| theprof00 said: I see what you mean. So leave it up to the people to realize what's important to them. I can agree there. I just feel like I'm sure someone is out there who can foresee these negatives and work to minimize them early. I would think that's the governments job, but as I'm becoming increasingly aware, government isn't a highly conspiratorial all knowing entity, but more of just a system that's really bad at its job. :D |
Yeah, basically. The more government does, the less people feel like they have to care or even know what's going on for just that reason. There's always a feeling that the experts must have a handle on things, even when judging from the results they very clearly do not, or at least that if those smart guys can't figure it out, there's no way that the average person can, so why bother trying?
And naturally as things become so big and complex, it becomes easier for politicians to feed at the trough because it's hard for most people to see just what's going on - and real, positive changes become harder to enact because of all the inertia built into the system.
