society's dead long live society amen to that
I hadn't counted on this but I must say you work out beautifully
I'll have carte blanche to create the perfect society my society with the
purity of an end and the beauty of a flawless look you can't take away
people's right to be assholes they're really building a utopian society up
there ethics are how we build a society the true test of our higher self but
that's not the point the point is I was here first
well if you were here first you'd be holding the phone then you know we're
living in a society we supposed to act in a civilized way
long live society
she can't does anyone ever display the slightest sensitivity over the problems
of a fellow individual no not a resounding no people are what they are
now you have to learn to accept that he's about to find out the truth is far
worse than he could ever imagine if you don't follow the rules Billie bad things
happen to finish your nose willfully the ritual sucked off low class stuff like
you now some people make the rules and some people follow it's a question of
what you're born to be never were one of us
you know you really deserve what's gonna happen to you I don't think so
hey either setting you up for something bill Whitney is about to become one with
society in Beverly Hills what you fear is only the beginning
anything from society data was meant to empower hugs
instead it left us powerless scaring us into even more submission and like a
botnet the fear I created is spreading so fast it's practically airborne to
swallow this whole and while we're here they're having their way with us they
packaged our fight in the product turned our descent to intellectual property
then marked up the price this is what they do and this all started because I
tried to hide from society remember fuck society yeah all right
fuck society all right this is their greatest trick to trying the bottom
izing us into their virtual reality Horror Show who knows what could come
from this
what if instead of fighting back we cave give away our privacy for security
exchange dignity for safety and trade in revolution for repression what if we
choose weakness over strength I can stand here and blame the evil Corp and
every other conglomerate out there for taking advantage of us
blame the FBI NSA CIA all the world's leaders for aiding and abetting them
blame Adam Smith for inventing modern-day capitalism in the first
fucking place blame money for dividing us blame us for letting it but none of
that's true this is what they wanted all along
for us to buy in on our worst selves
the truth is
I'm the one to blame but I can see how all of the damage that they've caused
could finally be undone I'm hearing rumors John about some unorthodox
teaching methods in your classroom when we succeed a whole new world or vapor
language was developed for one endeavor and that is to communicate know - whoo
when the touchstone pictures presents Robin Williams as John Keating teacher
who all as this our dagger I see before me orator otitis bring your friend
hither and founder of the Dead Poets Society a bunch of guys sitting around
reading poetry no D thanks for playing anyway I hereby reconvene the Dead Poets
Society to strive to seek to find gotta do more gotta be more dare to walk a new
path dare to strike out and find new ground
what's the Dead Poets Society the dead poet's were dedicated to sucking the
marrow out of life freak out John Keating he began by teaching English now
he's changing lives I gotta put you up to it was it this new man this mr.
Keating now we're just playing around out here what do we mean what we say
just did Poets Society I want names casualties but be your hearts and soul
for the first time in my whole life I know what I want to do hello
come on see Christ man it's all about ego this whole town runs on ego yeah I'm
Bobby was that good or bad
Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living but the examined one is no
bargaining shakusky you in there Jiminy Cricket II flew the coop medicine law
business engineering these are noble pursuits poetry romance love these are
what we stay alive for seize the day John Keating he was the inspiration that
made their lives extraordinary Dead Poets Society
yes place is a comedy written by a sadistic comedy writer this is a film
about the perfect country it doesn't yet exist and it may never but thinking
about it is no idle daydream sketching utopia's is a way to address current
problems and understand how to solve them focusing on an ideal version of
something helps us more clearly define what we feel is wrong with what we have
utopia's bring our plans for reform into focus society doesn't care
society sucks therefore I propose we take a vote on making it one criminals
marks society's laws we're not a democracy democracy doesn't
work for you when you're not winning society has rules it does not work what
we created here may be unique in existence we created paradise
we're doing out here so incredible kids are amazing unless he comes out of a
book I don't know anything our children shall be philosopher killers makes me so
he described what we have
the genesis of it was me being a father grappling with my own questions of what
kind of parent he gonna be and how are you gonna be prepared in the
contemporary United States today we tried to bring the kids up in a state of
constant self-examination and self-improvement physically mentally in
all ways really I don't think you have any idea what you're doing to them I'm
saving their lives that's Monday you sounds so ridiculous
is knowing how to set a broken bone or how to treat severe burn ridiculous
knowing how to navigate by the stars and total darkness how to identify edible
plants how to make clothes from animal skins how to survive in the forest with
nothing but a knife that's ridiculous to you they're children they need to go to
school they need to learn about the world Helen Anne Jackson 13 can you tell
me what the Bill of Rights is um what something costs oh yes it's a good guess
sad you just turned eight by the way you know what the Bill of Rights is a minute
what Congress should make no law respecting an establishment of religion
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof regurgitating memorize amendments as the
one I'm asking for SOT the Bill of Rights even more like China here at
least we don't have or on the searches their free speech citizens are protected
from cruel and unusual punishments Ben and I have created here maybe unique in
all of human existence we created a paradise out of Plato's
Republic our children shall be philosopher kings because we are defined
by our actions and our words how would you characterize the 2010 Supreme Court
decision on citizens united corporations had the same rights as people so there's
no spending limit on candidates which means a country is ruled by corporations
and their lobbyists to fund candidates and command their fealty by demand news
Christ you made your point we get it
go talk to him ask her what she thinks the working people creating an armed
revolution against the exploiting classes in their state structures
Marxist can be just as genocide 'el as capitalists but whether or not she's a
dialectical materialism Court's primacy to the class struggle avoid Marxism
Trotsky trotskyist only Stalinist would call the Trotsky of
the Trotskyite and I'm not a trotskyist anymore I'm a Maoist right I forgot
sorry on Wednesday night Donald Trump did something no other presidential
nominee has ever done he refused to say that he would respect the results of
this election make no mistake by doing that it is
often upheld as one of the great virtues of American society and one of the
essential American values politicians must cherish it commentators must
celebrate it and no one is allowed under any circumstances to undermine it many
people understand the United States to be a democracy it's a term that is
commonly thrown around and this isn't correct a democracy would mean we
directly elect our leaders and that the will of the people would triumph this
isn't what happens in the u.s. the system of government we have in the u.s.
is best described as a constitutional republic we elect leaders to legislate
and make decisions on our behalf and we have a constitution that enumerates what
the government has the power to do we're used to thinking very highly of
democracy and by extension of ancient Athens the civilization that gave rise
to it it's therefore very striking to discover that one of ancient Greece's
greatest achievements philosophy was highly suspicious of its other
achievement democracy Socrates is portrayed in the dialogues of Plato as
hugely pessimistic about the whole business of democracy by comparing a
society to a ship if you were heading out on a journey by sea who would you
ideally want deciding who was in charge of the vessel just anyone or people
educated in the rules and demands of seafaring the latter of course so why
then response Socrates do we keep thinking that any old person should be
fit to judge who should be the ruler of a
country voting in an election is a skill and like any skill it needs to be taught
systematically to people letting the citizenry vote without an education is
as irresponsible as putting them in charge of a trireme sailing to Samos in
a storm many of us feel that our societies are a little or even plain
totally unfair but we have a hard time explaining our sense of injustice to the
powers that be that's why we need John Rawls a 20th century American
philosopher who provides us with a fail-proof model for identifying what
truly might be unfair and how we might gather support for fixing things he
called it the veil of ignorance Rawls asked us to imagine ourselves in a
conscious intelligent state before our own birth but without any knowledge of
what circumstances we're going to be born into our futures shrouded by a veil
of ignorance we wouldn't know what sort of parents we'd have what our
neighborhoods would be like what the local hospital could do for us and how
the police and judicial systems might treat us the question that Rawls asked
us all to contemplate is if we knew nothing about where we'd end up what
sort of a society would it feel safe to enter the veil of ignorance stops us
thinking about all those who've done quite well and draws our attention to
the appalling risks involved in entering for example us society as if it were a
lottery the veil of ignorance forces observers to accept that the country
they'd really want to be born randomly into would almost certainly be a version
of sake Switzerland or Denmark we know what sort of a society we want to live
in we just haven't focused on it properly
until now because the choices have already been made I've said it before
and I'll say it again democracy simply doesn't work
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