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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 22 2012 @ 09:29 AM EDT |
I'm not the OP but where I live (NZ) we are generally doing OK. That is probably
because we generally fix our hopeless messes as quickly as possible. Software
is not patentable here.
Every country runs into hopeless messes from time to time. But some countries
are a lot better at running out of them. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 22 2012 @ 06:02 PM EDT |
You're certainly well programmed by your society.
When anything negative is being said about your country or whatever it is you
identify with, you immediately attack others by saying they're not any better.
"It's not just me! Everybody else is at least just as bad! Look at them,
not me!"
It is a very good strategy for avoiding admitting that you (as in plural you,
the set of people you identify with) would really need to do something to fix
these issues. Instead, you can just point a finger at others, saying how they're
even worse, and keep doing nothing about any of it. In other words, it is an
effective distraction strategy. Look, a wookiee! On planet Endor!
Very well played, sir, very well indeed.
As to myself, I'm still wondering exactly how I could better my own society. The
problems are different, and in most ways not as bad as in the U.S. (crime,
organized crime, corruption, legal system favouring money over justice and so
on), although worse in some other ways (non-lethal violence is more prevalent;
bureaucratic red tape especially related to small and medium enterprises). The
big problems need a lot of time to solve, and currently everybody is looking at
short term solutions only; something that might take years or even decades to
fix just feels too big to most people to even think about. Things like injustice
or trollish litigation only happens to other people, so they do not interest the
population in general; it is very hard to get people even talking about it in
serious terms.
Currently, I only help by solving problems others cannot, for free, and try to
show how a different approach -- the free software movement approach in general
terms -- yields reliable, honest, just solutions. I wish I had the strength to
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