in a world of horror stories...
i dont know about anyone else. but im finding it so depressing to turn on the radio/tv these days... the whole world seems to be going to hell. i find it so hard to comprehend evey night when you turn on the news, how many people have died in the world in the last 24 hours that gets reported! did you know that thousands of children die every HOUR from malnutrition, dihorhea, and malaria in thirdworld countries? thats shocking.
and the government of our beautiful and benevolant country is spending BILLIONS of dollars on bigger and better toys to threaten our neighbours with, oh im sorry - 'improve security in our area' - i just don't get it.
how can governments fight, kill, maim and detain? because they divert our attention with things like 'oh NO mark latham may have smoked pot when he was young', or 'the greens are all going to make us vegetarian and kill our farming trade'. and the scariest thing is that people ARE being distracted by this.
Czech writer Milan Kundera once wrote: "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
and we have to remember.. the victims of a war our government took us into last year... the man who has spent 7 years in detention because he has no papers because his house and entire family burned while he was tortured before he escaped to benevolant beautiful australia.... the 218 children in detention centres around the country... the increadible amount of people inaustrlia living below the poverty line.. and what the government has done to the country.
im not saying latham is going to be any better than howard if he gets in... maybe its just time howard was shifted off his lazy ass... complacency is a dangerous thing. im just disollusioned with the whole thing.
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats, We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. - Helen Keller
but change isnt going to come from the top is it? and there are just too many people who don't bother changing the world around them...
THE 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli expressed the sentiment: "If you want to change the world, prepare to feel the full force of the reaction against you from those that have the most to lose."
so i do apologise for that rant... here are a couple of feel good/crazy stories...
A feel good story
And just in case you thought elections and government was all serious.. check this out... note that in the by-election the candidate beat all the independents!
in peace, love and sisterhood