Posts Tagged system
December 5, 2009 at 7:52 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged philosophy, poem, poetry, symptomatic, system
Is it perhaps symptomatic
Of inane inventions,
Self-conversations…
That the senses of such a system
Will wish to certify assumptions
You call it extended functions.
I call it delirium
Is it perhaps idiomatic
That you long to be cold,
Just to feel anything?
Self-preservation…
It is just another word for fear, or apathy
For why build a machine
Which will only serve to hunt you?
You call this love of living.
I call it cowardice.
Is it pessimistic,
To believe the sky is not blue,
But melancholic?
And is it too natural to assert
That small-talk is histrionic.
For how long can big-talk play hide and seek,
Before it grows tired of such nonsense?
You call this political.
I call it distracted.
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April 25, 2008 at 12:37 pm
· Filed under Links, Politics, society ·Tagged america, detained, incarceration, inmate, penal, prison, system
Interesting and informative article on the American prison system. As of December 31, 2006, American prisons held 2,258,983 inmates in prisons. In 2005, about 1 out of every 136 U.S. residents was incarcerated either in prison or jail. Much of this is because of the ‘war on drugs’.
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March 24, 2008 at 1:13 pm
· Filed under Politics, Random Rants, society ·Tagged change, choice, democracy, freedom, futile, government, law, people, Politics, reform, system, uk, voluntary, voting
From the Guardian:
‘A significant overhaul of electoral legislation to give voters a second vote, open polling stations at weekends and make it compulsory to participate is being proposed by the government to increase turnout and improve the legitimacy of the Commons.’
Let me paraphrase that. The most important and shocking section of that paragraph is the ‘ compulsory to participate’ . This means under the new voting system in the UK, people over 18 will be forced to vote.
This is ridiculous for many reasons. Voting is an essential part of a healthy democracy. Voting is a choice – a conscious, political, voluntary participation. If people don’t want to vote – that’s their decision. Choice is freedom. So forcing what should be a choice upon people contradicts the purpose of a democracy – freedom and choice.
This new voting system would be like the death penalty for attempted suicide – in essence, while they are supposedly trying to bring back democracy, they are actually destroying it. It is a political paradox.
Like fucking for virginity, these radical changes will be futile and stupid. That is what this new voting system is like. The traditional voting system works because people who want change choose to vote. Those who aren’t bothered don’t. And the people who don’t vote are usually not politically opinionated, so would be a bad electorate to be made to vote – people who aren’t interested with the government or don’t like any of the candidates simply don’t want to vote – and that’s obvious. Making people vote is insulting to democracy.
Perhaps they should put more effort in to what the people want rather than going ahead with frankly retarded ideas like this without asking for the People’s views on it. The People giving their views is democratic and is what should separate our country from dictatorships in which the government makes unwanted and unnecessary changes.
I oppose this new plan. It’s not realistic and it’s definitely not democratic. VOTING IS VOLUNTARY.
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March 15, 2008 at 1:37 pm
· Filed under Journal typed things, Misc. Poems, Politics, society ·Tagged alone, collectivism, culture, demographic, hide, life, normal, notebook, paradigm, paranoia, privacy, sectarian, seperate, stereotype, system, world, youth
Telling my life
Through blue and white.
The pages and the lines
Of everything I strive to hide.
The workings of a fucked-up system,
Makes me into a monster
And shapes the mind.
I tell you everything.
There’s no lies.
Not living for the stereotypes that
I despise.
This culture hates our youth.
We’re not just another demographic,
We’re people who’ve had enough.
So open me up
Read my code,
The cryptic trails of
These troubled souls.
Always confusion,
Questions never answered
To make us into monsters,
You must shape the mind.
Allegiance won’t be pledged
To psychosis anymore.
My feelings are laid upon a map
But life’s directions remain obscure
We have fractured paradigms,
Of what is normal.
We stand and waste our time,
Just as messed up as before.
Paranoia becomes acceptable,
And fear becomes the truth,
It’s not the kind of world in which
I want to spend my youth.
It’s sectarian collectivism,
Taken to extremes,
They say we’re in it together,
But we’re alone as human-beings.
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January 19, 2008 at 7:48 pm
· Filed under Random Rants ·Tagged education, feudal, learning, serf, system
Feudal education system
I want to leave school
Because I want to have an education.
Schools are prisons of decadence
Chambers of coercion
No freedom
Compulsary obedience to illegitimate authority
Learning how to be controlled
Is difficult.
Which is why it takes so long.
Brainwashing takes place over many years.
Exploiting our deepest fears for profit and power.
Come and spy on me!
Come and treat us indecently!
Come and show us this democracy
That everyone speaks of
Conform or you’ll be kicked out!
Opinion? You’re following our rules now.
No speaking out, no standing up.
If this is education, then it sucks!
Learning is for infidels.
No curiosity here
Just methodology books,
On how to live your life,
Our way.
If you don’t like it,
Go away!
This, is therefore why,
I hate school.
And the reason why most teenagers, despise
this euphemism, ’school’.
School is in fact training for your life as a serf
Under a feudal lord
I want to leave school, because my mind cannot be chained.
My mind is free
My mind, cannot conform.
My mind is rebellious, creative, curious, inquisitive, not bound by orthodoxy, not chained down by laws, not hijacked by thought control.
I am free, therefore I cannot function in a localized police state.
I cannot marginalize the fact that I am forced to attempt temporary prison.
They can hold me no longer.
I want to learn.
I want to succeed
Therefore,
I am leaving school.
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