now one might say: Kropotkin, poor deluded Kropotkin…
don’t you know that America is held by a small faction of
people who run America and run the world…
these people (depending upon the person, they may list
groups as diverse as) the Jews, the Trilateral commission,
the illuminati, the New world order, the Rothschild’s, the Bilderberg group,
some sort of secret cabal that is nameless, aliens from space, and any
series of random secret groups that they might name…
and perhaps, they are right, perhaps…but we cannot define who we
are by belief in some random conspiracy theories…
we must hold to what we can see and we can only see our government
in action as it practices ethical theories in real time…
the budget of America is a moral document and as such, we
can judge it that way… and given that the budget, supported
by the very numbers it gives, to the military and the entitlement
sector and the sciences and academia, we see what we morally
believe in…we don’t practice morality in private or in isolation…
morality is practice by us collectively… and is exhibited/displayed by
such moral documents as our budget…
so what is the foundational principles we hold to be present
as American’s in our yearly budget?
Do we hold to the truth that “all men are equal”
as a principle to be followed in our federal or state budgets?
NO, no I say…we don’t follow that guiding principle in our
creation of federal or state budgets… the old saying is “follow the money”
and in following the money, we can see what our priorities are…
and it certainly isn’t in the guiding ideal that “all men are created equal”
for if we give massive tax breaks to the wealthy or to corporations, then
we are not being guided by the principle of “all men are created equal”
for corporations are not people, despite the often quoted lie to that effect…
for who owns the corporation? why stockholders and if they are not held responsible
for the corporation actions, then why should we individuals be held accountable
for our actions? what we have here is a double standard… individuals owning
a corporation cannot be held liable for actions done by the corporations in their name,
every action a corporation does, does in the name of it stockholders, read the mission
statement of every single corporation and the pursuit of profits is often listed first…
and who does the pursuit of profits benefit? why those who own the corporation,
the stockholders…and so they must be held accountable for the actions of
the corporations that they own… just as I must be held accountable for what I
own… if my steps to my condo lead to someone getting hurt, I am held responsible,
and as well I should be, but a person who owns stock is somehow exempt from
any accountability or responsibility for the actions of the corporation that they
own is the denial of the very point of accountability of people for what they own…
so you want to hold these so called secret groups accountable, then begin
by hold them responsible for actions committed by what they own…
the corporations and the businesses…………
holding people and corporation and wealthy individuals and presidents
and congressmen accountable is the start of reforming our government…
and our lives………
you want to undermine the so called secret cabals that run our lives,
then begin by making them accountable and responsible for their actions…
But Kropotkin… they won’t be held responsible… now you are just using
excuses to avoid actually trying to hold them accountable, responsible…
until you try, actually try to hold them accountable, then you have
no basis upon which to complain or grip about them…if you won’t do
anything, then you cannot voice your opinion… action must occur
before we can complain about something…… otherwise we are not,
in good faith, attempting to change anything… and it is in the attempt
to make changes that define us as human beings…it is not in our beliefs
that make us human, but in our actions…so, believe in secret conspiracies?
great, then do something about it…make the changes you think is needed…
for it is in change that defines us as human beings… think of the human beings
that we build statues of… and it is in the changes that they fought for,
that we believe in, that is the reason we build statues… for those who
created changes in what they believe in…
make the changes and perhaps, one day… we will build a statue to you…
Kropotkin