Month: June 2017

A somewhat conservative acquaintance of mine and I were talking the other day. He voted for Donnie but didn’t care that much. He said “they’re all the same. I hate them all equally.” Not the first time I heard that.  Can’t say I feel differently. I don’t think many wanted either Donnie or Hill to win. Anybody else would do. Obviously that’s not everybody’s opinion, but how did so many get that way?  My acquaintance said “do you think that DJ or Hill even know the price of a gallon of gas?”

I had to agree. Why is it that so many of our leaders are so far removed from reality? There are the obvious answers: they’re born into it; they’ve long since passed the point where they had to think about such things; they’re thinking about higher level questions and solutions. But I wonder, do they really care about every day people’s issues or do they just care about pulling strings and power and money and glory? Are these the people that we want as leaders? Shouldn’t our leaders be leading us in the right direction instead of fighting amongst themselves and getting themselves ahead? Isn’t this part of the issue? The elites moving further ahead and the rest of the animals being left behind?

And why is it that there are only two sides? Is it divide and conquer? Each has its favorite issues and oppose each other on those issues. And that’s all we have to vote for is two sides. When I talk to people, they have specific issues. Yet they can’t vote on those issues. They have to settle for a candidate who most fits their belief system and values.  It’s become totally partisan.

So therefore none of these people seem to work for us, we the people. They work for themselves and a set of values that they feel will drive them forward. Maybe they even believe in those values. What if we had a choice that would do what we the people actually want? What if we could vote for specific issues instead? We have the technology. We could literally put the issues out to vote and each one of those issues could be decided separately. Seems to me that would bring more efficiency to the governmental system.

I propose that we put people in leadership positions who promise to do what we say based on how we vote on specific issues. Then we hold them to it and if they try to push through what they think should happen instead of what we the people want, we fire them.

They’re on both sides you know. Left and right and all in between. We are all part of the problem.  We just don’t care a whole lot. Not about the right things anyway. Sure, some of us actually care about our family and friends. But in the right way? Do we care about their health and their environment? Or do we care about what they think of us and our stuff?  And do we care about others outside of our circle and the world in general or do we care about whether we get a new TV for another room?

Don’t get me wrong. Some of us care a whole lot. There are some who put their whole lives into caring. I’m sorry, I’m not one of them. But a lot of us don’t care much at all. I’m not one of them either.  I’m just saying the average isn’t good.

See, animals don’t have this problem. They don’t have a choice. They care about what they need to care about to survive and to propagate and to thrive. Somewhere along monkey or later we developed this big brain  with the ability to care about other things.  But when we were in the tribe if we cared about the wrong things for too long we either became ruler and ruined the tribe or the rest of the tribe would beat us. To correct our thinking so to speak.

Segregation of duties and separation of families and people have in part created a situation where we don’t have to care. Or at least we think we don’t.  So has plentifulness and the feeling that we need more of what we already have.  My guess is all this is going to come bite us.

Many don’t even care to think much at all.

Think. Care. Survive. Thrive.