Do you feel like you'll graduate to 'political problems are human problems and human problems boil down to idiots having children, idiots raising children and society being unwilling to rid itself of humans who have convincingly shown to be counter-productive to society', coupled with 'for society to function long term, it needs to have a shared goal, vision, not selfish goals of one house, two cars, fence, big tv and plenty of derp entertainment for each family'?
I feel like anything that isn't addressing these two issues is re-arranging chairs on the Titanic as it's headed for a crash.
I think that dismissing large swaths of the population as “idiots” is overly simplistic.
There are many groups with power that benefit from keeping people misinformed and unable to rationally determine what is truly in their own self interest, all the way from childhood indoctrination on through to old age.
I’d want to neutralize some of the most egregious uses of such misinformation before simply blaming the people entirely themselves.
Do you feel like you'll graduate to 'Political problems are not emergent individual problems, but an issue of rules. The rules of the political game are rigged to filter out competent people and only allow shallow ideologues to power'? ;)
This is an interesting counterpoint. On one hand, alexashka makes valid observations, but to what degree is the behavior (s)he is observing a result of high quality political leadership most anywhere on the planet? And if that could somehow be changed, might people's behavior suddenly change as well?
I feel like anything that isn't addressing these two issues is re-arranging chairs on the Titanic as it's headed for a crash.