Originally Posted by irateplatypus

it's very fashionable to be anti-establishment, listen to some faux-anarchy band, and wear a shirt from hot-topic...

but aren't you able to access any media from any source? aren't there more voices than there have ever been? can more people not vote on more issues than ever before? is the anti-establishment voice not given its proper hearing?

the feeling of disempowerment that pervades society isn't because of some external repression, it's much too easy to think of it like that... and it's a copout. there is no big brother.

as a true conservative who believes in less government and less oversight than either political party seems to want... few are more wary of a controlling government than i. it just isn't there. we've gone from fear of tyranny from the state to an actual tyranny of the individual. each person his own warden.

how many fingers do you see?