June 13, 2008
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I was under the impression that we rebelled against Britain because we were being taxed without representation. Well, we won, and thus now we are taxed with representation. Great. But I can’t help but feel as though we were upset about the wrong variable in the equation. If my house is robbed during the night, it doesn’t matter to me if it was my next door neighbor or a tourist from Europe who did it; furthermore, fixing it so that it is my neighbor does nothing to solve the main problem here.
Not to mention, back in those days England had a Constitution that no one followed since it wasn’t written down. We wrote ours down, but still don’t follow it. It’s the same fallacy all over again of removing the wrong variable. You could call this instance of it the Ten Commandents fallacy, I suppose. Writing it down didn’t really fix the problem.
The leader of our nation is also the son of a past leader, and, like we’ve been over, does not really feel any obligation to follow the Constitution, which basically constitutes a monarchy and an autocracy.
In other words: Great. We’re right back where we started.
To top it all off, given the technology of modern militaries, rebelling is not even an option anymore. It is quite disappointing that the time is over when citizens were capable of matching their government’s military strength, given a sufficiently impassioned speech in a public square beforehand. Seems to me the world was a lot more fun and interesting when we were always just one collective riot away from overthrowing the government. Besides, a little rebellion every now and then is a good thing.
Word on the street is that the government listens to our phone conversations. Just in case, at the end of every conversation I always throw in, “Ok, I’m a terrorist, bye.”
Comments (6)
That’s a really smart way to end your conversations–you know, keep the government informed and all that. It’s actually very helpful.
LOL @ your final comment. I would never be that brave and then trying to explain to my mother why she needs to come bail me out of some high security prison somewhere in Arizona would be difficult at best.
haha
Anarchy rocks
Hey, when’s the tea party?
Also like the Ten Commandments, the problem isn’t that people aren’t following it – it’s that there are so many interpretations. “Ok, so the Bible says ‘thou shalt not kill’, but surely they’re just referring to this person – and that one – and, no, not that one.”
It’s one reason I’m a little removed from both political sides – not many people realize this anymore, but the reason people are referred to CONSERVATIVE and LIBERAL is because of their interpretation of the Constitution. Now it seems to align more with morality. A traditional conservative would defend the freedom of the press and the rights of prisoners to the extreme – he would rather err on the side of caution, whereas a traditional liberal might interpret those amendments more loosely. Now, it’s all kerflooey. I don’t know what happened.
“Ok, I’m a terrorist, bye.”
Lol. Never go to airports.