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Freedom or Slavery
I've said this before and I'll say it again, no matter how many people think it's a right-wing statement; people don't deserve freedom. They bang on about their rights to do this, and their rights to do that. They demand it on a daily basis, and when it's delivered they demand more.
And what do they do when they get it? They abuse it. They abuse it to the limit of it's endurance and when it breaks they demand it fixed. Email is a case in point. Email is a wonderful thing. It's one of the greatest gifts to the human ability to communicate. And what did people do? They fucked it up to the point where it's virtually useless. Why? For their own personla greed. As they have also fucked up virtually every other gift given to them.
Every single freedom granted to mankind has been taken and ruined by mankind. No, not everyone is guilty of this, but enough. And everyone else stands by and lets it happen because they don't want to take away anyones 'freedom'. Over the years this has become worse. Stepping on anyones toes, restricting anyones freedom of expression or their freedom to do whatever the hell they feel like is seen as an abuse of human rights... when the same people who rabbit on about their 'rights' and 'freedom' routinely abuse and restrict the rights of others on regular basis.
My own personal belief is this: That people should earn rights, that in order to have rights granted to you you have to prove that you are capable of respecting those rights and respecting the rights of others. Right now we have a system where your rights are expected to be adhered to without you having to give a flying fuck about anyone elses. Other people can die, they can starve, they can live in misery, they can be driven to poverty and despair, can even be bombed off the face of the earth and you don't have to give a shit so long as you get your slice of pie, the slice YOU are due, and if you can get two slices because someone else was too slow finding a plate then so be it.
At some point if we want to evolve and stop the slide of devolution we will have to start taking some responsibility for the wider world we live in. Responsibility for the parts of it we touch. The people we effect. For people to get beyond this fucking need to make money and power at all costs. To get to a point where they feel that doing something to make quick cash or a thrill that will hurt someone else might not be worth it. Even if you don't know them. Even if you don't have to see them suffer or cry. To realise that sending that pile of bulk emails is going to stress a load of people out and perhaps there might be a better and more honest way to make a living...
Make a living. What a misused phrase. It used to imply what people did to get though live. To put the food on the table. To clothes the kids. To pay for the home. And to maybe pay for some nice things. These days it's all about making as much money as possible, regardless of where it comes from or who has to lose out. At some point making enough money to live comfortably stopped being enough and now people just want ot make as much money as they can. Because they can. There is talk of the Disney takeover. Which may go ahead, because the shareholders think they can get more money, despite the fact it might lead to Disney becoming more of hidously manipulative cash cow than it already is. It doesn't NEED to make anymore money. But it's the way of business; enough is never enough. More, and more, and if there is some way of making even more then so be it.
Greed. No-one wants to hear about it. It's passe. Nothing wrong with wanting the best. Life is hard. Survival of the fittest. If so then I wish people would be honest about it. Then we can get rid of those wasteful facilities for looking after the runts of the litter. The welfare state, the free health services, the money spent on looking after the old, the crippled, the infirm. think of all the money that could be saved and put into more important things if we didn't have to support the weak.
Which way is the true way forward for the human race? Learning compassion? Or losing it? Because at the moment we are just living in hypocrisy.
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