Often the argument for medical euthanasia is to let the dying die with dignity. Well, why the hell don't we demand to live with dignity?
We are living under a government that is nothing more than a few rich, mostly white men who use the influence of their global corporations to write laws to benefit them and not us.
What is freedom if not the right to choose how to live, without affecting the freedom of others?
What are these laws that humiliate us? Who voted for them? We have people in government declaring themselves important and capable that are no more than criminals who lie, steal and further corrupt.
And what do we do when the money we pay goes to corrupt institutions?
Essentially, we have no choice. We pay money for war and internal corruption and greater police presence and NOT for education and NOT for helping the poor and NOT for helping the sick because it is a crime not to. We are arrested, beaten and oppressed for gathering in protest. We are now legally strip searched for any reason. We are tracked on our phones without warrant or reason.
So, we live day-to-day, trying to carve out a 'respectable' existence for ourselves and our families, with no time to care about the community, to help one another, to resist our oppressors. We're locked into student loan debt (which is the only way most of us can get educations), mortgage debt (much of it illegal, most of it unfair), paying taxes we disagree with, paying bailouts that do nothing but continue to bolster fraudulent activities and pay bonuses to those responsible for our loss of our houses.
Where is dignity? What is dignity? How can we live with dignity?
Insurgo, insurgi, insurrectum.
02 April 2012
01 April 2012
Humor is truth, truth is humor
I don't know what thoughts I'd have to share with the world right now - I feel paralyzed, just paralyzed. What can I do? I feel small and weak. I feel like I'm fighting a tide, inside and out. Sometimes I wonder if the situation will improve much - either from without or within. I desperately hope so, but I don't know how to be a catalyst and I don't have the faintest idea why not.
The government is a plague of petty men, who upon declaring themselves 'important', set to control more and more. They cannot be separate from the laws if they benefit from those laws. And if they are not separate from those laws, they should not be trusted to make them. But what's the solution? Stupid little ruler wannabes. You think if you abstract the issue enough, the people will not realize that the burden is still on their shoulders?
We are not helpless.
The government is a plague of petty men, who upon declaring themselves 'important', set to control more and more. They cannot be separate from the laws if they benefit from those laws. And if they are not separate from those laws, they should not be trusted to make them. But what's the solution? Stupid little ruler wannabes. You think if you abstract the issue enough, the people will not realize that the burden is still on their shoulders?
We are not helpless.
29 March 2012
Other people's shit.
It's not a matter of not growing up.
It's not a matter of not being responsible.
It's a matter of waking up one morning and realizing that you've got to deal with other people's shit, as well as your own that's the problem. Because other people are assholes, you have to spend your life fighting and stressing.
It's not a matter of not being responsible.
It's a matter of waking up one morning and realizing that you've got to deal with other people's shit, as well as your own that's the problem. Because other people are assholes, you have to spend your life fighting and stressing.
05 March 2012
Insurgo.
Insurgo, insurgi, insurrectum.
You did everything right. You worked hard, abstained from most "bad" things, paid your taxes, got a degree - maybe even 2 or 3! - and yet it feels like you're being punished.
Those who taught us are afraid to admit that they don't know either; it would make their lives worthless if the people who told you to live this way were not lying to themselves.
This life is already meaningless enough. Why else do we have to constantly train ourselves with media and movies and ads so that we understand the importance of correct behavior - like being in the right social circle, agreeing with the crowd (and sticking up for your bros (!), not necessarily your values. BROS!!!), deference to wastes of human tradition (because God totally wants us to live like spoiled little shits) and the longing (L-O-N-G-I-N-G) to be a princess and finally realize how special and undervalued you really are!
Insurgo, insurgi, insurrectum.
But you're doing everything right. You exercise, you date, you buy things to support the economy, you eat organic food, you vote. The goodness of mankind will ensure that the most likable, best candidate for the job will win and make the rules for 4 years! He'll (or she! Of course someday it'll happen! Mankind is essentially good and fair, right?!!) make sure to defend the average person's interests and, if we don't like what he or the other elected officials are doing, we can completely change it, uniting as people and picking an even better guy (or gal!)!
0 for 2 - none of those people give a shit what any average person anywhere thinks. They understand that a few very rich individuals control most of the choices This Great Nation makes, including wars, the education system, the organic food lie, the growing income gap...and the only reason that he or she even got to be a candidate is because they've made some very steep promises - not to you or I - but to these very wealthy people. It's like a horribly disgusting scene from a movie where the good-looking protagonist is forced to do the evil bidding of some overweight, ugly, pimply, fat slob who only wants to be more powerful. A la Baron Harkonnen (A.K.A. the floating fat man).
Insurgo, insurgi, insurrectum.
You'll continue to do everything right, because you don't know what else to do.
Insurgo, insurgi, insurrectum.
You'll work for a good company, you'll have children, you'll visit the commercial theme parks for fun, you'll temper your drinking, you'll set a good example, you'll blame something else when more of the ground water becomes contaminated, you'll throw dinner parties and cook something fancy, you'll blame the OTHER guy for sending us to war again, you'll pay back your student loans, you'll blame the populace for being too lazy, you'll watch "your" shows - even if you don't like them - so you can gchat your office pals about it and have a good laugh, you'll complain all the way to the grave because of how bad things are - how bad people are letting things get, not like when you were young and everything was great because people cared, like you.
INSURGO - INSURGI - INSURRECTUM.
RISE UP - REBEL - REVOLT.
You did everything right. You worked hard, abstained from most "bad" things, paid your taxes, got a degree - maybe even 2 or 3! - and yet it feels like you're being punished.
Those who taught us are afraid to admit that they don't know either; it would make their lives worthless if the people who told you to live this way were not lying to themselves.
This life is already meaningless enough. Why else do we have to constantly train ourselves with media and movies and ads so that we understand the importance of correct behavior - like being in the right social circle, agreeing with the crowd (and sticking up for your bros (!), not necessarily your values. BROS!!!), deference to wastes of human tradition (because God totally wants us to live like spoiled little shits) and the longing (L-O-N-G-I-N-G) to be a princess and finally realize how special and undervalued you really are!
Insurgo, insurgi, insurrectum.
But you're doing everything right. You exercise, you date, you buy things to support the economy, you eat organic food, you vote. The goodness of mankind will ensure that the most likable, best candidate for the job will win and make the rules for 4 years! He'll (or she! Of course someday it'll happen! Mankind is essentially good and fair, right?!!) make sure to defend the average person's interests and, if we don't like what he or the other elected officials are doing, we can completely change it, uniting as people and picking an even better guy (or gal!)!
0 for 2 - none of those people give a shit what any average person anywhere thinks. They understand that a few very rich individuals control most of the choices This Great Nation makes, including wars, the education system, the organic food lie, the growing income gap...and the only reason that he or she even got to be a candidate is because they've made some very steep promises - not to you or I - but to these very wealthy people. It's like a horribly disgusting scene from a movie where the good-looking protagonist is forced to do the evil bidding of some overweight, ugly, pimply, fat slob who only wants to be more powerful. A la Baron Harkonnen (A.K.A. the floating fat man).
Insurgo, insurgi, insurrectum.
You'll continue to do everything right, because you don't know what else to do.
Insurgo, insurgi, insurrectum.
You'll work for a good company, you'll have children, you'll visit the commercial theme parks for fun, you'll temper your drinking, you'll set a good example, you'll blame something else when more of the ground water becomes contaminated, you'll throw dinner parties and cook something fancy, you'll blame the OTHER guy for sending us to war again, you'll pay back your student loans, you'll blame the populace for being too lazy, you'll watch "your" shows - even if you don't like them - so you can gchat your office pals about it and have a good laugh, you'll complain all the way to the grave because of how bad things are - how bad people are letting things get, not like when you were young and everything was great because people cared, like you.
INSURGO - INSURGI - INSURRECTUM.
RISE UP - REBEL - REVOLT.
16 January 2012
i never signed a social contract
Are we saying that things need to change before we decide to join your society?
Where's the incentive for staying within a group of people who we consider assholes?
Where's the incentive for staying within a group of people who we consider assholes?
09 January 2012
Changing to do, ramblingly
I don't know what to do. I've...never really had this problem in this way before.
Things that I thought I wanted no longer seem as important. I feel like I'm in kind of a free fall where time has stopped but I have not. I feel like I am watching everything around me happening in slow motion. I feel a strange sense of detachment, but not *quite* apathy.
What is this mood? What is this lack of zeal to DO?
I'm not worried about failing; I'm not worried about putting effort forward with no result.
I'm worried that I don't know where to put my efforts, I guess. But I don't want to sit on my brains and indecisions, either.
Maybe I haven't come to terms with myself. Like...I thought I knew what I wanted and what was best/logical/desirable/natural, but it doesn't seem so best/logical/desirable/natural now.
You know the drill: Get a good education, get a job you can have fun doing, find a mate, mate it up, make some family members, think about stuff, be a good person in your community, chillax and enjoy the beauty of life.
But. BUT. But. There are many problems with this.
First, I've always felt skeptical of this formula for basic reasons, even before this recent mental weirdness - there's an inherent lack of community (family units do not count as community), it's kind of boring-sounding and there's not a lot of room in this societal structure to do something else and seem 'successful.'
Maybe more importantly to this recent mental weirdness, however, are the large facts that I've recently (allowed myself to) become aware of. Our way of life is selfish to other humans, to other life and to the earth itself. This pattern of existence is too complacent and allows for mad amounts of corruption by those who are even MORE bored by it. It's not satisfying or progressive to a lot of people. We treat ourselves and everything around us like ignorant shit. Truth.
I feel like I've been looking for a long time for a mentor, or a leader, or someone who could help me in this journey. Someone with all of the answers. I've looked to parents, teachers, peers, mates, friends, religions, institutions, educations, philosophies, whatever.
And maybe this approach was fundamentally flawed, although I'd like to say that I've been learning the whole time. I guess I'm starting to wake up a little more and realize my own mind. Or understanding that the answers that I look for lie more in my own experiences than in others'.
And what of these experiences? How does a person know which experiences to seek? Which opportunities to embrace and which to reject?
What to do?? What not to do???
Things that I thought I wanted no longer seem as important. I feel like I'm in kind of a free fall where time has stopped but I have not. I feel like I am watching everything around me happening in slow motion. I feel a strange sense of detachment, but not *quite* apathy.
What is this mood? What is this lack of zeal to DO?
I'm not worried about failing; I'm not worried about putting effort forward with no result.
I'm worried that I don't know where to put my efforts, I guess. But I don't want to sit on my brains and indecisions, either.
Maybe I haven't come to terms with myself. Like...I thought I knew what I wanted and what was best/logical/desirable/natural, but it doesn't seem so best/logical/desirable/natural now.
You know the drill: Get a good education, get a job you can have fun doing, find a mate, mate it up, make some family members, think about stuff, be a good person in your community, chillax and enjoy the beauty of life.
But. BUT. But. There are many problems with this.
First, I've always felt skeptical of this formula for basic reasons, even before this recent mental weirdness - there's an inherent lack of community (family units do not count as community), it's kind of boring-sounding and there's not a lot of room in this societal structure to do something else and seem 'successful.'
Maybe more importantly to this recent mental weirdness, however, are the large facts that I've recently (allowed myself to) become aware of. Our way of life is selfish to other humans, to other life and to the earth itself. This pattern of existence is too complacent and allows for mad amounts of corruption by those who are even MORE bored by it. It's not satisfying or progressive to a lot of people. We treat ourselves and everything around us like ignorant shit. Truth.
I feel like I've been looking for a long time for a mentor, or a leader, or someone who could help me in this journey. Someone with all of the answers. I've looked to parents, teachers, peers, mates, friends, religions, institutions, educations, philosophies, whatever.
And maybe this approach was fundamentally flawed, although I'd like to say that I've been learning the whole time. I guess I'm starting to wake up a little more and realize my own mind. Or understanding that the answers that I look for lie more in my own experiences than in others'.
And what of these experiences? How does a person know which experiences to seek? Which opportunities to embrace and which to reject?
What to do?? What not to do???
03 January 2012
Missing the point
I think I am sometimes. I wonder..
Time passes and I'm not sure I'm getting it. I'm not sure where to look. It's both incredibly inspiring and incredibly depressing to think of how much no one really knows about what's happening. I guess it makes sense - if we had a significant amount of mentorship in these times, we wouldn't be in these times.
Like a lot of people I encounter, it's difficult and frustrating to know exactly what to do, day-to-day. To be blunt, if one wants to have no further impact on the world, one needs only to end their life. And that's not an option for (I hope) most of us!
So, how do we strike this balance?
On one side: we need to aggressively change our individual and collective actions to save the world and to preserve human rights. We are running out of resources, we are massively polluting the world, we are increasing global temperatures with disastrous impacts, we're killing people in the Middle East for oil, we're letting people die in Africa for lack of oil and we're trying our damnedest to hide in a world of make-believe while all this happens.
On the other side: we need to remember what it means to be human. We need to make sure we're having fun (or what's the point?), we need to remember that we're all capable of poor judgement and we need to forgive each other and ourselves for the irresponsible things we've done. Compassion and understanding are not best when rushed.
How do we balance these things? How do we love and yet condemn? How do we make changes that will require sacrifices from all of us? How do we consider these human transgressions daily without hate, malice or depression?
What can we do? What more can I do than protest and tell everyone I know to be more aware? Am I lazy? Do I remain unsure and convince myself that I cannot do more because of fear?
Possibly..
Time passes and I'm not sure I'm getting it. I'm not sure where to look. It's both incredibly inspiring and incredibly depressing to think of how much no one really knows about what's happening. I guess it makes sense - if we had a significant amount of mentorship in these times, we wouldn't be in these times.
Like a lot of people I encounter, it's difficult and frustrating to know exactly what to do, day-to-day. To be blunt, if one wants to have no further impact on the world, one needs only to end their life. And that's not an option for (I hope) most of us!
So, how do we strike this balance?
On one side: we need to aggressively change our individual and collective actions to save the world and to preserve human rights. We are running out of resources, we are massively polluting the world, we are increasing global temperatures with disastrous impacts, we're killing people in the Middle East for oil, we're letting people die in Africa for lack of oil and we're trying our damnedest to hide in a world of make-believe while all this happens.
On the other side: we need to remember what it means to be human. We need to make sure we're having fun (or what's the point?), we need to remember that we're all capable of poor judgement and we need to forgive each other and ourselves for the irresponsible things we've done. Compassion and understanding are not best when rushed.
How do we balance these things? How do we love and yet condemn? How do we make changes that will require sacrifices from all of us? How do we consider these human transgressions daily without hate, malice or depression?
What can we do? What more can I do than protest and tell everyone I know to be more aware? Am I lazy? Do I remain unsure and convince myself that I cannot do more because of fear?
Possibly..
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