question authority...

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the
frightening,
terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are
going in
this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political,
the
religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort
us by
giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our
minds their
view of reality. To think for yourself you must question
authority and
learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable,
open-mindedness;
chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself.

So by saying we should question authority in order to have minds of our own, are you saying that if we don't agree with a rule or something, like stealing, or murder, that we should go and commit those acts?

I agree.

Question with tempered respect.

Break the rules. Anarchy.

This only defies logic.

Anarchy doesn't work...the system inside which such acts would be commited is too strong.

Education is the way to go, raise peoples awareness of the their class consciousness, help them to see how they are being controlled by the ruling class....and then you might see some changes.

"Our only hope lies in the proles"

1984.

And yet Newspeak grows daily.

If everybody questioned authority, then we might as well to go anarchy, but then there would be chaos and the one who is physically the strongest would rule. no tell what he/she would do. Rules are there for protection, not to make life miserable.

Everyone should question authority, but do it from the chair, not the protest march.

That's what is lacking right now.

I think you are wrong there Bret. Protesting is an important part of our democratic right, and as long as it's not done in a violent manner, it's a powerful indicator of the peoples feelings.

For example, i was present at the Anti war demo held last year in Glasdow, part of a worldwide peaceful protest against the war in Iraq...over 100,000 of my fellow human beings took to the streets in a united cause.

I very much doubt sitting at home would have had the same effect on me in terms of inspiration...Tony Blair paid little attention to our protest, and he's on his way out of power...George Bush paid little attention to the similar protests in America and now he's the most hated President in recent history...saved from losing the Election by the Fundamentalist Christian vote....and of course the appalling American media system...spearheaded by Fox news....

It may please you to sit at home gathering "data" from the TV..but when it comes to real public opinion...i prefer to actually be part of the public in question you know?

So was I (seriously). Protesting achieves nothing really. It just becomes a shambles and usually ends up a riot, which is ironic. Give peace a chance... after I put a bin though McDonald's window naturally.

I like that the London protest was not really anything more than excuse to go and break stuff.

And the next person to deface Churchill's statue is going to get laid the f*ck out. Not a promise, just a gaurantee.

Protest with your vote, that's what it is there for. Lobby parliament, sign a petition, make an appeal in your local newspaper, national paper, TV station... there are more options to walking the street with a poorly painted and mis-spelt slogan.