Power Problem

Interesting discussion topics in the Citizenship Project on Facebook. I haven't figured out how to make such a page yet. One of the main problems is that not everyone participates in government. Most of us would prefer to ignore government & barely notice that it is there. On the one hand ignoring it is much like ignoring a cancer it is likely to continue to grow until we do something about it to remedy the pain. On another hand, government if ignored, will start to control us like a second brain or hypnotized first brain & we begin to have to do things we never would do of our own choosing - like fighting wars & paying for stupid things to be done.  We could return the notion of government back to it's origins as envisioned by the founders or even the notion of steering a ship as in the etymology of the word:

Here are some of the problems & subdivisions of the topic: