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N: And that is how the United States rolls… blatant hypocracy. 

Remember the Declaration of Independence (want to read it)?  That beautiful idealistic document of human rights…”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” This is the part that most people are familiar with, but this document has much more to reveal.  

According to the Declaration of Independence, all of this peaceful protesting for change and these public displays of social disparity have already been predicted.  It reads:

“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

We consent to our government by participating in it, using public facilities and programs, spending our money on it and by educating ourselves on the realities of the world so we can be safe and happy. If we do not consent, we need to create new systems that work for us.

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”

Understand the complexities of your government, and even within a well-established system careful change is necessary.  But know that historically, humans have settled with a bit of tolerable suffering through various mishandled systems rather than creating new ones (laziness? apathy?).  

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.”

So basically, the people who founded this country were extremely unsatisfied with the systems established in Great Britain.  When they were in a “new world” (which is truly a beautiful country with mostly beautiful people) they wanted to make sure that no future Americans would be stuck in a system that does not work.  We have the right as humans and Americans to do away with any broken systems and to create new systems that emulate our evolving population.  Using the knowledge we have today to erase the mistakes of the past and move our country forward toward human progress is the ultimate goal and any systems standing in the way of that need to be abolished.  

If you watch the video above, you will notice that there is a global realization of broken systems. The safety nets of the past are withering away and the protesters are the only ones who seem to care.  They are the ones putting their humanity on the line for the betterment of the human condition.  

They are the peaceful and soulful representatives of those who understand that our broken systems need to be changed.  This is our country and our world and we need to customize it to our level of intelligence.  We are not the same people we were in 1776; we are a much more advanced and educated nation.  The design of our society must reflect our intelligence.  Or does it already do this?

Now some of you are saying… not all of us are that smart.  Truth be told, failing/decaying educational infrastructure, broken homes, abuse/violence and poverty prevent too many of our citizens from becoming as educated as they could potentially be.  These cause an infinite amount of social problems such as addictions/self-medicating, alienation/apathy, creating new means to attain wealth outside of the enforced legal systems which leads to overcrowded prisons, a fearful/anxious population and outlier outbursts of all of these tensions (one such example).  

What should the citizens do?  Educate themselves.  

Being aware of more realities allows you to realize:

how much more powerful you are with this knowledge.  

that purposefully chosen political rhetoric is clearly manipulative.

how dumbed-down propaganda and advertising is.

and how unnecessarily dramatic the commercial [corporate] news media is about topics that are not realities.

I am continuing to learn more about us and it continues to give me a better grasp on my place in this world.

More fun reading: Wikipedia Definition of a Social Movement.  [I especially love the theories of social movements.  And I’m super into this mostly because I graduated with a B.A. in Sociology from California State University in Northridge.]

I couldn’t help but read the stated mission of the Sociology Department from CSUN:

“Our Mission: The Sociology Department and faculty are committed to creating a supportive environment for student centered learning and achievement. Our students are exposed to all aspects of sociology and acquire sociological perspectives and the techniques for studying society. They learn to critically examine the value assumptions of our institutions and social practices, including the values and practices of our discipline itself. This reflexive stance is an essential element of sociological understanding. Our students will learn how sociology has been used to solve problems for clients, foundations, agencies, and the community, and has contributed to social policy formulation and policy analysis. They will learn how sociologists engage in dialog and engagement with different publics in the civil society. Through their education, our students will understand that sociology and civil society are interdependent, both flourishing in an open and democratic discourse on the issues and crises of modernity.”