stbenge wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>>   However, unfortunately, the world just doesn't work that way.
>> Wishing it
>> did doesn't make it so. Crime won't stop by wishful thinking, the need
>> for
>> a police force (in all senses of the term, including at international
>> level)
>> doesn't go away by simply wishing so. Major problems aren't solved by
>> protest marches (not in the long run anyways). Unfortunately even world
>> hunger will not be solved by simply blindly throwing money to the
>> problem.
>>
>>   The basic problem I see with the hippie ideology is that it wishes the
>> world was simple, while it isn't. The world is very complicated.
> 
> Are we past the point of being able to make a major democratic movement
> (as in the Boston Tea Party)? That was quite a revolution! It actually
> made a difference.
> 
> Sam
> 

In the USA, we are pretty close to that point. Look at the media circus
around the student who got tased.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Florida_Taser_incident

In all that, people got their cell phone cameras out. Who jumped up and
actually defended the guy? I can't believe that everyone in that room
knew this guy was 'a prankster', if that part of the story is true. So
why did no one stand up and help?

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