As many of you already know, the good 'ol US of A is going down the crapper. The baseless rejection of background checks to purchase a gun is a slap in the face, the rejection of the assault rifle ban is a kick to the nuts, and the rejection of the high capacity magazines is nothing but icing on the cake. However I feel like everyone is caught up arguing over their interpretation of the Constitution, and missing the biggest issue of all. Congress is broken. Congress has been broken for some time now. As voters we are supposed to have the right to change this but somewhere down the line this right has been stripped from us. How voters let the government disarm us is beyond me. Elected officials should represent the needs and wants of the American people. Unfortunately, in this modern era we are being told who to vote for, not based on which elect is more qualified but based on which elect is more popular at the time. Voting has turned into a HS prom king and prom queen scenario. The cool jock always wins (ie Obama) and despite his qualifications, the less popular regular kid loses. My question is how did America get here? I blame the television. Since it's inception the TV has affected our views on things. In fact TV is what earned JFK the right to presidency. The media has made sure that as many Americans as possible have become slaves to the almighty television. Take infomercials for example. The television makes the shittiest products look amazing, all the while ensures that your purchase is "risk free!" "Buy one & get 75 free!!" "Money back guaranteed " Selling shitty products used to be a chore, that's why things of old are of some of the best quality. Televised commercials have made selling anything effortless, even politics. Far too long we have been force fed "facts" about a politicians true nature. From smear campaigns to controlled debates, the information we receive from the television is jaded before its even aired. Questions are pre-screened, people hand selected, and candidates prettied up to look as exceptionally average. Americans must be realize this and make a better effort to be cognizant. Americans must do the one thing they have been far too lazy to do, form their own goddam opinions. Take what the television says with a grain of salt, consider who is really pulling the strings. Stations have their own agenda. People have their own agenda (in this case it is my goal to convince readers to think independently of the media). My dream is a debate with no moving images, bounded by the radio with software running lie detecting software combined with a stress level monitoring system. Politicians lie, we know they lie, they know they lie. Give the voters raw data. Candidate A is lying, candidate B is nervous, candidate C is calm and collected. Encourage Americans to come to their own decisions, to formulate their own opinions based off the raw data. Do away with political parties all together. Have candidates not pitch to their corresponding party, but to the voters as a whole. Have a count of how many, and what kind of babies the candidate kisses. If you don't kiss 100 black babies you won't get my vote. I believe the story of the television will be the story of much of our modern technologies. Social media for example, is quickly becoming exactly what the television is now. A constant barrage of a select few telling the masses what to think, what to like, and how to feel. 'Like this', 'thumbs up if you agree', 'give me karma or give me death', 'my sick old grandma is dying donate money to my paypal'. The most liked comments are paraded at the top as if what was said is so profound all views must read the knowledge this person just dropped. This was the sole reason why I installed the Herp Derp extension for my Chrome account. Hell even Kickstarter is falling into the trap. Slowly becoming the go to spot for shitty artists to sell their shitty art, over-saturated with half-assed or unfinished products, and vagrants seeking out help for whatever it is vagrants need. It is my hope that one day a technology will be invented and used by the masses as it was originally intended. A technology that is built solely to save us from ourselves. A technology immune to corruption and deceit. Other than revolution, a technology that forces people to think independently is the only cure to exterminating governmental corruption in America. The question is which will come first...
As many of you already know, the good 'ol US of A is going down the crapper. The baseless rejection of background checks to purchase a gun is a slap in the face, the rejection of the assault rifle ban is a kick to the nuts, and the rejection of the high capacity magazines is nothing but icing on the cake. However I feel like everyone is caught up arguing over their interpretation of the Constitution, and missing the biggest issue of all. Congress is broken. Congress has been broken for some time now. As voters we are supposed to have the right to change this but somewhere down the line this right has been stripped from us. How voters let the government disarm us is beyond me. Elected officials should represent the needs and wants of the American people. Unfortunately, in this modern era we are being told who to vote for, not based on which elect is more qualified but based on which elect is more popular at the time. Voting has turned into a HS prom king and prom queen scenario. The cool jock always wins (ie Obama) and despite his qualifications, the less popular regular kid loses. My question is how did America get here? I blame the television. Since it's inception the TV has affected our views on things. In fact TV is what earned JFK the right to presidency. The media has made sure that as many Americans as possible have become slaves to the almighty television. Take infomercials for example. The television makes the shittiest products look amazing, all the while ensures that your purchase is "risk free!" "Buy one & get 75 free!!" "Money back guaranteed " Selling shitty products used to be a chore, that's why things of old are of some of the best quality. Televised commercials have made selling anything effortless, even politics. Far too long we have been force fed "facts" about a politicians true nature. From smear campaigns to controlled debates, the information we receive from the television is jaded before its even aired. Questions are pre-screened, people hand selected, and candidates prettied up to look as exceptionally average. Americans must be realize this and make a better effort to be cognizant. Americans must do the one thing they have been far too lazy to do, form their own goddam opinions. Take what the television says with a grain of salt, consider who is really pulling the strings. Stations have their own agenda. People have their own agenda (in this case it is my goal to convince readers to think independently of the media). My dream is a debate with no moving images, bounded by the radio with software running lie detecting software combined with a stress level monitoring system. Politicians lie, we know they lie, they know they lie. Give the voters raw data. Candidate A is lying, candidate B is nervous, candidate C is calm and collected. Encourage Americans to come to their own decisions, to formulate their own opinions based off the raw data. Do away with political parties all together. Have candidates not pitch to their corresponding party, but to the voters as a whole. Have a count of how many, and what kind of babies the candidate kisses. If you don't kiss 100 black babies you won't get my vote. I believe the story of the television will be the story of much of our modern technologies. Social media for example, is quickly becoming exactly what the television is now. A constant barrage of a select few telling the masses what to think, what to like, and how to feel. 'Like this', 'thumbs up if you agree', 'give me karma or give me death', 'my sick old grandma is dying donate money to my paypal'. The most liked comments are paraded at the top as if what was said is so profound all views must read the knowledge this person just dropped. This was the sole reason why I installed the Herp Derp extension for my Chrome account. Hell even Kickstarter is falling into the trap. Slowly becoming the go to spot for shitty artists to sell their shitty art, over-saturated with half-assed or unfinished products, and vagrants seeking out help for whatever it is vagrants need. It is my hope that one day a technology will be invented and used by the masses as it was originally intended. A technology that is built solely to save us from ourselves. A technology immune to corruption and deceit. Other than revolution, a technology that forces people to think independently is the only cure to exterminating governmental corruption in America. The question is which will come first...
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