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Originally Posted by jammies
I want extreme punitive measures against those who defy the law for their personal gain under the cloak of "sharp business practice". I want intellectual property laws which are slanted towards encouraging creativity rather than rewarding the proprietors of content whose originators are long dead, or whose "property" is nothing but words about an obvious process. I want sustained governmental pressure against regimes like China's that care nothing for human rights, regardless of what that might do to trade with such regimes. I want the end of the apartheid-like system of reserves for Natives. I want unrestricted freedom of speech. I want privacy rights for the individual to trump the right of corporations to retain, obtain, and analyze personal data. I want the legal system to be impartial and not about who can afford the best lawyer. And that's just the start.
There's many, many things that I want. Getting together with people that also want things, whether they be sensible things as I see them - or not - is a worthwhile thing even if all it does is signal that people are discontent and are starting to care enough about being discontented to organize. I don't deny that we live in a place that the rest of the world envies, but it didn't get that way by listening to those who felt that the status quo was just fine as it was, and it won't stay that way by sitting around grumbling at those ungrateful kids who just don't know when they've got it good.
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Great. Going and hanging out on the island all day is certainly going to "raise awareness" of all of that, and it might even magically accomplish all of that.
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Originally Posted by jammies
Seriously, listen to yourselves. The bulk of you sound just like any other group of conservative elders who moan and gripe that "in my day, a little elbow grease and a chipper attitude was enough to solve any problem, by Gad!" It's easy to sit back and be cynical and to tell yourself that human nature is unchangeable, but not at all as easy to look at yourself and wonder if it's just you that is now impervious to change.
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Seriously listen to yourself. You've got all these gripes about the way things are, but your only contribution to fixing it is to hang out on an island all day?
Call me old and crotchety all you want, but bitching and commiserating in a little hippie dance never solved a damn thing, so how about actually doing something with your time, if there's so much that needs repair?
Pick your battle, and go for it. It's the governemnt that's pissing you off? Go run for office and change it. The law industry is your source of scorn? Are you a lawyer? Go get your degree and change things.
And please don't tell me I'm crazy for saying that you really need to actually work to achieve change.