I’m amazed at one thing: how up to speed I am with current events, these days. Since the TV’s reception is bad, I’ve almost completely given up on watching any programme at all, but every time I sit in the living room to eat my meals, I switch on the news channel. That gives me a sum-up of what is ‘going on’ on the day, though of course I’m now amused at the fact that only about 5 things seem to happen in the world on any given day - but nothing much ever happens over the weekend, really, and it’s as though weekends were invented to give the world a rest: nothing major therefore happens, but comes Monday all the trouble kicks off again, right?...
Of course, this week I started buying newspapers again, because I get them half price at uni, and there is a more varied batch of news from around the world, and some writers do have interesting points to make.
“The European Union is kind of sinister...” said Tim last time I saw him. You can say that again.
At school, they teach you to embrace the ideals that the EU claims to embody, so that you are not afraid of what is potentially on the road to becoming a new super-state governed by an elite we, the people, have no control over. I remember how, when I was still in primary school, they would teach us the names and capitals of the countries that had joined the EU. At the time, there were only 15, but now we’re fast approaching the big 30. In 2008, Ireland’s referendum - that is the people’s vote on a specific question - rejected the treaty of Lisbon, you see. Fast forward to this month, and it seems the people need to vote again on the same question, and that makes it look like the power-that-be are really saying “okay, folks, we’re gonna make you vote again because let’s face it, you didn’t pick the right option.”
The piece of paper you vote on that gives you the option of a YES or NO really doesn’t have two options, only the one they want you to choose, which in the case of the Lisbon treaty means a big fat YES. So they’ll hassle people until they get what they want, especially now that the opposition is run-down and the media coerced to endorse the ‘necessity’ of a YES vote.
Oh, the EU is also paving the way for a mighty president, except there is no document whatsoever as to that president’s role, duties, let alone to explain what the position is for or what powers exactly he will have. Apparently, Tony Blair is tipped as one possible winner... I guess that says it all.
It’s all such a shamble... Too many things are happening at once in almost every single area, creating more confusion and chaos. They make you believe that the economy is going to hell, but even if this happens to be the case, it was willed to happened. Yes, they wanted the economy to crash, and in that sense, the crash becomes a very carefully crafted ploy with very intricate safeguards to ensure that while we see the economy crash, they really still have perfect control over it. In other words, they can make it crash, but they can make it go up again because they hold absolute control over the economy, much like a skilled rider spooking his mount but still able to calm it down. After all, banks are the owners of quite a big chunk of the world... They and any government under which you live, also like to think that they own you and all the children you may bear under their umbrella. Scary thought? A reality nonetheless.
Every time you get credit, it is from a bank, and every day you spend in credit makes you the bank’s pawn. Every time you accept government money or financial help of any kind, it doesn’t matter that the money comes from the tax payer’s pocket, you and your family become the government’s pawn. They see you as an asset or commodity which they OWN, therefore whatever bad thing they do to you means nothing to them. They’ve already bought you, and just like a toy that broke, they can always buy a new one. Even the good old worker cannot escape the harsh reality of ownership.
Because you live in cities or use commodities provided by a branch of the government, you become, just like the rest, a pawn, and you belong, like any object, to the state. You have to put yourself in the people in power’s shoes for a minute to grasp that concept of ownership, and when you do, you realise that whatever horror they spring on us makes sense in the light that they see things. What is a population to a handful of corrupted people in power living in mansions and spending millions mindlessly for their own little comfort? To them, we look like tiny little ants running about everywhere, so easily squashed under a boot, and still we reproduce endlessly so that no matter how many fall, the supply of ants never falters too dangerously.
The world never changed, only the words used and landscapes.
Being born in this world sucks if you happen to have a brain that allows you to think fairly and critically. It makes you wish at times that you were born a real ant, so that no matter what happened, at least you wouldn’t be conscious of any wrong-doing. You’d just happen to be squashed or exploited, without the shadow of a second thought.
They give you some comfort, coupled with the idea that money and success can allow you to get even more comfort and luxuries... Fair enough if that’s what one wants, but what about others who, like me, are looking for something more out of this one life we have?
Peace was never some unreachable ideal; peace was turned into that idealistic, naive notion to fit with the age old agenda to keep the world a breeding ground for conflict so that a few could get richer and above all else. I believe that peace is the easiest ideal to attain, but those in power are making sure to prevent it from ever happening. Of course, nowadays it’s hard to agree with such a statement, but that’s all part of the trick, isn’t it? Make people think and feel as though the world of human affairs is so complicated that they’ll end up believing the biggest sham of all times: that peace is a complex notion, that satisfaction and happiness is linked to wealth and success, that corruption and selfish ways are just something that always will be.
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