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RE: The Illusion of Legality
I would think that redefining victim as someone who has had their free will taken or infringed upon and removing all laws that create victimless crimes would be a good start. Changing the education system to teach things that make children more self aware instead of more supportive of and reliant on the government would help. Removing any old state and local laws promoting segregation or entitlement. Removing overgrown and out of touch bureaucracy. Stop charging "free people" for the "right" to leave the country. Lots of things could help change our reality.
Totally agree that these things would make sense. However, these items are overtly political, and I'm viewing politics as hopelessly broken at present, so I'm more interested in getting underneath political reality to the social reality from which it necessarily springs.
If we assume that people are inherently free, and acknowledge the possibility that people are freely choosing - time and again - to interact with each other and the larger world in such a way as to (re)produce our increasingly wrong political system, then perhaps (a) many people have no idea what they are doing, and/or (b) many people do have an idea of what they are doing, and our social reality is to their liking. So what manner of communications/interactions with each type of person might produce changes in their thinking that would translate through their actions into a future social reality that makes more sense?
It ultimately boils down to changing the way people think. Most of us are raised with a scarcity mindset which teaches our ego to keep a running negative dialogue in our head. I can't do such and such because I need to go to work. I need to go to the job because I have to pay the bill. I have to pay the bill because I need the thing. I need the thing because so and so will judge me if I don't have it. I need them to like me because I'm not self aware enough to like myself and I care what other people think. Ultimately, I believe it's required to lead by example. We have music, movies, art, and even writing/discussions like this that raise awareness and make people think. Change the minds and change the world.
The one (communication) that points to the truth most effectively for each type of person. If we want to teach by example we start with the words we use, and we won't stand for the misuse of words. If we are accurate and we ask or make the important points, much like you have done here by focusing on what mode might be conducive to change, it's a sharp, accurate thought, it addresses that which is very substantial to the conversation.
The method that most effectively conveys the truth (cuts to the bone) would be the then the best one at effecting or priming a change, so then it's a matter of sharpening our wits.