As a kid I never really got along with authority figures, in fact to this day I still don’t. I never clashed with the police or blatantly broke the rules , I just always questioned why others believed they had power over me or my actions. As a sometimes arrogant little kid this got me into trouble during school with my teachers, but I would usually apologize and everything would be forgiven. As a kid, your school and the authority figures within it, surrogate as your government. You do as they do with no questions asked and those who don’t get put in line. This system relies on a perpetual belief that the school and the government knowing what is best for you, but in reality they don’t. They put you on a “one size fits all” conveyor belt and spit you out to be an obedient member of society that questions nothing. They could care less about what is in your best interest, just what will give them more power. I want to talk about why the government does not have your best interest at heart and how you are deceived into playing their game of life. Take in mind much of this is a ramble so excuse me if I trail off a bit.
Breeding Sheep
There is little doubt that the point of the public education system is to breed workers that fit snugly into a role within an economy and for them to do that role for a lifetime. We’re taught to play by the rules, not to be disruptive and do everything that a teacher, the government or your boss tells you to without question. If we follow the rules, get good grades and a college degree we will be able to buy that nice house with a white picket fence, have a beautiful wife, 2.5 kids and a golden retriever. Most of all you will finally be able to achieve happiness, with all these things filling the holes in your life.
Yet as I look around me, I see no white picket fences and I definitely see no happy people, so where are they? This lie perpetuated by authority figures and people we should supposedly emulate is sickening. People end up throwing their lives away getting beaten down by the system only to realize at 50 that everything they were promised was a fallacy. People that played by the rules and did as they were told, got punished for it. All around us are the signs of this deception, yet we continue to believe it.
Distractions
In order to distract you from your unhappy life, you look to media, an industry that caters to the viewers yearning for something more. We find solace in that fact that our lives aren’t a complete mess, an idea backed by reality shows like “Intervention” and “My 600 Pound Life”. And yet we are also kept playing the game by the media building up this idea that we can all be rich and have whatever we want. We are pumped propaganda of the rich and famous through a digital IV so we continue to believe that one day we will be where they are if we just work hard enough. But the game is rigged and you and me aren’t on the winning side, if we were, we wouldn’t be into crypto.
On top of these show distractions, the news media is constantly egging on a war between classes so we are stuck blaming each other rather than holding the government accountable. Despite 4 news stations all being owned by one corporation they broadcast news differently and strengthen the current divide.
Politics
Politicians rally up support and split people against each other based on beliefs that are tiny in the grand scheme of things. They call themselves representatives of the people, yet both sides Republican and Democrat actively represent corporate interests that go directly against yours and mine. The illusion of democracy makes people feel like they have a say but when the politicians make deals in the shadows, accept millions in campaign funds for reelection, there can’t be a truly unbiased politician. People argue over facebook about which president will do more for the common man, but the reality is, these politicians don’t give a fuck about the common man. Politics is just another distraction to give you the illusion that you have a say.
Taxes
I believe taxes in small amounts to offer things like infrastructure and basic needs is a good thing, but our current tax system goes above and beyond exploitation. You spend your days doing mindless work, only to bring home an income so you can purchase or buy experiences that will make you happy and the government takes 30% for the privilege of being a slave. Instead of putting the money to proper use, they spend trillions upkeeping a massive amount of armed forces that do nothing but beat their chest at other nations. If they truly cared about their own people they would use the money to enrich their own people.
Absurd Amount Of Laws And Mass Imprisonment
The amount of laws in the past 50 years has skyrocketed to the point where you probably break a decent amount daily , unknowingly. The government pumps out ridiculous laws that dictate how people can live their day to day lives so everything has complete order. If you refuse to follow these laws you are thrown into an overcrowded privately funded prison that has no incentive to let you out. If you cant afford bail you will sit in a prison until your trial date which could be months to years depending on the case.
I know this post was a bit rambley, but I might go in depth further on some of these ideas in the future. I just wanted to put out a basic outline. I wanted to end with a quote from the “Game Of Thrones” book, “A Song Of Ice And Fire”, where one of the characters makes an observation of where power lies.
“In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me – who lives and who dies?”
If power lies with the men who carry swords, why do we pretend that kings hold the power? Power, he argues, is ephemeral, a shadow – “power lies where we think it lies.”
If we stop believing in the power that the government makes us believe it has, we can change current problems in our society. If people started to work together it can be cut down in size to a smidgen of what it is now. They government thinks we are sheep, but they should fear us.