I know it is a bitter pill to swallow, but I have talked with many already with which this strikes a chord. I know when I first thought this (against years of self-instituted brain washing)I was repulsed with the fact that I had been complicit in "their" scheme. I tend to lean towards the same conclusions regarding the whole democratic process, but I don't want to shoot myself in the foot before this can even get off the ground.
The argument can still be made that you're giving tacit approval to the choice of the thousand tyrants nearest you, just by living here...
You're absolutely right. There are a hundred other ways that we implicitly sign the social contract every day (just living here). And I don't believe that they are all for the worst. But it seems to me that no other consent carries with it the full hypocritical mix of illusion of freedom, choice, control and duty as that of the religion of voting.
You know what I'm picturing, don't you? A few people standing, perhaps marching in a ragtag circle, outside a polling station carrying picket signs sullenly chanting, "Hell No, We Won't Vote!"
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The argument can still be made that you're giving tacit approval to the choice of the thousand tyrants nearest you, just by living here...
You're absolutely right. There are a hundred other ways that we implicitly sign the social contract every day (just living here). And I don't believe that they are all for the worst. But it seems to me that no other consent carries with it the full hypocritical mix of illusion of freedom, choice, control and duty as that of the religion of voting.
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