02 April 2002

It amazes me, the self imposed separation of people between themselves and their government in this country. If a person is in favor of an administration's position, then any execution of the administration's agenda in lieu of an absence of promulgation of the agenda is dismissed as letting the "experts do what they do best". If a person is in opposition to an administration's agenda, the person ostracizes himself from a government that no longer represents him and hence apathy stains the conscience.

Unfortunately, these scenarios are neither democracy nor freedom at work. Jean-Paul Satre declared that total freedom is total responsibility. In our culture dominated by an exploitation of surplus value, when labor goes beyond the demands of necessary production, we face not only the difficult task of being free but also finding the time to be free.

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