Society would be perfect if it weren't for "people"

Hello my faithful and benevolent friends. I know some of you are cringing at this expecting that this will be the continuation of my last post. Well, lucky for y'all, it's not. That's next time. This one is more of my patented ranting. I will, however, leave you with one fact I've learned since my last post. It seems that in the Signals Intelligence Community (SigInt), there's an International surveillance program called Project ECHELON. It's generally administered by the NSA and gathers data from ALL correspondence, both foreign and domestic. Essentially, we've been being spied on without implicit knowledge for years. Just an interesting piece of info I found. On with the show.

Why do stars, celebrities, athletes, politicians and public persons in general need "people"? There's always statements made like "his people must have had him retract his (usually stupid) remark." Okay. Who are "people"? Where does one get "people"? Did the Founding Fathers have "people"? Did Lincoln have "people"? I don't recall the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement being responsible to any "people" during their struggles. "People." It's short for P.R. people. All these P.R. people and personal injury lawyers and "handlers" and Press Secretaries and publicists and spokespersons. Good god. When did all these people become the lubricant for the engine of popular culture? Why are most of them necessary at all?

Here's what I see as the reason for this exponential propagation of "people": a complete free fall of responsibility in American culture. I'm not referring to the "responsibility" batted around and spewed out by (mostly conservative) politicians, plutocracy and the narrow-minded. That's a type of "responsibility" that's suggested solution is to "not be the problem," hence you should be able to handle anything with privatization or just die. It really doesn't matter what somebody does as long as they're NOT OUR PROBLEM. That kinda responsibility is just a cop-out and device to maintain an ideological position that is untenable in human terms. It's a viral perspective so don't be infected.

The responsibility I'm talking about is something far more vital. It's taking responsibility for one's life and the consequences it incurs on others and the world. It's also, more specific to this post, taking responsibility FOR WHAT YOU SAY AND/OR DO. The "people" are hired as a way to circumvent this responsibility. They are sentries who wait for statements or events and then rush in to spin them, revise them or deny them. They would probably erase the public's memory with the blinky thingy in Men in Black if they could. But they can't. (Can they?)

Basically, if you say it, stand by it. Or don't say it. Wow, isn't that complicated? What a unique concept. Don't hire fake people to bury a statement which makes you fake by association. Just think before you speak publicly. (Memo to Imus.) Just think. Then you won't need people to rescue you. Life is really NOT rocket science. Tread mindfully and all things are your ally.