Demoscratos
Democracy: Greek for "ineffectual."
I'm watching our federal government roll out their "green" plan. It's kind of amusing in a way, because everyone and their dog knows that nothing will actually be done. Sure, emissions will be cut by some arbitrary percentage by a date in the future, but how does reducing the emissions save the environment, when what we've already put out is already creating a cascade of reactions all over the planet?
Much too little. Way too late. Not to mention the fact that everything we want to do has to go through the cogwork wheels of the meatgrinder in parliament. I like what democracy represents, even if it's a clipped bird in a flying contest. I don't like politics and powergames though.
I almost can't wait to read the article that the Party members inevitably put out. It's their little trumpet they have to blow everytime their government does anything, since we as the media are bored to tears by just about anything they have to say. Hell, even when either Party fucks up, their members are touting the fact that it was made public. They like to throw words like "accountability," out a lot.
Meanwhile, in the States, I'm watching as "accountability" is one of the words being thrown wholesale from the White House windows. My thoughts go to the soldiers who are now having to put boots to soil in Baghdad. I'm hoping the nasty business on both sides of the ocean can be wrapped up soon, for your sake and for the sake of the people of the world.
But I know, like the mission to save the environment, the mission in Iraq is never truly over.
Are either worth winning? Truly?
The world will likely outlast us, as human beings, and our regression to pre-millennial mindsets regarding the future of our race have likely doomed us to annihalation, if not by the hot death of a nuclear bomb, than by the flabby apathy and ineffective actions we claim.
I chose not to enter politics for two simple reasons.
1) There's no room for honest men and women in the company of crooks and powermongers.
2) My efforts to help would always be stymied, if not by my own party, than by the efforts of the opposition.
I'm watching our federal government roll out their "green" plan. It's kind of amusing in a way, because everyone and their dog knows that nothing will actually be done. Sure, emissions will be cut by some arbitrary percentage by a date in the future, but how does reducing the emissions save the environment, when what we've already put out is already creating a cascade of reactions all over the planet?
Much too little. Way too late. Not to mention the fact that everything we want to do has to go through the cogwork wheels of the meatgrinder in parliament. I like what democracy represents, even if it's a clipped bird in a flying contest. I don't like politics and powergames though.
I almost can't wait to read the article that the Party members inevitably put out. It's their little trumpet they have to blow everytime their government does anything, since we as the media are bored to tears by just about anything they have to say. Hell, even when either Party fucks up, their members are touting the fact that it was made public. They like to throw words like "accountability," out a lot.
Meanwhile, in the States, I'm watching as "accountability" is one of the words being thrown wholesale from the White House windows. My thoughts go to the soldiers who are now having to put boots to soil in Baghdad. I'm hoping the nasty business on both sides of the ocean can be wrapped up soon, for your sake and for the sake of the people of the world.
But I know, like the mission to save the environment, the mission in Iraq is never truly over.
Are either worth winning? Truly?
The world will likely outlast us, as human beings, and our regression to pre-millennial mindsets regarding the future of our race have likely doomed us to annihalation, if not by the hot death of a nuclear bomb, than by the flabby apathy and ineffective actions we claim.
I chose not to enter politics for two simple reasons.
1) There's no room for honest men and women in the company of crooks and powermongers.
2) My efforts to help would always be stymied, if not by my own party, than by the efforts of the opposition.
posted by Geoff at 3:35 PM
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Demoscratos! An execellent word for our times!
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