Pirates will always find a way, that's a given. The problem, as you know, is that pirates aren't the target - control of the general public has always been the agenda. People are cattle to the eyes of those on top. It's Cleopatra's advice to Caesar - "first you take what they give you, then take a little more, then a little more, until eventually you have it all."
What to do about it is far from a silly question. If anything, it's the most important question of all, and to answer it with an equal response to the problem is to risk being branded insane, social ridicule or scorn, exile, and/or probably jail time. It's one I've been asking myself every morning for a couple of decades now because this situation isn't anything new. You keep working within the system to change it at every level - local / city is every bit as important as Federal because those politicians are moving up under the radar. And since all systems collapse by nature, when the unthinkable occurs, we can either choose to stay within it, or we can rebel. V for Vendetta, Star Wars, and a number of other speculative fictions paint a pretty good picture of what that entails. History paints an even better picture (Rome, Nazi Germany, etc.). To quote Obi-Wan, "you must do what you think is right, of course."
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Date: 2012-01-24 12:40 pm (UTC)What to do about it is far from a silly question. If anything, it's the most important question of all, and to answer it with an equal response to the problem is to risk being branded insane, social ridicule or scorn, exile, and/or probably jail time. It's one I've been asking myself every morning for a couple of decades now because this situation isn't anything new. You keep working within the system to change it at every level - local / city is every bit as important as Federal because those politicians are moving up under the radar. And since all systems collapse by nature, when the unthinkable occurs, we can either choose to stay within it, or we can rebel. V for Vendetta, Star Wars, and a number of other speculative fictions paint a pretty good picture of what that entails. History paints an even better picture (Rome, Nazi Germany, etc.). To quote Obi-Wan, "you must do what you think is right, of course."
How's that for a non-answer?