THE PRESENT ERA of POLITICAL and ECONOMIC ALIENATION

The present system of centralised government in the west is divisive. Through its present bureaucratic, overly regulated and administered systems of taxation, restrictive regulation, subsidies, welfare, healthcare, education and policing, the government plays too great a role in controlling the lives of individual members of society.

“All of us who are concerned for peace and the triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.” Albert Einstein

We currently lack the conviction, spirit and motivation, to review, reflect on and revise our attitudes and relationships to others. The self interest, corruption, deception and complacency of our leaders in western political democracies, along with the growing and disturbing trend towards right wing and violent religious fundamentalism, in both east  and west, has further increased the divide.

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”  Plato

"At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act"
H G Wells (written 1907 CE)