Waxing Philisophic...
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After a decade of reading philosophy, agonizing over world events, raging at government, and whatever, here are the conclusions I've come to:
1 - Government will never represent you deliberately. The only way you'll be represented is if your beliefs happen to parallel the beliefs of whoever's paying for the election.
2 - You can never do anything of any consequence on a global scale. Ever. For example, go to Ethiopia and vaccinate orpahns for a year. Oops, you forgot about the 800, 000 africans who got killed that year in civil war. Oops, you forgot about the Middle East getting the shit kicked out of them by us for using the weapons we sold them (using the money we loaned them).
3 - Relax into your insignificance. It's here to stay.
4 - Forget art. It's about as useful as tits on a bull
5 - Art is for people who have enough money to be non political. Earn yourself a billion, THEN try and give a shit about local government. THEN buy some art. THEN be happy.
6 - If you want to be creative, that's fine, but it doesn't mean anything. Do you honestly think that, in the long run, good design has ever made the world a better place. I'm struggling to think of an example.
7 - Like the man said, if nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. I'm not sure I understand that, but I think it means that if you can take care of the people around you, that's about as much as you can do. If you can do that, and everyone else can do that, then everyone will be, if not empowered, at least happy.