With increasing government bureaucracy, red tape, and taxation, a growing number of people could feel less and less heard by the powers that control their lives. Out of frustration, they do things that mirror that lack of respectful listening. They push their prayers and creches on unbelievers, they blow cigarette smoke on nonsmoking diners, they use their guns for threat or revenge, they riot in the streets.
Then the government decides to grow up more bureaucracy, red tape, and taxation to keep public prayer out of public schools, to remove creches from courthouse lawns, to ban smoking in public places, to register or outlaw guns, to enforce curfews, and to keep more frustrated people in more prisons.
Americans don’t like the new restrictions on their liberties, and if they don’t feel heard on the deeper issues like freedom of religion, the pursuit of individual pleasures, and the preservation of physical safety, for instance, then frustrations continue to mount.
The solution seems to be more and bigger prisons that encroach on our subdivisions, and even the possibility of martial law that will envelop our streets.
Making our streets safe for freedom may have cost us our freedom.
Of course, these vignettes reflect the picture as I see it, not necessarily how you see it or how the President of the United States sees it. With that disclaimer out of the way, I will state boldly that I propose an alternative model for achieving power and influence. (See the next posting about the Synergystic Cycle.)
