I was a sorcerer in AD&D. Here I hope to be interesting--at least to someone.

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Are we children?

The government of the United States – that is, our government – seems to labor under the delusion that the citizenry are children who need to be led about by the hand. We are apparently incapable of making any intelligent, responsible, educated decisions regarding how our government is to be managed. Do you doubt my veracity? How many events in our history have been covered-up, made secret, or otherwise hidden away from our knowledge? Our government claims that these acts are kept quiet out of necessity, and that it would be too dangerous for us to be informed of their existence.

Are we children, to be treated thus? I think not! I believe that much of the blame for this behavior can be attributed to our own acceptance of our government’s deception. We listen to the distortions presented to us, and, rather than act to demand the unaltered truth, we allow the subterfuge to continue unabated. A good example is the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It has been forty-seven years since the murder of one of our presidents took place, yet we have done little to bring the evidence of the event forward for full public examination. The government claims the information too dangerous to be presented to the public, and that riots and other acts of violence will break out if so done.

What is it about a politician that makes him decide to treat his fellow citizenry as children, no longer capable of any logical, intelligent act? Has he become somehow godlike due to his ascension to elected office? Perhaps in his newly celestial state, he has become somewhat confused, and forgotten that he was—quite recently—one of us himself. Perhaps we need to remind him that he has not become better than us; and that his representation of us requires him to not only listen to us, but also to act in a manner that befits our election of him. At any rate, we need him to reach out and grasp the information that has been denied us, and finally make it accessible to the public as a whole.

BTW, the representation of the politician as “he” is a generalization. It is not meant to be seen as only male.

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