Re: True Story of the Day
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2024 12:27 am
Here's why the world still goes on. U wouldn't think it but here it is. Becuz human life spans are only eighty years average, a single person doesn't live long enough to notice how nothing ever happens despite politicians promising change and repeating the same podium formulas for decades on end.
Except for a few major democratic reforms and new social programs like social security, medicare and a minimum wage, the general direction in the last fifty years of the average working person/family has been toward increasing personal debt and working more hours (becuz of said debt).
But becuz nobody lives long enough... or maybe i could explain it like this: if u traveled into the future another fifty years and saw this horrible dystopian world where everybody worked all the time and where the statistics and numbers for all the bad stuff were triple what they were fifty years ago - homelessness, gun related deaths, prison populations, illegal immigration, drug overdoses, unwanted pregnancies, home foreclosures, world poverty, bankruptcy, international wars, etc. - u would know that what all the politicians would say and promise for those fifty years leading up to the future dystopian world you're now seeing, was absolute bullshit and that none of em knew wtf they were doing anyway becuz they were systemically wrong at what they were doing. They were part and parcel of a system that couldn't get better, one that isn't able to get better becuz in order for it to work, shit has to get worse and worse for more and more, very gradually, over periods of time that can't be witnessed or lived by a single generation. So each politician sounds promising, appears to have a workable vision that can 'turn things around', and u get all excited and think if this guy's in office, America's problems will go away.
But they never do. They get worse... and by the time u notice, the guy's long gone, or, enough shit has transpired during his office term that it's impossible to place the blame on a single identifiable cause for whatever problems he's being blamed for. And again, it's no politician's fault that they are useless weight in a disfunctional government. The circumstance are such as they are becuz of the way their jobs and roles are structured, their function, their capacities and powers. How they are forced to perform in a system in which the government acts as a nanny to the lower classes (dems) or as an enabler of the wealthiest classes by limiting government (repubs), but not as an entity that seeks to change capitalism. Naturally they can't ever suggest a radical reformation of society becuz that would involve dismantling and making unnecessary their function and the government they form.
What to do then. Repeat essentially empty and ambiguous party slogans to make america great, for your entire term in office. Maybe change a few insignificant things around like insulin prices or abortion rights (until you're gone and the next politician guy comes along and reverses your ruling), but do nothing that will matter in ten years, much less fifty. Then u can retire and get a couple summer homes having served your country and its citizens well.
Except for a few major democratic reforms and new social programs like social security, medicare and a minimum wage, the general direction in the last fifty years of the average working person/family has been toward increasing personal debt and working more hours (becuz of said debt).
But becuz nobody lives long enough... or maybe i could explain it like this: if u traveled into the future another fifty years and saw this horrible dystopian world where everybody worked all the time and where the statistics and numbers for all the bad stuff were triple what they were fifty years ago - homelessness, gun related deaths, prison populations, illegal immigration, drug overdoses, unwanted pregnancies, home foreclosures, world poverty, bankruptcy, international wars, etc. - u would know that what all the politicians would say and promise for those fifty years leading up to the future dystopian world you're now seeing, was absolute bullshit and that none of em knew wtf they were doing anyway becuz they were systemically wrong at what they were doing. They were part and parcel of a system that couldn't get better, one that isn't able to get better becuz in order for it to work, shit has to get worse and worse for more and more, very gradually, over periods of time that can't be witnessed or lived by a single generation. So each politician sounds promising, appears to have a workable vision that can 'turn things around', and u get all excited and think if this guy's in office, America's problems will go away.
But they never do. They get worse... and by the time u notice, the guy's long gone, or, enough shit has transpired during his office term that it's impossible to place the blame on a single identifiable cause for whatever problems he's being blamed for. And again, it's no politician's fault that they are useless weight in a disfunctional government. The circumstance are such as they are becuz of the way their jobs and roles are structured, their function, their capacities and powers. How they are forced to perform in a system in which the government acts as a nanny to the lower classes (dems) or as an enabler of the wealthiest classes by limiting government (repubs), but not as an entity that seeks to change capitalism. Naturally they can't ever suggest a radical reformation of society becuz that would involve dismantling and making unnecessary their function and the government they form.
What to do then. Repeat essentially empty and ambiguous party slogans to make america great, for your entire term in office. Maybe change a few insignificant things around like insulin prices or abortion rights (until you're gone and the next politician guy comes along and reverses your ruling), but do nothing that will matter in ten years, much less fifty. Then u can retire and get a couple summer homes having served your country and its citizens well.