Flaw in the Logic

There's a hitch in the logic so far though. If every man and woman has a special set of desires, leanings, and goals allowing them to fulfill a unique purpose, then how do you find a goal or cause that they will fight for. What cause allows everyone involved in fighting for it to fulfill their own personal goals and passions. Some people choose things like freedom, and subsequently march off to war against their respective governments. A worthy cause indeed, but so far every government or leadership of any country or civilization throughout history has crumbled. In spite of their nations respective freedom fighters.

“But,” you say, “what about the American revolution, it succeeded, what about the French Revolution.” Which, though bloody and cruel did technically “succeed”. There is a particular quote that fits this perfectly, it was said by Napolean Bonaparte(the connection to the French Revolution is no coincidence). He said, “Among those who dislike oppression, are many who like to oppress.”

See, the French Revolution succeeded, the government at the time was overthrown, it was just replaced with something worse. Resistances are always glorious when they're fighting for their lives. Why do they change if they win? Why is it that every successful resistance has been succeeded by a slow fall back into corruption? It's like trying to keep a non-helium balloon in the air, it always sinks again, and keeps sinking until someone either reacts and knocks it back up or it hits the ground. And if you hadn't noticed, the reactions are getting slower and slower.

You see the problem is in the cause. When a resistance is in the middle of “resisting” oppression, it's fighting for freedom. It's fighting for a good cause. You know the phrase you are what you eat, well, you are what you fight for. If you fight for something pure, then in the process you will most likely grow into a better person in the process. When a resistance succeeds, it isn't fighting for freedom anymore, and each succeeding generation sinks farther and farther back into corruption. The problem with America, is we have lost our cause. The Capitalistic economy is good but it is motivated by greed, and greed isn't a good cause. America needs to rise up in defense of a pure cause, or eventually, the balloon is gonna hit the floor.

-Joshua Shillingworth