Writing has become difficult.
I’ve been wanting to blog lately, but just haven’t been able. I’ve been wondering why, there are plenty of things going wrong in this great nation of ours, and abroad, that piss me off. Too many things in fact. Never in my life have I seen america filled with so much oppression of mind. We are allowed to say what we want (mostly), but every day it seems there is some new legislation regulating the world. Porn being over-regulated on the net, Kansas arguing against evolution, and ‘winning’, artists arrested for terrorism, property legally stolen for private enterprise. And it doesn’t stop there, the list goes on.
Too many things weighing on my mind, and I’m realizing I feel oppressed. I’m a fairly law abiding citizen, yet I live in more fear of my own government than I do of terrorists. If I were the worrying type I’d be worried that one day I’d wake up in jail for thinking the wrong thought.
Our freedoms are consistently being eroded, but what can I really do?
Protest? Done that, to no real avail.
Boycott stores that I don’t agree with their policies? wal*mart doesn’t seem to care.
Vote for someone better? Done that, and realizing that voting doesn't work.
Recycle? Do it, bums get some change from that, better than nothing.
Fight back? Love to, but against who?
The christians up the street?
My republican neighbors?
The army, navy, air force & marines?
The police?
My boss?
The ceo of my company?
The ceo of any company?
Get real, fighting any of these groups seems fairly pointless, it’ll change nothing, or, make me them, only from beyond the looking glass.
Ministry sums it up best, we're in ‘the land of rape & honey’
So fuck ‘em
-De
2 comments:
Amen.
Yeah, there are worse places than the USA, but part of the human condition seems to be an inability to look at their situation from a position worse than their own. there are probably many countries where many people would love to have the luxuary of worrying about the philisophical crumbling of their goverment. hell, my home town has long been a relocation center for people from wartorn nations (provided the US isn't the country doing the war), and i'm sure these relocaed people have a much different view of how much freedom they have.
however, on the flip side, if the people of the free countries don't maintain constant vigilance against their own internal tyranies, then nowhere on earth has a chance. for it would show that once humans are given the chance at freedom then they do not cherish it enough to keep it safe.
or something like that :)
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