forget elections, we are voting all the time.
This is what I don’t understand. We all complain about the rising price of everything, and there’s this doom-and-drek message of scarcity being thrown at us left, right and center, and yet we’re still forking out money hand over fist and complaining that we never have enough.
If you have a roof over your head, food to fill your stomach and people with whom to share love, you have enough. Those are our absolute bottom lines when it comes to survival as a species. Everything else is gravy, and it’s getting a damn sight out of hand. Hate commercials? Stop watching television. Hate over-priced crap you for some reason believe you need? Stop buying it. Hate the way someone you know treats the people and the world around them? Fucking call them on it.
We are voting all the time, every second of every day. Every time you complain to yourself about a factor of something you’re actively engaging in, you’re voting to perpetuate it. This is the cause of much of the disparity in the world; we’re led to believe that on our own we can’t make a difference. A house divided cannot stand, and as long as we keep chasing the same carrots and buying into the same bullshit hype and arguing the same issues that are on offer to argue nothing is going to change. When are we going to look at the present with the same critical eye we apply to the past? Once upon a time monarchies were the top tier of choice, and where are we now? How are we still even arguing about the basics of segregation across the world when clearly, CLEARLY every last one of us should be judged on the basis of our actions and nothing more?
On some level we know this, but it’s the old fall back of well, I’m only one person. Yes, you’re only one person. I’m sure we’ve all been asked what you’d do if the world was going to end in twenty four hours, and I’m sure we’ve all at some point answered on the limited interpersonal scales we’ve been conditioned to think comprise the world. I say fuck it: I’d try and stop it. Sure, I probably wouldn’t have a chance in hell, but if every one of us could honestly say the same, and mean it, at the very least we’d put up a hell of a goddamned fight.
