Saturday 22 March 2014

Our dreams – and lives – cannot fit into ballot boxes!

The ballot box is the mechanism used to force us to surrender our power - to hand over our inherent, inalienable decision-making rights to the politicians and the powerful individuals who in turn dictate their actions. Then when these individuals inevitably make bad, stupid, self-serving decisions 'on our behalf' people whine about how if only we would elect the right folks' all would be well.

Sorry, but it doesn't work that way. It can't work that way.

A little wild card known as the human ego makes it impossible. Requiring that people become dependent on third parties to make all the decisions that affect their lives cannot possibly work. In the end someone inevitably gets the short end of the stick.

Some peoples' needs - or even their very lives - will invariably be seen as 'expendable' under such circumstances. This is inherent to the system and it cannot be stopped or prevented. The only chance we have would be to abandon this third-person process of decision-making and take back our inherent right as sovereign persons to do this for ourselves.

At the same time society needs to decentralize and people need to re-discover how to work co-operatively in our common interest. This is in fact how people lived once upon a time. But this pyramidal, ego-based restructuring of human societies that has been forced upon us has brought us to the edge of the abyss. 

Whether or not we can overcome this remains to be seen - but the only hope for our survival lies in making an honest, sustained effort to do just that.

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