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Just about everything in a society published is censored by at least
two groups, publishing companies and its government. Publishers first and
foremost censor what they wish to have associated with their name and reputation
for. Is this too controversial or just plain badly written or done? If
so, releasing too much of that type or even one notable exception which
gets too much attention and they might go under (bankrupt, sold, hostile
take over, or shut down by the government), and with them that work would
vanish anyway due to rights which would fall into others hands and kill
its publication. Governments wish to control what people are exposed to
politically, though they call it protecting their culture, which is basically
for good reasons and bad, the same thing, a political decision. Basically
cultures are overtly attempted to be shaped and molded to what those currently
in power wish them to be, or be thought of as by the people. In this sense
they are the same thing because a culture simply is what most people believe
it to be. The move to clamp down on the internet and self-publishing ought
to be seen as a defense of fewer groups to keep from losing their greater
power to guide in a positive sense, to control in a negative sense, a culture
to be thought of in THEIR terms first, foremost, and preferably exclusively.
When dissenting opinions get exposed to the general public, it enhances
their potential to be believed and the current views of the leadership
and mainstream media to be questioned or be thought wrong. That is why
the internet will be harnessed like a plow horse, because open debate is
not beneficial to the current policies or leaders.
The present leadership in any country in the world has neither the imagination
nor the political base nor the will to do anything bold or unpredictably
good, what I call good, for the equal benefit of all countries (or
even for the equal benefit of *ALL* of its own citizens), setting
the world off on a more stable and more sustainable direction. They oscillate
only between trying to keep everything the way it is to appease the rich
and powerful who gave them that position, or doing something they think
is unpredictable, what I call bad, sudden movement to enlarge their power
base at the expense of others. Since all countries plan to do those things
equally, start wars, become more nationalistic (more "patriotic" when its
your country), trade wars, disrupt each others economies with sanctions
or boycotts, it hardly ever is unpredictable or comes as any big surprise
to those who choose not to believe the lies of the rhetoric. We are like
riding in an elevator that can only go down or not at all, a world civilization
that for the moment can only get more greedy, nationalistic, and dictatorially
militaristic, and to cover trying to profit from the situation rather than
caring how to make it better or go away.
When people are unwilling or afraid to take a stand against laws, rules,
guidelines, or requirements they know are wrong, that only encourages lawmakers
to make more of them. The more that happens, the less it is thought the
laws must make any rational sense whatsoever, and they become free do to
with the law whatever they please. Injustice becomes gospel because of
the precedents they set which are all their is that guides them when morality
becomes whatever is profitable and the law, merely then a tool to use against
those you do not like. That is power gone mad. That is our reality.
Democratizing societies is often an excuse to divide them. Once different
groups are made to give preferences to each other, make rules which benefit
one subsection of that society at the expense of another or all others,
it becomes easy to pick that group of society to give support to and buy
influence with. Even if not giving money directly to the parties, rich
outside countries can easily identify who belongs to which group when deciding
who to do business with and thereby legally make them wealthy in the process,
and businessmen within the country begin to take the hint as to which parties
or ideologies are the most profitable, and will make them the most powerful
because of outside countries preferring to deal with those.
Give people, almost any group of people, more freedom of speech and
they will ask their opponent groups to be silenced. Give them more power
and they will use that power to weaken or control others they do not like
or care for. Give them autonomy and they will work to suppress (often at
any cost) others drives for more autonomy within their new regions. When
people are this predictably bad, how can anyone help them work together
as a whole? They see no whole, no commonality, only look for the means
to take more from others so they will have more for themselves. No political
party is ever able to benefit all of society equally as a whole as its
first aim, always their group of backers first who put them there (in office)
to increase their own standing over others within that society. Since even
societies within themselves are crippled to treating their own members
by their own governments truly and always equally, what hope is there that
all societies might ever try to do so in regards to each other, especially
(towards) weaker countries they can make dance however they wish at the
drop of a hat?
Peoples' perceptual worlds are limited to what they know about. If everyone
in a foreign country or even a continent you would never have any interaction
with or knowledge about it were all slaughtered, it would not be a source
of perception or affect your life as long as your government can keep them
(knowledge of it) from coming toward your metaphoric house's window and
telling you about it, even if they died because of your government for
your or its benefit, you are free of guilt as long as kept ignorant. This
is the power of governments lies, to create an artificial reality where
nothing bad happens that they can keep who matters (usually not you anyway)
from learning what they are doing. All realities are artificial as long
as ANY information is purposely suppressed from ANY public. That is only
half the story though. People not caring to want to know is the other half.
People turn to violence when they know their concerns or suffering will
never in their lifetimes be addressed or tried to be made right. Our pat
answers for everything are "GET OVER IT!" instead of trying to think what
you would do in their place, give up and accept what should never have
happened which not only may never be made right, but never even be made
to stop happening if it is still ongoing, and they are still increasingly
being victimized. GET OVER IT! Actually I agree with that. Too many wrongs
now have been done to too many people by how the world is for us to be
able to make things right. To the African-
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