Outside Of The Box On Friday The 13th
Given it is Friday the 13th, I thought I'd put up what many will view as a controversial video. Why controversial? Because it tugs at many people's belief systems. What's Friday the 13th without some uneasiness? Ralph Nader has generally been successfully portrayed as a radical fringe element by those benefiting from the status quo. Ron Paul, another free thinker, has also been portrayed as a radical fringe element. Nader is a liberal. Paul is a conservative. Actually Paul is also a liberal. It's just how one decides to interpret the word. Our political engines, having undue influence on the media, help shape what we believe. I suspect Ron Paul and Ralph Nader have more in common than any two people so portrayed in the media as radically different. Paul believes in personal liberties and so does Nader. Anyone espousing personal liberties throughout history has been a liberal. Gandhi was a liberal. Jesus Christ was a liberal. The great Buddha was a liberal. Martin Luther King was a liberal. And Thomas Jefferson was a liberal. Because increasing personal liberties has always been against the desires of the status quo. Or of generally held beliefs of the time.
One should not assume I espouse particular political views because of the above statements. You would likely be incorrect. Mostly because I know every person's true beliefs are beyond some silly definition set forth by the media and political machines. I don't talk about politics on here because I consider the topic as framed by the media and politicians as completely ridiculous. It's a little like Mark Twain's old saying, "Don't let schooling interfere with your education.". In other words, release yourself from the silliness that spin machines have perpetuated on society. Both parties are mirror images. They feed off of each other and consciously perpetuate their monopolies and the status quo.
In this video Nader talks about personal freedoms and the concept of corporations gaining Constitutional 'rights'. Because few people ever care to learn about history and even fewer ever question the status quo, we generally find that many accept most anything perpetuated in the media as truth. Nader argued nearly twenty years ago to the day the very fact he is again discussing in this video as it pertains to corporate influence over our form of government and how it impacts the rights of citizens. And, how it is surely it does not benefit those whom the Constitution was meant to protect - us.
I don't agree with everything Ralph Nader espouses and I don't agree with everything Ron Paul espouses. But, I do agree with the rights of people to espouse whatever they want. And, I am naturally attracted to those who think beyond the obvious with new or compelling strategies or perspectives. So, I find both of these men intriguing. Mostly because the obvious perspective is almost always wrong. Of course, I also find Barack Obama and John McCain intriguing because they also don't fit a traditional mold the status quo would have us accept.
On Friday the 13th, let's peer into some of the "how's and why's" we have government bailing out corporations for their obvious incompetence. Incompetence that also significantly benefited those who were the most incompetent. All while citizens are generally left to fend for themselves. Because indeed what Nader is talking about plays a large role in why it is happening.
One should not assume I espouse particular political views because of the above statements. You would likely be incorrect. Mostly because I know every person's true beliefs are beyond some silly definition set forth by the media and political machines. I don't talk about politics on here because I consider the topic as framed by the media and politicians as completely ridiculous. It's a little like Mark Twain's old saying, "Don't let schooling interfere with your education.". In other words, release yourself from the silliness that spin machines have perpetuated on society. Both parties are mirror images. They feed off of each other and consciously perpetuate their monopolies and the status quo.
In this video Nader talks about personal freedoms and the concept of corporations gaining Constitutional 'rights'. Because few people ever care to learn about history and even fewer ever question the status quo, we generally find that many accept most anything perpetuated in the media as truth. Nader argued nearly twenty years ago to the day the very fact he is again discussing in this video as it pertains to corporate influence over our form of government and how it impacts the rights of citizens. And, how it is surely it does not benefit those whom the Constitution was meant to protect - us.
I don't agree with everything Ralph Nader espouses and I don't agree with everything Ron Paul espouses. But, I do agree with the rights of people to espouse whatever they want. And, I am naturally attracted to those who think beyond the obvious with new or compelling strategies or perspectives. So, I find both of these men intriguing. Mostly because the obvious perspective is almost always wrong. Of course, I also find Barack Obama and John McCain intriguing because they also don't fit a traditional mold the status quo would have us accept.
On Friday the 13th, let's peer into some of the "how's and why's" we have government bailing out corporations for their obvious incompetence. Incompetence that also significantly benefited those who were the most incompetent. All while citizens are generally left to fend for themselves. Because indeed what Nader is talking about plays a large role in why it is happening.
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