codify,
thank you for the article by neil smith. if you go back and refer to it, you may see that what is going on in this very thread is an attempt to sway individuals into a consensus on a political point of contention.
we all know that the power of the jury has been trumped by the corruption of judges who have taken it upon themselves to instruct juries on how they can or cannot think and how they can or cannot act.
we all know that congress has been corrupted by party influence, corporate influence, media influence and influence of every sort of group thought that stops short of individual liberty.
if we extrapolate, we can understand that a revolution, much needed in today's society, cannot be initiated by any group or organization as the map of political idealism is divided on far too many fronts to make it possible to build a cohesive group which agrees on solution and is large enough to make a difference.
96% of congress, ironically (or not?) appears to be very close to the number of our not so esteemed "representatives" who are in the pockets of corporate collectivists thus indirectly under control of.....well. call it the fed, the crown, the city, the cfr, illuminatti, or any other proper noun that leads by proper extrapolation to the source of human stagnation.
sociopaths control the world because sociopaths have a need to control it, and that need is derived from an acute lack of self control.
there is a revolution afoot, and it is gaining momentum, some days by fits and starts, other days by leaps and bounds.
this new revolution is not being carried out by a single movement, a single group or a single manifesto. it is a revolution of a legion of individuals acting independently or in small groups, not only in america or the western world, but all over the globe, to wake up their neighbors and do what they can on their own or in relatively small groups to throw monkey wrenches into the gears of the sociopathic machine of ignorance.
yes, it appears to be too little too late, slow and plodding and even ineffectual. but look closer. look at the passion of the few contributing to this very thread and then expand your view to the thousands of threads, blogs and web sites that are springing up faster than the "powers that be" can shut them down and you begin to realize that something is happening that cannot be stopped.
yes, no doubt the socios have much hell to dish out to us yet, but do not let yourself succumb to entertaining the thought that it is over, that they have won.
as long as your heart beats free and your thoughts remain your own, you are the winner.