oh, politics

I'm not sure why I stay up this late.

I miss the sunshine.

Anyway, today is election day.

I bet anyone who has a blog who lives in the U.S.(and probably outside the U.S. if they're interested) will be talking about today's outcome.

I can't say I'm a huge advocate for either candidate, and it doesn't look like I'll be voting. I got my registration form back in the mail, telling me that I forgot a section. It's a little too late now. I haven't gotten any confirmation in the mail about it or anything.*

I think that if Obama gets elected, things will change. Oh yes, has he preached about his change. I'm not sure if this change will be the change we need, or the change we were looking for, but I do think that we need to stray off of the path we've been traveling for the past few decades and head somewhere new.

If McCain gets elected, I don't think we'll have much change. Me, I'm a person who can't handle having the same thing happen to me every day. I need variation. I don't like monotony, at all. I don't know if he can make our dollar stronger, and I don't know if he'll even live to serve out his term. And to have a crazy book-banning fundamentalist soccer mom for a president isn't exactly what I'd call a "good change". Not really much of a change though, to be honest. Most politicians are the same.


I don't like politics. I don't like getting involved, or talking about it. Yet somehow it always ends up being talked about at the Thanksgiving table. Do you know why?

People are so stubborn about their opinions. They think that they've got it all figured out, and everyone else just doesn't get it. Most people are so righteous, and think they're doing everyone else a favor by telling them to get a grip and listen to them. They've got valid sources telling them that they're right, and telling them that anyone else who is wrong is against you and shouldn't be trusted. And don't eat the cranberry sauce, it's been tampered with.

People are so eager to show other people things they 'know'. Knowledge is a 'gift' and the more you have of this knowledge, the more respected you are in society.

All knowledge is, really, is the collection of different memorizations and thoughts, maybe a little processing(although I doubt it's your own), and all you have to do is keep it nice and safe inside your brain, until it proves to be useful in a conversation with your family or some conservative/liberal you happen to meet in a cafe. Your ego(and everyone has one) is telling you to prove to everyone how superior you are to them, just because you were able to process a bit of information and conveniently remember it. It sounds a bit silly when put that way, doesn't it?

People let their egos take over their brains. Egos should be demolished. They do nothing but hurt you. Getting to the top of the ladder, be it socially or economically, is not what it's all about. It's about realizing that your brain is just a brain, you're a small thing with a beating little heart sitting on a tiny little planet in the middle of nowhere. You don't have control over other peoples thoughts or actions. You can't make people feel bad. Sometimes your ego likes to think that it has control over others, but it really doesn't. It's just a shame that other peoples egos get in the way, and act in a reverse manner, and start to feel inferior to the larger ego. Thus feeding both of them, and sending both spiraling into a vortex of hell. Seriously. Welcome to Earth.

Anyway.

Politics doesn't matter. I wish there weren't borderlines between countries. I wish our egos didn't exist. If they didn't exist, man wouldn't feel the need to have control over others, thus eliminating government and the like. If egos didn't exist, we would be able to live like fish do. Or dogs. Or rabbits.

Sometimes I like being able to think and do things that rabbits and dogs can't do. That's what makes humans special. I like the good aspect of having a mind that can work things out and be able to make choices. But when bad stuff starts to cook up in there, and when you start feeling superior/inferior to others, that's when it starts to get screwed up, and everything has gone to waste.

I think it's fun learning. Even if we are insignificant beings, why not make the best out of our so-called 'lives'. Why not just try to have fun while we can, and get along with each other, and read books and paint pictures and have a silly laugh, and fall in love, and make run-on sentences without punishment.

Why not!

Unfortunately not everyone could understand it. And I'm not forcing you to understand this, Or agree with me.

After all, this is my ego speaking.


I hope the population is pleased with it's decision. If not, I hope something happens. Come on, life's been too boring lately. You gotta give me something here.

*Edit: It turns out that I AM registered to vote, and will be casting my ballot for Gloria La Riva, the Libertarian Socialist candidate. We need summa that.**

** I'm just kidding. I'm voting for Obama. Just because everyone else is and I'd rather support him than a grandpa with a VP who is completely insane.