David vs. Goliath

             From the book the book Profit Over People by Noam Chomsky of chapter two “Consent without Consent” tells readers about the philosophy about the strong (rich) vs. the weak (poor). David Hume, an analysis, found it intriguing how the government always has force on its side when and if people raised up and overthrew the “masters”. “In a democracy, the governed have the right to consent, but nothing more than that” (Chomsky 44).Our governmental system is all about the consent of the “governed.” America’s idea of a governmental system has and is accepted but continues to be challenged. The issue of the amount of power the government hast to control its people is too strong. But even with most brutal rulers have a limit which leaves the system weak.  The Balance Of Power (BOP) is what’s important to any ruler, giving the majority of the power to the government and the least amount to its civilians.

                The phrase that stuck out the most was “The people must submit to their rulers, and it is enough if they give consent without consent” (pg. 45). This sentence fully explains the real meaning of “consent without consent.” This theology even affects the availability and knowledge of people’s human rights. From a documental video of a Global Politics class, the reporter asked a variety of Americans do they know their human rights. About 3% were able to somewhat successfully explain their human rights. The idea of living in the states lets civilians know they are entitled to their rights, but what are they? Living in the U.S is an automatic consent to having human rights but also consenting to the lack of knowledge of what they are. Every day not just in the U.S people of different nations are having their human rights violated based on the power the government has over them. As Hume’s discovered “the more free and popular a government, the more it becomes necessary to rely on control of opinion to ensure submission to the rulers.”

                For an example, we the people have the right to public assembly and workers’ rights. When workers know they need and disserve to have better conditions they cannot assemble due to the ban on such act in certain states. But that act is violating our human rights. Our human rights also say we have the right ot a fair and free world. I don’t know about anyone else but this doesn’t seem fair to me.

                Unknowingly people are consenting to live a life as “slaves” when giving the government the right to withholding the accurate knowledge of the human rights. By not exactly stating the human rights and the public does not make the effort of learning their human rights without the help of the government make them weak. Which automatically gives the government the upper hand to violate them without you knowing.