I refuse to watch wrestling on TV. I KNOW it's rigged. I watch all those people screaming and cheering and all I can think is "why?" It's not even
a real contest, they're just acting. They wrote the dialogue and moves for this episode long ago and have been practicing them. So ... how can anyone
possibly think that all that jumping up and down and screaming a name will make any difference? And if they KNOW it doesn't make any difference, how
can they embarrass and humiliate themselves by behaving like that?
Now take the above paragraph, replace the word "wrestling" with the word "politics" and 98% of it still stands and works almost as well.
I don't watch "Survivor," and I can only shake my head at the people who seem to think the outcome is going to change their world. Or the people
who think the outcome of yesterday's election is going to change their world.
If we didn't have elections, and you really didn't like the way things were going, what would you do? Civil disobedience? Protests? Write
editorials? Outright revolt? Surely more of us would do
something.
But the PTB says that all of that is wrong. To effect change you VOTE. Change from within by working
with the system. What they aren't telling
you is that politics and voting aren't going to change a thing. But as long as they can make most of us believe that they do (or can), they can USE
them as a way to keep us from doing those other things that they don't want us to do because THOSE things (protesting, revolts, etc.) might actually
change things, and change is the last thing THEY want.
Uncle Sam saying "stop complaining and go vote like a good citizen." equates pretty much in my mind to the Wizard of Oz saying "Pay no attention to
the man behind the curtain."
Voting is the pacifier that keeps us from screaming our heads off because we're hungry. Politics is the funny play that distracts us from being
concerned about people who are suffering and dying. This illusion of participation, of "our voice being heard" is what THEY are using to channel our
frustration, disappointment, anger, and pain so that we won't collectively revolt and DEMAND real change.
"We live in a democracy so we have no one to blame but ourselves for the way things are." Heard that before? That's the guilt trip they're laying
on us, and they play it as well as dear old Mom ever did. They aren't doing anything to us, we're doing it to ourselves. Never mind that the US
isn't a democracy and never has been, and "government by the people and for the people" died before you were born.
We aren't sheep or sheeple and we don't have a shepherd. Shepherds take care of their sheep and want what's best for them (as long as they're
giving wool, anyway). We are chickens, and our caretakers are foxes and bobcats who have learned to take the long view of things and are content to
steal all the eggs and snag a few of us here and there instead of killing us all at once. Someday the general public will finally
have to see
the coop walls and the fences for what they are - our prison, not our protection - but by then it will be much too late to change our fate.
Go ahead and vote and be proud of yourself for doing your "civic duty." But don't come complaining to me when you're running around with your head
cut off.
Hey Shock .. thanks for the chance to vent. I agree with you totally and I think I understand where you're coming from. Anytime you want any help
arguing with those political types, give me a shout (or a u2u) and I'll be there!
