Not voting at all is exactly what the military, industrial and political complex wants you to do. Neuter yourselves.
Instead, citizens need to vote for new candidates with a new humanitarian ideology. Will that happen in one of the most psychologically and politically controlled countries in the world?
I understand this reasoning. But as implicit in your answer and many articles by Caitlin Johnstone, the whole system is gamed to make sure if you vote or if you don't vote you will get the same outcome.
I have watched Britain vote in and out governments all my life and yet each of these governments represent the exact same interests which shall not be challenged; NATO, US hegemony, Petro-chemical interests, big Pharma etc. Why is this system so unbreakable? I believe it is an inherently spiritual problem.
If my livelihood relies on the arms industry and I am talking about workers in a factory making weaponry (Knowing my work will maim or kill people) will I give it up? Can I? If my wage is derived from tobacco products (that will give people cancer) will I give that up? Most people will answer no.
They may reason it is the government's responsibility to provide alternatives, a government that is equally beholden to the revenues and the benefits from those industries and so it goes on. Who would make that change? Only someone who has come to the realisation of what they are doing and its consequences as wrong and they must take responsibility as an individual to act on a troubled conscience enough to walk away.
Who determines that making weapons and cigarettes is wrong? What is the standard to which we may all agree, because that is the only way we can be saved from ourselves and our destructive behaviour.
What is humanity without God? Without God what is morality? (I am not talking about religion and its terrible hypocritical record here) What defines yours or my humanity? Is there a standard to which all can and will adhere?
The criticisms are clear and easy to point out. The human solutions elude us or are unrealistic, impractical or just plain wishful thinking. Unless there is a God and we can appeal to that superior authority. If not, we must accept the futility of man doing the same thing over and over again (6000 years of human history repeating) and each time expecting a different outcome; which was Einstein's definition of insanity. But whereas cave men had clubs and spears we now have human extinction weapons.
'...so that they would seek God, if they might reach for him and really find him, although, in fact, he is not far off from each one of us.' Acts 17:27
Not voting at all is exactly what the military, industrial and political complex wants you to do. Neuter yourselves.
Instead, citizens need to vote for new candidates with a new humanitarian ideology. Will that happen in one of the most psychologically and politically controlled countries in the world?
I understand this reasoning. But as implicit in your answer and many articles by Caitlin Johnstone, the whole system is gamed to make sure if you vote or if you don't vote you will get the same outcome.
I have watched Britain vote in and out governments all my life and yet each of these governments represent the exact same interests which shall not be challenged; NATO, US hegemony, Petro-chemical interests, big Pharma etc. Why is this system so unbreakable? I believe it is an inherently spiritual problem.
If my livelihood relies on the arms industry and I am talking about workers in a factory making weaponry (Knowing my work will maim or kill people) will I give it up? Can I? If my wage is derived from tobacco products (that will give people cancer) will I give that up? Most people will answer no.
They may reason it is the government's responsibility to provide alternatives, a government that is equally beholden to the revenues and the benefits from those industries and so it goes on. Who would make that change? Only someone who has come to the realisation of what they are doing and its consequences as wrong and they must take responsibility as an individual to act on a troubled conscience enough to walk away.
Who determines that making weapons and cigarettes is wrong? What is the standard to which we may all agree, because that is the only way we can be saved from ourselves and our destructive behaviour.
What is humanity without God? Without God what is morality? (I am not talking about religion and its terrible hypocritical record here) What defines yours or my humanity? Is there a standard to which all can and will adhere?
The criticisms are clear and easy to point out. The human solutions elude us or are unrealistic, impractical or just plain wishful thinking. Unless there is a God and we can appeal to that superior authority. If not, we must accept the futility of man doing the same thing over and over again (6000 years of human history repeating) and each time expecting a different outcome; which was Einstein's definition of insanity. But whereas cave men had clubs and spears we now have human extinction weapons.
'...so that they would seek God, if they might reach for him and really find him, although, in fact, he is not far off from each one of us.' Acts 17:27
Is it time to reach out?