Okay, a little political breather...

[tylik]

We've all been hearing too much about important, but let's face it, often pretty minor ways in which things might or might not change in how our society is set up. Even at my most idealistic, I find it hard to see this as much better than a series of choices between appalling and... really mediocre.

So let's take a break and blue sky it. Screw these practical little baby steps, let's talk about the society we'd really like to be living in...

I, for example, would like to see access to information as a basic inalienable civil right.

I would like "family" to be a whole series of possible rights and obligations that can be agreed on (by both parties) to exist between any person... and any other person. Regardless of biological relationship (in most cases, it's practical, I'll grant, to usually assume a parent has obligations toward their child during their minority, though I think there should be a lot of flexibility in what makes a parent). Regardless of religious association.

I would like the whole idea of corporations being legal individuals to be abolished. Feh.

You?