PROSPERITY FOR ALL EQUALS FREEDOM FOR ALL

Anyone who has ever toiled in a garden has sooner or later learned that if a weed is not uprooted it will simply grow back again to cause further trouble. We live in such a half-blind society that takes an approach to its problems like an ignorant gardener- pruning away unwanted leaves while the roots of the ills that beseige us grow ever stronger and more entrenched.
Why does this happen? Is it a lack of intelligence? No, not really. The clearest answer to this dilemma can be found when we ourselves take pains to examine the actual causes of our social concerns, such as crime, poverty, familial breakdown, etc.
When we do so, we see that the very structure of our society, with its vested intrests and powerfull controlling minority, is the ultimate causal factor.
Why do we have crime in our society? It is because of the way our society is built.
Why is there poverty in our society? Because our society is based on exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.
So clearly, any society that is the cause of its own problems is ill-equipped to provide their solutions.
Conversely, a truly free society has little interest in trying to maintain the disequalities that are foundational to the breakdown of order and are the main generators of violence. A free society organizes itself to maximize prosperity for everyone, not just a few at the ‘top’. Freedom is autophilic- self-loving, and seizes every opportunity to grow and expand its reach. The only way to counter it is through direct opposition, that is, through the establishment of social structures that work constantly to impede it. Thusly we have an educational system that actively resists free inquiry, a legal system that favours wealth and discourages the search for truth, a political system of narrow, static options that claims to represent the wishes of tens of millions of individuals, and an economic system that pursues profit at the expense of life itself.
The solution then, as i have been advocating throughout these posts, is the restructuring of society along deliberate, radically free, vlaues-based lines.
The rational person, seeing that something no longer functions, discards it, rather than expending inordinate amounts of energy and resources propping up the failure. A prime example of this short-sighted self-destructive method is to be found in the response to the economic meltdown (itself the result of a pathological financial system). Instead of taking the opportunity to educate the public and work together to find equitable solutions to help the true victims (complitic though they may have been), ie. consumers, the government instead dumped nearly a trillion dollars into the very institutions whose practices led to the crisis in the first place. This is not intelligence at work- it is fraud, on a massive scale, and no sane populace should feel under any obligation to continue to support or validate such an utterly corrupt system.