We as Humans

Civil Duty.

"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"

We Americans tend to hold a mentality of the government and large corporations being the enemy. Like if a report were to come out and say that violent movies led to huge spikes of violence, we'd call for them to be ban. Yet when they were ban, we'd yell about our rights being taken. We treat things like a dangerous toy to a child. We'll keep playing with it until someone takes it away, and then we'll throw a tantrum. Yet when it hurts us, we'd expect that someone to heal our wounds. We wish to rebel against our government. Like a dog pulling at the leash, we know we'll still be fed, so this makes us feel in power.

Companies notice this too. We want to be special. We don't want to buy from the big scary corporate place. They're evil. So they market to our rebellion with diversity and bright colors and commercials of people on the move. The thing is, this values may benefit, but they are there to make money. Rebellion is fashionable. Anyone who wants power knows it.

We elect people into power who rebel against typical political ideas. We want someone new. A new kind of politician. A fighter of the people who won't bend to big government and companies.

We think of the government fittingly like a rebellious teenager thinks of their parents. Support. An annoyance. Wrong. Evil. Yet some part knows we need it as something to fall back to.

We the people don't remember we are the government. That we are in any way a part of it. It's all just a separate entity to us. You don't think of your police or firefighters or mailman as a part.

Do we even believe in a civil duty anymore?

For the record there are so many things the government does that I disagree with, but this chapter is based on a chapter in the book The Pale King by David Foster Wallace and I thought it was interesting.