Warning: Politics

[meiface]

NB: Post is text heavy, feel free to apply &format=lightSo I couldn't sleep last night because I was busy making lists in my head of what groceries I'd buy and what food I could make out of said groceries: the things that occupy me late at night. (Protip: Don't do this. It makes you hungry. In the middle of the night

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[osoreranai]

(Not at all. I mean, it doesn't sound worse than saying you're going to be a great novelist, so, there's that).

I definitely see where you're coming from. It's not a fair fight, and it's not a good fight, but if you don't step in the ring and put 'em up, who'll do it for us? I see that. And I'm not trying to be like some kind of high-minded slacker, rationalizing inactivity as a cover for arrogance. The internet's got enough of those already.

It's just. I struggle to attempt to articulate this sentiment, so if I do poorly I beg your pardon.

We have problems. We have deep problems in this country. And for all the noise that we hear from on high, at the end of the day the situation is not truly changed. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Babies are born, and no one is there to rear them. Men go mad and shoot each other in theaters. Women are sold into slavery on the Internet.

How do you fight this? Some would say that you should go to the government for these issues and more - but there is no unified vision to define solutions. We can't make up our minds whether or not the rich are heroes or villains, whether the poor are oppressed or deserving. We can't figure out if we need less babies or more parents; if we need less guns or more training; if sexuality should be on sale or not.

We, who have limited time on this earth, are generally presented with one of two choices: we either do nothing and let others walk over us, or we throw ourselves at each other in the ring over and over again. My money and voice goes to a cause, only to negate someone who feels just as strongly in the other direction as me; both of our voices are then drowned out as a company throws a thousand times our strength in a certain direction and we get caught up in the undertow.

I simply believe that my limited time, resources, and will are better spent acting in favor of the causes I champion, buying food for the homeless, talking with people and hearing their stories, and trying to point to something better. Because it's as you say: we only have one life here to live. We all have to die, and we all have to live with ourselves until then. I don't want to live with the knowledge that I could have done more.

Hopefully it's clear that you don't have to badger me into caring. :)