Article by Pablo Ouziel - Waking Up Is Hard to Do

The article can be found here.

I like this part the most:

...In the Western world - the bastion of democracy - we console ourselves with the thought that we are free, we refer to ourselves as members of the free world and compare our free societies with tyrannies that govern in other parts of the planet.

This we justify by the fact that our elected officials have reached the podium through an electoral system of some kind, thus in effect being representatives of our interests as citizens.

It can be argued that this is a fair assumption, as long as we conduct our field research in a laboratory, but if we engage with members of the numerous sub-communities, which exist within the boundaries of delineated Nation States, we quickly realize that there is tremendous discontent and frustration brewing amongst the population.

At the same time, there exists in our societies a sense of impotence and fear that if the boat is rocked, things will get worse....

Read the rest and tell me what you think. I'm down with Mr. Ouziel's argument.