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If I don't do anything about this, I am the problem. Government is us. Our responsibility to design, implement, and hold accountable.

Talking about what happened isn't enough. Carlos Jaile lost his entire adult life because of systemic failures in the justice system. This needs to be fixed not only for Carlos but for everyone.

What needs to be changed and how?



The first thing that I think needs to be changed, is your mind: the government convincing us that it represents our will is one of the biggest cons in history.

The government is just an evolution of the strongest gang winning in an anarchy. That's what we live in, an anarchy where the strongest group has already taken power. They only consider our desires and needs as much as they have to to preserve their power. The truth is that collectively we are stronger than them, but if they can convince us that they are equivalent to our collective will they can pick on us in small groups or individually, because if we identify that they are not our collective will then we might enact our true will, and they can't stand to that.

So what to do about this? Acknowledge that the machine doesn't represent you, that it's not your fault, and take legitimacy from a system that abuses you by withdrawing your faith in it.




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