And yet you just hit the nail on the head right there. People can't be bothered with politics and yet it is politics which is screwing them over. Politics is the relationship between power and the rest of us, I am sorry to say.
Exactly, most people still live a life too cozy and nice to think about revolution (and the others are already too downtrodden - drugs, or too busy with 2-3 jobs and children and and and ...)!
Oh that is great! I love it. When my stepson says, at dinner next time, that he can't be bothered with politics as there is 'no point' and 'there is nothing you can do', I will respond with Chomsky's comment. And claim it as my own. He won't know. Win Win!
But an honest one. It’s comfortable living in a Western ‘democracy’; affluent, advanced economy, where one of the major issues confronting (young) people is, where will we go for a drink tonight, or what movie to watch, do these jeans fit, where’s a good vegan cafe……questions, questions, questions, flooding into the mind of the concerned young person today….. Not, ‘will I get through the day without being killed, or raped?’
I think a lot of people are too consumed with barely surviving and therefore can't be bothered with politics.
And yet you just hit the nail on the head right there. People can't be bothered with politics and yet it is politics which is screwing them over. Politics is the relationship between power and the rest of us, I am sorry to say.
As pointed out by Noam Chomsky, poor people in Haiti are able to organize politically.
Exactly, most people still live a life too cozy and nice to think about revolution (and the others are already too downtrodden - drugs, or too busy with 2-3 jobs and children and and and ...)!
Oh that is great! I love it. When my stepson says, at dinner next time, that he can't be bothered with politics as there is 'no point' and 'there is nothing you can do', I will respond with Chomsky's comment. And claim it as my own. He won't know. Win Win!
Are the gangs still there?
This is NOT an excuse.
YOU Americans make war on other countries.
DO you imagine what it is like to be in a 'war torn' land?
YOU can still go shopping and eat in restaurants.
When are you going to get empathy USA?
YOU are complicit in genocide and I really do not care IF you are having a bad time. People are being killed in your name.
Your sons and your daughters are not fighting these wars. Instead the USA is using "terrorists' to fight these wars for YOU;
Imagine: IF the USA introduced the 'draft?'
Why do your Govt. NOT do this?
An impassioned response.
But an honest one. It’s comfortable living in a Western ‘democracy’; affluent, advanced economy, where one of the major issues confronting (young) people is, where will we go for a drink tonight, or what movie to watch, do these jeans fit, where’s a good vegan cafe……questions, questions, questions, flooding into the mind of the concerned young person today….. Not, ‘will I get through the day without being killed, or raped?’
America should have taken Ike advice and become an agricultural country
But they still know something is wrong.