The fate of the world
POSTED BY: WashsYoungerSexierBr
UPDATED: Friday, December 2, 2011 15:17
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I'm gonna stop reading the news. Everyday it seems the world is going backwards. The government is penny pinching from peoples pensions and cutting tax credits for the bottom bracket households whilst big business is allowed to skip off paying taxes. Peaceful protests are being shut down through violent police action whilst bankers enjoy six figure bonuses as we slip into a double dip recession. Scotland is going to start charging exorbitant fees for English students. People are protesting against loving healthy relationships because two people happen to be of the same sex whilst celebrities are adored and worshipped over 24 hour marriages. Governments are pouring huge resources into holding peace in a country we invaded for no reason whilst ex army veterans kill themselves because they cannot afford to eat. Higher education funding is being cut all around with fewer PhD places available, who's going to cure diseases if nobody can get educated? The world is headed on a swift spiral in the wrong direction.
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Don't panic. It's not as bad as everyone says. The world has always been full of shit and full of good stuff.
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Yep, I have days like that too.
Then I remember chocolate.Mmmmmm.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. It's prolly not gonna fix much...but you'll feel shiny 
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Just relax and enjoy. I don't think the headlines have changed much in millenia. This song was written in 1958...
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Hang in there, Washs, they're right, and the pendulum always swings--it's already swinging on some of that stuff. But definitely DO avoid the news if it makes you feel this way; you need to take care of YOU, the rest will do its own thing anyway, and the world has always been fucked up in twenty ways or others. Think of some of the gains the world has made:
We have a Black President (admittedly as useless as all the others, but it's forward movement in that respect)
More people accept gays and same-sex marriage than ever before in America, laws are changing, and there is a younger generation coming up who mostly don't take it as seriously as their parents
We're getting out of Iraq, finally! (Or at leat mostly...)
The country always swings right, then left, then right again; it's just that the right overreached this time and the swing from right to left to right and now headed left again was VERY fast
Celebrities, be they movie stars, rock stars, sports stars or any such have always been revered and allowed to get away with what normal people wouldn't--look back to the beginning of talkies, it was true then; that's nothing new
Protesters CHOOSE to put themselves in harm's way; we OWSers have a long, long way to go and it's gonna get real ugly, we know and accept that. Violence by TPTB just helps our cause. But look how fast Occupies appeared all over the country...people are waking up
There's lots more, and some of it has been around for centuries; there will always be ignorant people, at all times in history.
I know how you feel, I've done the same. It's good to take a break from the news, or get away from it altogether. Your mental health is the priority; do things in your own life and let the world take care of itself, it always does.
Oh, and welcome to RWED, haven't met you before. Watch out tho'; it's a snake pit down here, and most likely not good for your mental health either!
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Quote:This is the biggest reason for hope that I've seen in quite a while!
Originally posted by Niki2:
But look how fast Occupies appeared all over the country...people are waking up
The laughing Chrisisall
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Our country is always dancing on the edge of a knife. Its just the way we are.
Some things get better, some things get worse.
Some good things, IMHO:
1. Gun rights: People are finally realizing that having a tool, and the responsibility that comes with it, are essential to their lives and their freedoms.
2. Money: People are finally realizing that going into debt to keep up with the Kardashians is both insane and dangerous.
3. Race relations: People finally realize that supporting individualism is the best path to equality. Grouping people by race or heritage is both insane and dangerous. If everyone is an individual, and to be judged on their singular merits... we are all free and equal.
4. Womens Rights/Families: People are starting to realize that the "nuclear family" works a hell of a lot better than single-mothers.
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"
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Quote:
Originally posted by Wishimay:
Be the change you wish to see in the world. It's prolly not gonna fix much...but you'll feel shiny
You know, that reminds me of a proverb someone offered me as a child which I really took to heart...
"If you do not KNOW the answer, then you must BE the answer!"
But yanno, there's been at least one positive change in our society I had a nice piece of, so it's always worth it to try, no matter how hopeless it seems to begin with.
Besides, history works in cycles, generally, we've been here before, remember.
And it did get better, for a while.
As our Founding Fathers so clearly noted, every so often we the peons gotta put a boot up the ass of our so-called leaders to keep em honest, ain't pretty when it happens, but it sure beats the alternative.
My only real bitch is how we keep letting em slide, let our better nature allow us to forgive and forget, and that allows them to sleaze back into power over and over again, like a decaying orbit and we never quite get back all the ground we lose each time - comes a time when forgiveness is what enables the bastards... but then, ruthlessness ain't all it's cracked up to be cause beating them is pointless if you BECOME them in the process, neh ?
Mercy and Kindness are better weapons than any physical thing that can be taken or destroyed, Knowledge is power that cannot be stripped so easily, and Love is the only force on earth that multiplies when shared.
-Frem
I do not serve the Blind God.
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Speaking of which, it really bugs me how occupy sucks up to the police. Then the police grab and rape another girl, and then the occupiers get angry for 15 min, and then they start sucking up again.
That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.
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Hello Dream,
Your comments need some kind of context or background information.
--Anthony
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"In every war, the state enacts a tax of freedom upon the citizenry. The unspoken promise is that the tax shall be revoked at war's end. Endless war holds no such promise. Hence, Eternal War is Eternal Slavery." --Admiral Robert J. Henner
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