Politics

I read posts all over the web from people complaining about elected governments not serving the majority interest. Bad luck. You obviously have insufficient funds and influence. If you want to change the world get obscenely rich and do something about it other wise just sit back (or bend over) and enjoy the ride. Let go of this romantic notion that political activism will change anything. It hasn’t in the past and will not in the future.

Don’t fool yourself that some magical post will change anything. It won’t. A true, logical and sound argument read by millions means squat. Yes politicians will enact laws that the “people” cry out for but only on the proviso that it doesn’t interfere with persons who hold power. You know the sort of thing – anti abortion laws, save a bit of habitat there, no gay marriages; basically stuff that doesn’t matter except for a few individuals with insufficient power. And that is the nub of the argument; those with power are not the fools we elect and pay a few hundred grand a year to act on our behalf.

Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) expressed it best when he stated that the general public had about as much chance of electing true and worthy leaders as a dog pissing the Mona Lisa into a snow bank. I believe even that is an optimistic estimate. It is impossible to elect the people who run the world – they elect themselves.

For our leaders the government/s is/are just an easy way to deal with the trivial administrative functions that they see no profit in.

There might have been some mythical point where the good and noble represented society but I have yet to find when that time was. At each point in history I sample, with sufficient scrutiny, I find the feudal system was alive and well. In the past it was tribal chiefs, kings and barons now it is the über rich, perhaps less than a few thousand individuals, who run the world.

This is the order of humanity.