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oppression versus democracy?

  • 07-06-2002 01:22AM
    #1
    origen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭


    you live in 1930s russia. at any given moment you could be taken to the gulag archepeligo for no reason. you think therefore you know that you are oppressed. others in the same situation do not think they are oppressed and deny the situation. theydo not think.

    you live in 1990s america. you have a car, a nice house, children... you pay low taxes. petrol is cheap. life is good. you do not vote - what's the point? you do vote - what's the point? the government, once elected has the power to "run" the country without your knowledge (1st similarity). so long as you feel safe it does not matter what the government does - you do not concern yourself withthe fact that certain banks are omitted from the crackdown on terrorism, allowing your president to engage in lucrative inside trading in the aftermath of sept 11. you choose not to see this - you do not think.(2nd similarity)
    if you do think you might think that just because the oppression and corruption comes cloaked in personal comforts does not mean it is right or that it is not there or that it will never affect YOU.
    think.
    what would be a good option? in my view it would be a political structure that can measure itself by the code it imposes on its people (although i disagree with that the essence is there) and come away unscathed. democracy as we have it is beter than past dictatorships, but simply because they have been run my megalomaniacs. a just dictatorship is just as just as democracy as we have it now, leading me to the conclusion that what we have now must be changed.


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