Stop attacking, start creating
ahem....
well, instead of attacking if you don't like the tune, write another one and see if the majority like it over what is being presented . Same as starting a business, get your plan, do what you want and see if there is a market for it. In martial arts we are taught that if we try to fight against the attackers energy they will always win. Guess what? If you keep attacking the other side they will take all your energy and keep winning. Harper and his government are laughing at you all... Call me flacky if you want, but study history and economic cycles and you will see how important it is to be clear about what you offer. If the others dont want it, then you have an idea whose time has not come. Then let go and realise that you cant fight destiny...in my humble opinion.
The Harpers aren't presenting much to the public, though. I think they are following the hawkish US lead that goes something like: What the people don't know can't hurt them.
And it's the opposition NDP's job to make sure they shadow the Harpers every move and report to Canadians what it is that the Harpers aren't saying very much about deliberately and on purpose. In that way the Harpers will continue to govern like it's 2006 and still with a de-fanged minority. Having the NDP breathing down their necks must be a lot like neutering except it's a counterweight to scary right wing politicos in phony majority government.
Flacky.
We've been creating wealth for capitalists for centuries.
or just attack creatively?
i think the main stumbling block to "writing your own tune", just like in the music industry is: The people who are in power control most of the means of distributing this new tune. They make sure to keep pretty much everything that doesn't gel with their view of how things should sound out of plain sight from the vast majority of people, while pushing their own tunes on everyone and rewarding those who conform with money and power.
And, we have for the last decade or more been more aware of inequality, but somehow we love to be amused to death...I actually feel there is no hope for the human race and that we are getting what we all deserve when we trust government to act in our best interest, when actually government is just another business, no matter who you vote for, if you bother at all...
And now I am going back to playing my tunes to the cats and ignoring the hell breaking loose all around me...
ahh, so perseptive, lol
storywizard said:
I actually feel there is no hope for the human race and that we are getting what we all deserve when we trust government to act in our best interest, when actually government is just another business, no matter who you vote for, if you bother at all..
People have and are fighting and dying in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria because they have had enough of getting squashed by simply ignoring the situation. At some point you realize that you will not get anywhere unless you fight and that includes for a better government. My great-great-great grandmother was one of the few survivors of a famine village in Ireland in the 1840s when the free market policies of English economists, such as Malthus and Senior, and English government, who saw the famine as an "act of providence" that would clear the land of much of the Irish peasantry so that it could be exploited by the new capitalist class, said that the Irish deserved to starve because they had not adapted to the new economic conditions. Oh and by the way Malthus added that that the Irish were "not human". It took more than 700 years and many defeats to win Ireland's freedom. My uncle didn't give up and led the liberation of his village from the Irish. My father, who went through the Depression and fought in the Second World War, did not give up because he did not believe that a Nazi government was the same as a democratic government, even though his own economic system meant he never got a regular job until he was 33 years of age. He fought for better living standards. The lesson of the Irish Tiger and the Canadian economy is that after social conditions have improved you must continue to fight against those forces that would and have stripped away the gains that we have made. There is an Irish saying for this "No surrender".
You are right, however, that we need to move beyond occupying things and start proposing and taking actions personally and with respect to government, to improve the situation. That is starting to happen now.