Say Anything Blog

There is a presidential election coming up, duh, that we’ve all been unfortunately fixated on for days and days. The candidates, all of them, have been busy phishing, trying us out, testing the water, licking their fingers and turning to the wind, lying, telling the truth, whining, dining, and so on. This time we’re down to two, as usual, neither of whom is that distinguishable from the other. They are liars, flip-floppers, demographic whores, cosmeticized empty suits being jiggled around by the various insidious forces hidden behind the curtain jiggling the strings, all of whom know what’s best for you before you do.
There is lots of blame handed around. Many of us pick up on lies, puff, falsities and run with it. The other guys do, why can’t it hurt our side? While it is understandable, there is so much puff out there it’s almost unavoidable, but there is a sense in which we can do better. Hunter Thompson advocated ‘gonzo journalism’, a form of journalism where the reporter refuses an attempt to purge the article of his presence. This form of journalism is now prevalent, but unfortunately so many of us prefer all of our preformed, theoretical truths that we latch onto whichever form of it agrees with our sensibilities and advocate the underlying bias as fact, pointing to the distortions on the other side, and neglecting the gonzo aspects of our own sited sources, news articles, slander, and whathaveyou. From all sides there is a call for civil discourse. It is only a masked way of ruling out and stigmatizing those views which differ from our own. This is true of both parties, the MSM, the blogs, and everyone else commenting on the situation. We are all gonzo, but we’ve missed the 2nd order reflection need to appreciate it.
And what about being asked to step outside of our preformed theory? What of being asked to be responsive to empirical evidence? Again, there is no clarification we can garner, without work we are mostly unwilling to do, things we are unwilling to read. We come to the plate with a filter we were knitted as younguns, only able to consume foods that are square and fit through the square hole.
We are explained the seriousness, told our opinions are valued, and lied to… all the time, from all sides of the political fray. The people in the city hate the people in the country, and conduct themselves with little care or thought, the people in the country hate the people in the city, and so on. Believe it or not, in sparsely populated areas, people can conduct government for themselves. This truism is neglected. It is dangerous. Look around to your state governments and ask how many give the people on the ground real control over their own situation? Hardly any. Those that do are busy wrenching the power from the localities. And we see the Fed doing the same. This is a bipartisan issue. It is of grave importance and strikes right to the heart of what this whole wonderful experiment of a country is about.
The cities are different. The people feel powerless to affect their own situation, let alone those of others. Daily life is intermeshed with so many other parties that the reciprocal dichotomy is undeniable. Yet, in these large crowds, one’s power is diminished. Voting in a town of 10,000 and a city of 14,000,000 are inherently different. And so these differences need to be appreciated and acted on. If city folk which to wipe the arse of every last person as they feel powerless and ambivalent in the situation, let them. But let the localities do what they want. Period. Don’t bar them from doing things that don’t agree with your baggage, just advocate to be in more control of your own situation. That has nothing to do with Federal advocacy. Nothing at all.
And this election is dark, no matter who you are, when it comes to being able to self determine. The infrastructure is crumbling we are told. Unfortunately, by the time the infrastructure is rebuilt, unless it’s done locally, the Fed will have even more decisive blackmailing power. They come to states, make sweet offers, and eventually the state has the Fed’s extremity up its arse and the Fed is telling it when to breathe and when to buckle its seatbelt. Literally. They steal our money, mismanage it, and steal more. They do ‘projects’ for us, then steal more and more. Federal ‘projects’ are bad, they create a physical inroad.
Vote ‘none of the above’ in November. That’s all I can recommend. Don’t pay attention to the candidates. We deserve better and both of these candidates have laid bare the fact that they are willing to do a lot to get into office, anything really, and we know that neither one of them wants to empower the localities, to empower the people… in a bona fide manner. They sure do love to trick us into thinking things! Don’t let emotional or moral issues cloud your judgment. Structural issues come first, and they protect all of our abilities to self determine. That’s the check and balance we cannot loose. When we watch the talking heads, the nationally syndicated ‘private’ news that sits at the Feds toilet, licking and licking the stains… we do a grave disservice to ourselves. I extend that to any national news service. Investigative reporting is expensive. Businesses like it cheap.
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Go sit on the carpet and wait for scraps in Washington; I’m not paying you to figure anything out, just to repeat in step.
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Evil shit.