After a few years of reading blog posts and making my own comments on the number one issue our society is facing, our political situation, I was forced to the unpalatable conclusion that I was wasting my time. I was unable to convince these whingy whiney socialists and liberals that the facts they were so conveniently ignoring or twisting actually were powerful statements on the way things were. To be honest I’m not that good a debater. I like to point out facts, finish with a conclusion which utilises the facts and then discuss any facts that don’t fit that conclusion. Sometimes I’ve even found I’ve changed my own stance on something when a fact is presented to me I didn’t know. My stance on gun control was changed that way several years back.
So off I went reading books on debating, winning arguments and practising with like minded people until I had my debating skills sharpened so much that any minute is expected my tongue to be subject to a license from HMG. Yet back in the world of politics it appears that nothing has changed. It is more of a religion than anything else. Hardened political supporters care nothing for facts and even when presented with a smoking gun they say ‘Well, Yes. But our party is the party for the people and the others are much worse.’ People were still ignoring the facts because of their beliefs and, anyway, their father has always voted that way. He would turn in his grave if I voted for them. The other side.
Driven away to my remote retreat, a Shaolin temple in the ass end of nowhere and miles from civilisation just outside Kilmarnock, I proceeded to spend several months meditating and searching for the way forward on political discussion, How to use my brain and intellect to enable others to see the truth and justice. Months passed and nothing made sense. The news coming in is that the whole world is going mad. The EU politicians tighten their grip, the USSR seems to be getting back on its feet and reversing the gains made since the 80s and the US seems to be following in the EUs footsteps. Thank God for people wanting power and rivalries with each pig wanting its place in the trough.
Anyway suddenly it hit me. We as a species are too stupid to be allowed to vote. We are driven by envy and greed. We vote for those that will take from those better off than us and give it to us. We do not realise that in most of these cases we are the better off just because we are working. We think it is someone richer who it will impact the most and we are too thick to realise that the politicians have been playing us again. To put things in perspective we live in the top 10% of people on this planet. The bulk of the people on this planet are a lot worse off than anyone in the West. Nobody starves here daily. No one is without recourse to the law for protection. etc. Yet when we talk about helping those worse off we always think of ourselves as we look at the top 10% of our bit with envy. We want to be there or bring them down via the law. We love it when the high and mighty fall. Of course when we get into that 10%, now 1% of the planet, we look at the top 10% there with envy. Little caring for those other 99%. So when we starting talking about making society fairer we see it as the 10% we look at with envy being forced to give us something to make us better off. Let’s help the poor the politicians cry and the top 10% of the West see themselves as poor. Screw the rest of the world. No wonder we are so hated.
More importantly, we make no plans for the future. It is inevitable that at some stage the earth will be hit by an asteroid or something. It is inevitable we will run out of resources, water, food and living space yet we do nothing and don’t even consider options available to us at the moment to prepare.
So what I’m going to do here is put a few things in perspective. Point out injustice and try and define a way forward. Maybe not for us because we are clearly too thick but maybe someday. Of course if I can ever find a safe way, for me anyway, to become dictator of this backward planet then I’ll do so and force my views on others. It’s only fair, it’s been happening to me for years. Of course I’ll reintroduce democracy in a few years anyway, when the people are bright enough. I may even let women vote if I can forgive them for voting Blair in.