and are told anything short of full and total retaliation without hesitation would be wrong. Not only wrong, but perhaps as an aid to terrible acts.
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Actually Deviant Art is really good. They are huge, and I think they are free.
www.mathworld.com seems to work, instead of the other link. Seems so obvious too.
This may not be a long, thought-out post, but while paging through very thought-provoking comments, I came up with a possible solution. This solution is not probable or even very insightful, but imagine someone smart getting very lucky. This someone would amass great wealth and assets from some type of business venture, invention, or whatever (Not a Bill Gates reference). Imagine someone like Andrew Carnegie, filthy rich from basically one great, great lucky streak.
How do you influence the politians you say, if they are too corrupt to do it themselves. How do you provoke change when the people can't see the issue you strive for? Politicians care about their office almost as much as they care about money. Money is, in this day more than ever, as wealth is not only shown by money vaults, but assets, stocks, information, and and great hordes of accounts, a sovereign power above almost all. One lucky person of this stature, maybe two, could motivate deep change. We should hope they follow a respectable goal to help people.
Perhaps this is how our goverment came to morph into what it is today. Maybe a sign of this is the constant and unrelenting slew of large wealths fighting towards their own goal. Fighting such as trying to protect campaign money for politicians, to protect a policial system that is molded by profit, to keep a large corporation a little bit richer by running down insignificant little rights and "priviledges".
Perhaps this can only be changed by the chance that the next billionaire sees how to use this influencial asset they may have so slimly attained to move in a better direction. Sure, the people as a whole, the public could forge such a change, but it is very difficult to bring people together. It is especially difficult to bring people together in the right direction, thereby provoking thought and true open debate. It would be tough to bring the people in a different direction now, as they see a horrible act and are told anything short of full and total retaliation without hesitation would be wrong. Not only wrong, but perhaps as an aid to terrible acts.
Maybe we will get lucky.