Politics

Why isn't there a politician out there whose whole platform lies on the premise of raising the standard of living for every person in their country? To provide clean water, nutritious food, stellar education and shelter are the most important things to everyone. All this talk of war and gay marriage and economy should always take second place to the question: Are my people happy and healthy? Everything else is secondary.

Once a society has all it needs to survive, to sustain itself, then and only then can it worry about anything and keep a clear head and conscience about it. Right now, we are in a state of spiritual, mental, emotional and physical chaos. How are we expected to be able to react to anything in a calm, cool and collected manner? We abuse ourselves, brainwash our children, bomb our mother moon, poison our own life source and never take a moment to just stop and think about it all. Because when we do, we recognize the utter stupidity in our actions.

We have the technology to provide everything necessary for life to every person on this planet and yet we wage war for resources, resources which can be officially written off as obsolete. Oil doesn't have to rule us anymore! We have infinite options, infinite potential for innovation. We can do anything! And yet we spend all our energy and resources on war machines and fear mongering. Our entire focus needs to change.

Stop it with the hate, stop it with the bigotry and "bipartisanship" charade. The secret's out! Everyone with eyes and a brain knows Congress has been corrupted, the government's fucked! It's obvious and inescapable at this point. We need to stop boxing ourselves, labeling this box as 'Democrat', that as 'Conservative', those as 'Terrorists', etc. etc. Aren't we all only human? Only mammals trying to survive and procreate and have some sort of stability and, if at all possible, happiness?

We are the most advanced life form we know of and yet we kill one another more often and in greater numbers than any other being. Over stupid, petty shit. Like whether this dude or that dude said this or if it was actually him saying that or really it was her who said it and, if so, then that changes everything because she was rumored two thousand years later to be a harlot.

Get over it.

There is only one truth and that is: WE DON'T KNOW. Sure, it can be hard to acknowledge but once we do, we can move on to start maybe, tentatively, thinking something, or feeling something or even accepting something as probably true. Theorizing and postulating will replace believing and mandating. There is a certain freedom in realizing that nothing is for certain, nothing can be taken for granted. It releases you to be and do and make and think and trust whatever you want to. All of these rules and regulations we've set out for ourselves are slowing us down. We need not wage war or advance our wartime technology (for God's sake we already have enough firepower to destroy every planet in our solar system!), we need not squabble over the right to get high while people are starving.

What we are doing, what politics has turned into, is a bullshit waste of time. We need organic food and untainted water and a roof over our heads. And then we can decide who gets the IPad and whose prophet's dick was bigger. The measuring stick should only come out after everyone's treated like a human being, after everyone is finally able to live without fear of hunger and thirst and punishment for crimes committed generations past and nasty, man-made illnesses and so many other easily avoidable discomforts.

Once, we were 'endowed by {our} Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.' I think it's time we act on those Rights and really start Living.