The only reason I'm really writing here is because it's yet another avenue of distraction from div3. Ha.
As I'm writing this thing I've been thinking alot about the problems of our current nation-state framework, as well as the problems of how liberalism can't address abuses of power. It's an incomplete system - it's not even a political system, merely a legal system. What we really need is a political system - that is, a system which governs the interactions between men, not men and the state. Or maybe not so much as governs as educates and elucidates. We've got lots of problems. I'd wager some of them have to do with a lack of education.
So few bother the challenge the liberal model. So few bother to actually investigate whether or not the current system adequately represents mankind. And so few notice the huge, gaping hole in liberalism that doesn't allow it to check abuses of power, which is why structural violence plays such a large part in today's world. We talk about human dignity, yet it's seemingly only white folks in white-majority nations who can find it.
We're living in a post-colonial era where neocolonialism has a stranglehold on minorities. And we've got to work our way out of this. We've got a find a way to get to a point where all human beings are viewed as being of equal human worth. I'm not entirely sure how we get there, but I know the first step is ensuring that everyone can see that we need to get there - essentially, that there is a problem. But as long as no one bothers to challenge the fundamental established order of things, we'll continue to live in a hollow civilization. And we could do so much better.
As I'm writing this thing I've been thinking alot about the problems of our current nation-state framework, as well as the problems of how liberalism can't address abuses of power. It's an incomplete system - it's not even a political system, merely a legal system. What we really need is a political system - that is, a system which governs the interactions between men, not men and the state. Or maybe not so much as governs as educates and elucidates. We've got lots of problems. I'd wager some of them have to do with a lack of education.
So few bother the challenge the liberal model. So few bother to actually investigate whether or not the current system adequately represents mankind. And so few notice the huge, gaping hole in liberalism that doesn't allow it to check abuses of power, which is why structural violence plays such a large part in today's world. We talk about human dignity, yet it's seemingly only white folks in white-majority nations who can find it.
We're living in a post-colonial era where neocolonialism has a stranglehold on minorities. And we've got to work our way out of this. We've got a find a way to get to a point where all human beings are viewed as being of equal human worth. I'm not entirely sure how we get there, but I know the first step is ensuring that everyone can see that we need to get there - essentially, that there is a problem. But as long as no one bothers to challenge the fundamental established order of things, we'll continue to live in a hollow civilization. And we could do so much better.
