Huh?
by Dr. Pants on Apr.06, 2007, under Life and the Universe, Norway, Politics
I got the place to myself for the night.
I can honestly say that the system is broken. Hillary and Obama both raised 50 mil already. Am I the only one that says, ‘Why don’t they put that money to good use?” I know that is a very simplistic idea but damn do they spend a lot of money to get elected. Does this seem terribly skewed to anyone?
A few years back I was actually into politics. I’ll tell ya.. the last few years have just ripped and stomped any type of hope I had for a better future for the world. Maybe as we get older it looks worse and worse and that is how it has always been. Or maybe shit is REALLY fucked up now. So when is the revolution… Never. Too many waiting for their Wii to be delivered.
Too many people are slaves to their debt and their health care. Too many people are too damn busy working their asses off just to get by. Personally the idea of having a mandatory paid five weeks vacation this year makes me feel sad for those ‘left behind’ in the states. This place is by no means perfect but they do pay everyone for 5 weeks vacation every year.
April 7th, 2007 on 1:58 pm
dr Pants:
Maybe as we get older it looks worse and worse and that is how it has always been. Or maybe shit is REALLY fucked up now.
This is a question I’ve been dwelling on for a couple of years now. I was on the West German/East German/Czech border back in the early 80s, when we used to speculate about when/if “the balloon goes up” meaning all-out World War III stuff. Still, I never felt the sense of anxiety and concern about the future as I do now - not even close. So, I wonder too: has it always been this fucked up, but it just seems more so now that I’m older, or is it really that much worse?
My gut tells me it’s the latter, but I don’t know how you prove that. I guess I can speculate that my parents, or the generation right before me, who were older back in the 80’s, didn’t seem to have that sense of things being so out of whack, as they seem to be now. But I cannot really know how they were feeling, just as I know someone who is 21 can’t possibly know the depths of my concern right now.
Still, and though you’re younger than I am, I wonder how many of us are asking that same question? I guess it’s impossible to know. And maybe we’re now the product of so much more, real time information than we were then (back in the days when my source of global daily events is what I managed to glean from the “Stars and Stripes”, if I got around to reading it that day.
As to your comment regarding the annual 5-week vacation thing, I don’t have any doubts about that. Even five weeks isn’t enough, but Jeez, I wish we’d all catch up to that reality, and sooner rather than later.
April 8th, 2007 on 5:47 am
I have sat and thought about the information revolution and how it has opened up the world to us.. .making bad news much more available.
But then I look at what is happening in Britain (basically no privacy, millions of cameras everywhere) and all the changes that have happened in the US in the last 7 years and I think this country may finally be self-destructing. No other time compares in our nations history.
April 10th, 2007 on 4:25 pm
Hey! Whatchu assholes have against the zombie armies of progress? Progress means everyone pushing in the same direction. If you aren’t standing in the way of progress, don’t expect to see no slow moving train wreck, assholes.