by Dylan Shroll

Created on: October 13, 2009

As Karl Marx once said, The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it. Throughout history the connotation and practice of philosophical thought and reflection has changed, in some ways for the better, in some ways for the worse. It has changed in the method of the Social Contract, in the interpretation of the constitution, the international world, and the equality afforded within the constitution

Returning to my first point, the social contract has degraded from the age of constitutional rights and imperialism to the regime of the Patriot Act and of ineffective UN arbitration. The use of a peoples liberties by their government as a method of enslavement is now a viable appendix to the social contracts our forefathers formulated. The use of a biased third party controlled by the new-age bourquise has become the main forum for negotiation and the use of another nation for it's resources has become a Crime against Humanity

The Constitution of the United States was a beacon for the use of a government for and be the people, not the other way around. As the character V from Allen Moore's V for Vendetta so eloquently put it:

The vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition..

The colonists knew this emotion, they knew the oppression of a government with the power to violate their freedoms and their liberties. They rebelled and formed a nation that was known for it's fervent protection of life, liberty and all of the freedoms which we now take for granted. We claim that we are endowed with these rights, we call them human rights but we violate them without regard for our own hypocrisy.

Imperialism: The train of thought that inspired nations to lay claim to other areas. For Great Briton, these were India, Egypt, South Africa, and the Colonies. Then, in the century following the United States seized the lands that was their 'Manifest Destiny', the lands of the native americans, the lands belonging to Mexico. The world was their Oyster, and it took a hammer made of guns, atom bombs, and hard power to crack it open. But in reality it wasn't what we did that was so misguided, it was what we took when we did it. The late Mr. Robert Mugabe, a man who fought for Zimbabwean sovereignty from the British

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