reply to post by juleol
Protesting is sure better than sitting on your ass doing nothing. At least if you had a large crowd protesting this would wake up more people, which
could led to a positive change in the future.
Most people today don't even know how corrupted the FDA is and believe they even are here for our well being when they are in fact for the big
corp.
My neighbors dog regularly wakes me up with his barking protest, this doesn't give me any clue as to what the hell the dog's problem is. The
"Occupy" crowd seem to be demonstrating the same sort of barking, waking up people who still have no idea, only now they're annoyed at all the
barking dogs.
Most people think "civil rights" is a sacred cow. Most people think rights can only come from government. Most people think legislation is law. I
sometimes wonder if these people think they can homestead and grow fruitful crops on a map, while they drive the word describing a tractor, and smoke
pictures of cigarettes wondering why they cannot placate their nicotine addiction.
Waking these people up means accepting responsibility for that action. Assuming just simply waking them is all that is needed sets up failure as the
most likely outcome
People will wake up when they are ready to wake up, individually and each at their own pace. The notion of a mass consciousness evolving to higher
awareness is naive. More times than not, when people surrender their thought to a collective consciousness, things go horribly awry. Collective
consciousness tends to produce events such as
The Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror (5 September 1793, to 28 July 1794) (the latter is date 9 Thermidor, year II of the French Revolutionary Calendar),[1] also
known simply as The Terror (French: la Terreur), was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict
between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution." Estimates vary
widely as to how many were killed, with numbers ranging from 16,000 to 40,000; in many cases, records were not kept or, if they were, they are
considered likely to be inaccurate. The guillotine (called the "National Razor") became the symbol of the revolutionary cause, strengthened by a
string of executions: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, the Girondins, Philippe Égalité (Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans) and Madame Roland, as well
as many others, such as pioneering chemist Antoine Lavoisier, lost their lives under its blade.
A less known moment of collective madness is
The Hartlepool Monkey
Incident:
The monkey-hanging legend is the most famous story connected with Hartlepool. During the Napoleonic Wars a French ship was wrecked off the
Hartlepool coast.
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The fishermen of Hartlepool fearing an invasion kept a close watch on the French vessel as it struggled against the storm but when the vessel was
severely battered and sunk they turned their attention to the wreckage washed ashore. Among the wreckage lay one wet and sorrowful looking survivor,
the ship's pet monkey dressed to amuse in a military style uniform.
The fishermen apparently questioned the monkey and held a beach-based trial. Unfamiliar with what a Frenchman looked like they came to the conclusion
that this monkey was a French spy and should be sentenced to death. The unfortunate creature was to die by hanging, with the mast of a fishing boat (a
coble) providing a convenient gallows.
Let people wake up when they will and do what they can as individuals toward this collective endeavor of freedom, lest we become some mindless mob
hanging monkeys.