Replying to a friends status post on FickleBarf earlier, I got a bit 'lyrical' I think I'd call it....it brought to mind how the day to day situation we live in, in the UK seems to have changed quite dramatically recently. He had said how he was feeling like he never thought he would do....apolitical and frustrated....
what I wrote was....
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Politics is too important to be left to those scurrilous, dishonest, lying, amoral self serving parasites who sit in judgment of the rest of us, making laws to legalise hate, criminalise freedom and fill their own pockets with all they can ...get their greedy hands on....politics is about our communities, our friends, families, work mates, how we live, love, laugh and cry together.. don't give up on your true feelings of whats right and wrong in this world [xxx]....such ideas and values are part of what makes us all who we are, stay strong,"
It's rare that I find I can put into words what I actually really feel and mean....and it has prompted this blog.
In my time, I've been political, though not in that party way, but more from a sense of morality, a feeling of whats right and wrong. Suspicious of dogma, I find it hard to find any 'ist' to be...anarchist communist socialist feminist....prefer to be activ-ist in my own small way.....
never comfortable with the 'left and right' of the political 'spectrum' (no, not my other day job!) being convenient labels that can all to easily be used as a weapon against you, words being as they are, definitions can be binding controlling fastening restricting, especially if it isn't you who sets the type of the printing press, in a figurative sorta way.
these days, it seems that we have a polarity developing in a similar vein to that of the 80's during the time of Thatchers government, though I can see a more desperate frustrating and anquished tone in in the air....
Who can we trust? Where are the glorious rabblerousing defiant charismatic leaders to lead the downtrodden masses to the promised land? The same place they have been for so long....in our dreams, told to us in mythic rewritten historical dramas, replaced by 'the ordinary man (and sometimes now, woman) who defies the odds in a 3D widescreen version, dolby stereophonic sound with CGI accompaniment.
perhaps this time around, we won't follow the rabbit down the hole....look at each other, remember who we love respect work with play with live with die with....we have more in common than we can see or hear, disenfranchised unempowered marginalised or perhaps you feel more fortunate? a job a home toys to play with though some are now finding out how easy they can be lost. Some of us know it already, have been there and may get the 'fear'....'i dont want to go back to that' ...'after all my hard work' ... with the added realisation that we got 'out' the first time round because of the energy of youth with time on our side.
no one is innocent but some are more guilty than others....I think I heard that said somewhere before but it escapes me where...forget the blame game....forget what the news tells you, hey, forget what your newspaper radio television computer is telling you for a moment at least (yes, even this bloggeral) and think...
fear or love....a simple choice someone once said....join with those you love, not those you fear
there are many practical tips idioms ways of living that people may propose as a solution to the ills of us all...I'm not really confident that I know the answer, but I believe that looking for one is a good start
asking the question may not lead to life love liberty for all but I think ...
what do we have to lose but our fear?
