Why A True Democracy Will Never Exist

In my opinion the only way one can exist is if every citizen is well informed. This can only happen if all important information is given out to the democracy's citizens. However, once information becomes public then it becomes a liability. I think we can all agree that a country can only have so much transparency before you start to give away too much information about what you know; imagine if our adversaries knew everything that we knew about them. However once you hide any information than the democracy is a farce since we have to have faith in our elected officials to act in our best interest.

Democratic-republic is bollocks imo, because it is impossible for any group of people to assume the best interests of a larger group without putting their own best interests ahead. Might not happen for every single elected official but there are bad apples in every batch...Democracy is impossible and we're all screwed.

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Going Back to Skoo

After deciding that I was going to go to UCLA for grad skoo, every time I am in the area kicking it I wonder what it'll be like having my life be there again. As much as I had missed the college life I am not looking forward to going back to ucla. I think it's partially a feeling that I need to be in a different physical place to be moving on with my life. I think the rest of it has to do with how I viewed college before going there the first time, when I was a senior in high school, to how I view it now. Or at least every time I think about it now I think about what my perception was back then. Obv it was exciting because it was new and it was going to be my first real taste of freedom and all that. I also remember thinking the whole area seemed very big. Its funny how small places start to feel once you know where everything is.

Probably another part of it has to do with the fact that it's way down on my list of where I wanted to be in my life at this point. That's more my fault though. Oh well.

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Go Huffington Post

So I read this
article today about how there are some companies like Berkshire Hathaway that pay their taxes, unlike those bastards at GE, Exxon Mobil, Conoco Phillips, and Johnson & Johnson (not talked about in the same article but HuffPo's run stories on how terrible those companies are for not paying taxes and taking subsidies while having multi-billion dollar profits). I really love how HuffPo failed to acknowledge that Berkshire owns large swaths of shares in the same bastards (GE, Exxon Mobil, Conoco Phillips, and Johnson & Johnson) that they tear apart in their other articles.

I guess what really irks me more than anything is that I found this article up on the front page of reddit, and nowhere in the comments did anyone mention this obvious fact. Everyone gets so worked up about the state of our economy yet the average person remains fucking clueless about even the most basic facts. How can you rant about something that you know nothing about? Hasn't stopped people for the past few thousand and I guess its going to continue. I think one day I'm going to get old and tired of trying to make a difference and I'll just begin to take advantage of every fucking retard (aka 99% of the public) who fails to educate himself about things he claims to know enough about to be angry about.

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