"The law exists to protect those in power. It falls within any society’s rights and responsibilities to protect themselves from a government of institutionalized violence. A change in power structures is not as far-fetched as many would have us to believe, limited by their own imaginations, and distilled by the indoctrination of capitalist credo that government exists to protect the people. It has not. Within my initial direction of the idea of rights and responsibilities, I think, goes one step further. I do not believe most societies would fall in plunder and anarchy if given the chance to rule themselves, to have rights themselves, because inside most individuals there lies a different credo, one of assumed rights and responsibilities towards oneself."

"Rights and Responsibilities"
https://www.richardjtilley.com/and-such/rights-and-responsibilities

#capitalism #responsibility #freesociety #TheOrville #WalterBenjamin #policestate #Politics #justice #technology #ErnestBecker @politicalscience

"The law exists to protect those in power. It falls within any society’s rights and responsibilities to protect themselves from a government of institutionalized violence. A change in power structures is not as far-fetched as many would have us to believe, limited by their own imaginations, and distilled by the indoctrination of capitalist credo that government exists to protect the people. It has not. Within my initial direction of the idea of rights and responsibilities, I think, goes one step further. I do not believe most societies would fall in plunder and anarchy if given the chance to rule themselves, to have rights themselves, because inside most individuals there lies a different credo, one of assumed rights and responsibilities towards oneself."

"Rights and Responsibilities"
https://www.richardjtilley.com/and-such/rights-and-responsibilities

#capitalism #responsibility #freesociety #TheOrville #WalterBenjamin #policestate #Politics #justice #technology #ErnestBecker

At one point in the essay I may have gone off the deep end and taken from #WalterBenjamin and #ErnestBecker to posit that the public at large who maintain a culture based on #capitalism, #consumerism, the police state, and a radical right wing, exist within a psychological profile of being in denial of their own incestual impulses. Believe it or not I managed to cite Nobel laureate, #AmartyaSen for that one. ;0

@sociology @education