laser... seriously...
What is "wrong" with us is... comfort. A lot of us older guys have spent time in the woods or have been seriously injured and have, at one time or another been broke beyond anything most today can imagine.
Many of us have hidden from armies or police and been on the run.
Now... we have homes and families and well... comfort. the comfort makes us willing to slowly lose our freedoms... so long as it doesn't happen too fast and we can see a personal way out.
Most of us feel we can milk the corrupt and evil system or appease it long enough to get enough money to hide from the infringmets on freedom..
The guys dieing at government hands or losing their life savings or being imprisoned are not us... we are too smart right? we are too divided.
We are also afraid of our neigbors... we have been taught that they are dangerous and expensive to maintain and that they are the problem and that only the government can save us. If our neigbors have guns they will kill us.. if they don't wear seatbelts or speed or do drugs or eat fatty food or smoke or don't mow their lawn the right way or part their hair correctly... it will cost us billions a year in taxes or other costs...
We must have wars on drugs or crime or terror and war.... is governments job right? "militia" is a dirty word or... twisted to mean "another government army but local"
We have been told that only the government can raise children or educate them and that we are allowed to pay for the privlidge.
We are told that we are destroying the globe... that we are making it warmer. We need to be restricted.
We are told that people not only have the right to pursue happiness but that there should be some sort of minimum guarentee of happiness no matter how little we do or how much we do to make our lives misserable.
Soooo... it is pretty easy to ignore when someone we don't know is killed by the government or imprisoned for many years for failing to pay a fee or using a substance that is on a banned list.
So long as we are comfortable... things aren't too bad yet. chances are... nothing too bad will come down on us before we die anyhow.
lazs