New year, new you? New year's discussions typically take place closer to the beginning of the new year but, which? There are many ethnic and antiquated calendar options that mark the beginning of some new time period or another. So, let's just say that this here is inspired by one of those and not another personal lap around the sun.
This last year has been exciting like a carnival ride with some screws loose. I haven't been paying much attention though, so maybe it's all very well and good and things aren't on fire while the fire department is missing. However, at the end of the day, none of that really matters. Now, I'm not so cynical as to say that it doesn't matter who is president of your shit hole country, whether he's an orange narcissistic buffoon or some type of necromancer's manchurian candidate. I am so cynical as to say that I prioritize nearly everything else above politics.
I look down on people in politics because they're made of compromise and I'm a generally uncompromising individual. I look down on the emotional rhetoric and fallacious reasoning. I think you need to be a certain kind of weak person to even want to get involved in telling others what to do when I have yet to encounter anyone that knows for certain what they need to do themselves. It's all very "other-ing" and a little disturbing.
I've talked before about the need to sort out our own problems before attempting to help anyone else and I think that's epitomized by my view of politics and politicians and "pushers". It stops becoming a stereotype when it's true every single time that there is some fundamental flaw with people that want to push their agenda. Maybe they're simply a greedy bag of garbage, but what about the sociopaths that slip through? The degenerates and reprobates some people call "leaders" are a sickness upon our world, electable only because the outward appearance is initially palatable.
The problem isn't in the people, we're generally flawed. There have been thousands of years of religious lament trying to reconcile the fact that humans, almost all the time, fall far short of our ideals. We try to be righteous and a faithful husband but then some temptress next door stumbles in during a rain storm and hormones and bad decisions take over and then ... guilt. We feel bad and then need to do something about it. Our ancestors, whether we agree with it or not, largely flocked to some kind of church for help with the guilt.
These imperfections of man don't always need to be so visceral. When we think of ourselves as patient and kind and then lose our patience and become cruel for a second, we need to address the discrepancy. Self image creates cognitive dissonance when reality creeps in and we inevitably fall short of the ideals we set forth for ourselves. The feeling of almost guilt starts to settle because we know we're capable of doing better.
There is also a natural call for help to outside sources when we fall short of our goals because of some external limitation. Our ancestors hoped for things to happen and asked their gods in the form of prayer. Today, when we don't live up to that image we have of ourselves, we appeal to the authority of the day and gripe about things being unfair. They are unfair, because collectively as humans, we've allowed this to happen. We've allowed a string of broken people to lead because they are palatable to the masses. Democracy in action.
I do not think the system can be fixed. That's actually the really dangerous lie, thinking that those entrenched in power will ever give it up. The only way to actually fix the problems we have in society is to break the existing system and start over. Parasites have taken it over and it is just a shell of what it once was. If we ever hope to live in a truly "just" world, we need to destroy the existing one and start over. It is possible to live in harmony and balance with one another and nature, but not with a democracy or a republic or whatever this reprehensible financial oligarchy is masquerading as these days.
Politically, I think we ought to be accelerationists and survivalists. Although I just can't really get into any of the anarchy vibes I see from the youth lately, it's a bit too "the king is dead, long live the king." Replacing one flawed system with another is just wasted effort when history has shown us that has never worked before.
This was just some thoughts about the state of things today. This year's argument is just as silly as last year's and will undoubtedly be just as silly next year. This was pretty misanthropic but it's good to get that out from time to time. Maybe.
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