That said, I /finally/ got an idea for a post. It came to me while I was sitting in Spanish, reflecting on the lecture we'd received on the Vietnam war in geography the period before. I was thinking, as he talked about the whole commie north vs democratic south as an extension of US vs USSR (or CCCP if you feel like it) fight. Which got me thinking about politics, which I think about a lot.
Now, I don't want you to skim that last line. I theorize about the possibilities of a government-free state (anarchy) but then I always get to the enforcement of commonly accepted rules. You need a body to enforce that. Because BTECAR (Body That Enforces Commonly Accepted Rules) wasn't a catchy acronym, the guys in the PR department said, "Fuck it!" tossed some letters in the air and 'government' was born.
I always come back to that. There are a lot more complexities to government, but on the most conceptual level, I think one can agree that a government exists to keep the people living happy lives. Here, have some evidence.
Look at Karl Marx (writer of The Communist Manifesto, father of communism, most popular philosopher of all goddamn time) with his book, The Communist Manifesto, he laid down a system which is, on paper, utopia. You get what you need and you give away the extra. There's a committee who runs this shit, making sure everyone's happy. Good times, right? I'll get back to this.
Take whatever fucker invented Capitalism. You sell some shit, get some cash, and before you can say bitches n' hoes, you're buying shit and being like, "this is pretty dope". You're happy because you have money and probably a few hoes. You're happy, right?
Or my personal favorite (and philosophy): Utilitarianism. That mouthful can be oversimplified to this: "Do whatever the fuck you want, unless it harms others, but remember hurting yourself hurts the community, so don't be stupid." There's a lot more to it, but that's it. I'd agree the freedom to do the fucktons of shit that doesn't harm others is a nice thing to have. I'd be damn happy.
What I'm trying to get across here is half the crucial point of this post: Government exists to make people happy. (Disagree? Argue in the comments, but read the rest of this first.)
So I was thinking about that, and my thoughts drifted a bit to violence, as they're want to do. When you think about it, you get to the /other/ half of the crucial point of this post: Government exists to make people happy, but the wars that we fight over them don't make anyone happy. Rather than propagating Anarchy here, I'm saying think a bit about how much sadness politics has brought. It's kind of a farce:
All the deaths in the Vietnam war (which is measured in tens of thousands for the US /ALONE/) are because the Commie North invaded the Democratic South, and over the course of a decade, everyone went wild with the violence sticks and killed a metric fuckton of people. Why? Because the the Commies and the Democrats didn't agree on how to run shit.
How about every political assassination, ever? Murder murder murder, politics politics politics. Or all those who've died in riots, which rise whenever a stupid government herp derps their way through a stupid policy and the people herp derp their way into a big square where the police herp derp and herpa derpa derpa, /DEATH/.
This post is making it seem like I don't value politics.
Let me clear that up. I think politics are quite necessary in the way a flushing toilets are necessary. Yes, we could live without them, but most of us not very long (and those left, life would be shit. Get it? Shit? I'm not funny. ) I take a Utilitarian (protip: that's required fucking reading) stance, which is better explained there than it was a few paragraphs ago. I'll wait while you read that.
Really, this whole post can be summed up as such: Politics are a bitch (see: uncounted goddamn deaths via politics), but are a necessary evil, and they can be grandly improved by a certain version of leadership, which as a Utilitarian I'll say is utilitarianism. But it's important to have your own opinion (this post was almost about that), so argue the fuck out of this. Your political philosophy, why you grandly disagree with my general hatred of politics, why you're never reading this again because of this post, any fucking ideas on what the next can be, et goddamn cetera.
Also, a compliment would be nice.
5 comments:
I'm sorry Anthony, but I hate politics
saw title, skipped over this post. Here's a comment though :D
Sorry to disappoint but I don't have time to read this morning, I got to where you said Politics is to make people happy. I disagree, obviously, because it can't, though I know that's not your full opinion. I'll read the rest after school, I promise!
Government, not politics, to make people happy. Crucial.
BTW, at the end, I think you meant compliment. Or maybe you actually did mean complement. If so, explain? It's a fairly good post, I liked reading it. I agree, though the Wiki was too long to read, and I'm lazy. Sorry. THE FLOOR IS LAVA! Gack! =)Oh right, Government, not Politics. Tis what I meant.
Utilitarianism, like Utopianism, seems more like an ideal or belief than a governmental system. And I do disagree, I think the reason there is government is because someone way back when saw a job that needed filling in hims opinion. And if it weren't him, it would be the next fucker to come along that would start government. Plus, even wolves have an "alpha male." so do the great apes, including us. I think that's the start of government. Blame our genetics every time the people flock to dictators.
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