Great show in its 23123th season just keeps getting better. The new episode ran with the connection between God always watching us and how the NSA is always watching us. So Butters prays to the government to keep him safe..causes its watching us to keep us safe right? Same reason people pray to God..cause they expect God to step in when something bad happens. There is a joke there..but one wonders how different our expectations are of Government and of God. They seem to have similar roles as both are mostly called on to pull our butt out of a fire in an emergency and be ethereal whenever else. In order to calm hysteria about spying and privacy Butters turns the DMV into a confessional. Interesting thing confessionals. Wouldn't it be great if you could go to the government and PRIVATELY talk to someone about all your problems with the promise that they would stay secret and that you would be absolved of accountability (if you followed through with atonement assignment)? How many problems would this fix in our society? . Supposedly the government already knows about all you personal problems since they spy on you..there are just so many scofflaws and "criminals" out there they havnt gotten to you yet.Bad people no longer fear eternal damnation, they fear loosing their freedom. So why not go and talk with the jailer and since you were honest about it they wont follow up with the swat team or 70 consecutive life time sentences. We sort have stuck with our puritan roots regarding incarceration and punishment rather than reform and atonement and it clearly hasnt worked for us. I know..it only will be as good and benign as the people running it. But a serious idea to chew on from South Park.
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