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I really don't get why you have to tie yourself to a general side to what the government considers. I mean, there are general things that we all talk about and discuss of, approve and disapprove... but really... does just one side really take all those things into perspective?

I know I may still be young and don't have much to worry about, but I am not sure under which "side" this government gives us that I am considered.

What are your views on this whole ordeal? Or am I rambling?

Classifications such as parties are merely for convenience, they simply mean the group or ideals you most agree with. It's just to give someone a general idea of your beliefs. Or at least that's how I understand it.

I hear that they're cutting funding for the arts again, and pushing for longer school days. No Child Left Behind (tm) has stiffened the structural rigormarole so tightly that creative thought is becoming nigh forgotten. I think that artistic creativity is the precursor to any sort of intellectual independence possible. We'll basically become a nation of sheep, if we keep up on this route.

That's how I see it, at least. I've never seen much use for organized parties except to just have a large group of people to drive a point, you know?

"Thus Ouida is right when she maintains that "the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls."

Yet even a flock of sheep would resist the chicanery of the State, if it were not for the corruptive, tyrannical, and oppressive methods it employs to serve its purposes. Therefore Bakunin repudiates the State as synonymous with the surrender of the liberty of the individual or small minorities; the destruction of social relationship, the curtailment, or complete denial even, of life itself, for its own aggrandizement. The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice. "

-Emma Goldman

tell that to japan, id hardly call them sheep. some of the worlds strangest stuff comes from that island