Analysis on Thoreau’s Ideologies Essay Example

in the streets of today, we have rampant crime, prostitution, trickery, and an overall lack of respect and responsibility to government.

The unwillingness to vote works directly against the "freedom" we have to govern, and as such, forces the hand of the government to do what it deems necessary.It's in the time of the Great Depression that one can best realize the flaws of democracy. Every where you turned there was propaganda, forand against the government. For and against democracy, and communism.

For no matter how hard any individual tried, they could not earn money, support themselves, find work, or afford food. Meanwhile, all the government could relay was to "Have confidence" and "Believe in the country, Believe in the Government." Many flocked to the idea of communism, but in that there lay the same fatal flaw that befalls democracy, the right to self govern. Only communism took this to an extreme, and as such, many took advantage of the idea, working less and for themselves, rather then more and for the country, as communism is based.

So too did it fall, and democracy was left again to retain government. Rather then a collective people voting, governing themselves out of poverty, it was a single individual, among council, that brought the country into war, and out of poverty. This fact, opposed to Thoreau's idealism, is what brings doubt to the truthfulness of the quote.Thoreau believed in the idea that each man had the right to self government, and the will and pride to use this responsibility for the betterment of himself and his country. Unfortunately, in an imperfect world, these idealisms are no longer able

to function properly, and as such a larger, more imposing power is required to maintain and keep order, while managing to keep the curtain that may be democracy over the eyes of the general public.