I hate to rain on people's parade but....

[patrice]

46. There ARE problems, but mischaracterizing them looks like propaganda about Big Brother and, hence,

under-cuts any validity to your point. What's more important specific ISSUES, like poverty, health care, and education, that affect people's lives without their consent and which a majority of people might feel do not have their due valence in social actions, or your reaction to perceived power.

Perhaps you and I have different definitions of freedom. Personally, I consider exclusively reactionary responses to any/all other-power (i.e. power that is not my own) to be a product of slave mentality which endows those other-powers with more power than I would wish to give them and, in so doing, it abdicates my own power in the process, especially as I lose alternative response options to reactionary dictates that propagandize against alernative options and devalues them relative to the slavish need to engage in mutually assured radicalization and, ultimately, destruction with any and all forms of other-power.

In short, I don't do death-struggle. I think it's stupid and self-defeating.