"There are times when you find, lobsters in a bucket, can't climb out.
Why won't they climb away? Because other lobsters pull them down."
~ The Aquabats, Lobster Bucket
Instead of expending our mental a physical energies trying to figure out how to pull people into our mess, why don't we use those same energies to pull ourselves out of the mess?
If it weren't for the media would you even care or understand what happens to your tax money after it disappears from your paycheck? Do you look at the government financial reports personally and gasp at the way your taxes are allocated? Or rather, are you given a fraction of the story through a media filter? Does political and media rabble-rousing really give you an informed opinion, or does it create a superficial distraction to conceal the blatant corruption in society?
To maintain power, the political over-class creates "us vs. them" scenarios. To quote Bob Marley:
"They don't want to see us unite:
All they want us to do is keep on fussing and fighting.
They don't want to see us live together:
All they want us to do is keep on killing one another."
Our keepers are too few to keep us all in line, so they play us off against one another. The false left/right political paradigm exemplifies this perfectly. No matter who you put in office, the results are the same: taxes, bigger government, and war. But isn't it nice to have the Republican slaves fighting with the Democrat slaves? We hate each other so much that we rush back into the arms our masters, waving our ballots, screaming save US from THEM.
I reject it all. It is corrupt and immoral. I don't want more slaves just because I am slave.
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