Politically bitter...

[whitereflection]

I am finding myself extremely angry, bitter, and cynical today about things political and governmental. Three times now I've tried to write it out and discuss it, and three times I've just given up. I'm simply crappy at expressing myself about those issues. Suffice to say though, that in the end, it's like a sense of overwhelming dispair--it ain't ever getting better, no matter how much we do or how hard we try. The majority really can't fight against the few actually controlling the wealth and power--and the minority truly can't do anything when those few have brainwashed the majority into being mindless sheep and parrots. Guess that's all I'll say on that, because I just can't put it all into the right words.

It just reminds me of how I always wanted to live in Canada when I was younger. I may keep that in the back of my mind as the years go on.

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I keep trying to forget about all the above, and focus on fun stuff. Like Terry Pratchett's newest book, Night Watch (Nix, have you gotten this yet?). I have to admit, I don't think it's his best, but it's still incredibly enjoyable, and I devoured it in about four hours. ^^ One of my favorite quotes:

'A certain realization dawned on him.
"Oh," he said.
YES, said Death.
"Not even time to finish my cake?"
NO. THERE IS NO MORE TIME, EVEN FOR CAKE. FOR YOU, THE CAKE IS OVER. YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE.'

XD I need to use this in a .sig file somewhere.

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[mintaka00.livejournal.com]

You know, it may seem obvious, but one of my favorites is his collaboration to make Good Omens. Love that book, the delicious, sarcastic irony of it.

Eastern Canada, at least in the southern parts, really isn't very different from where I'm living now. And technically I've got Canadian blood in me ~listens to the gasps all around~ My maternal Grandmother is Canadian, though Irish by blood. So I could call New Brunswick home....

I think what I love the most *MUCH sarcasm* is how the freaking national press is so OWNED, the whores, and they nicely tell the stories that suit particular agendas with much fan fair and drama, and even more nicely completely ignore the stuff that we the people should really know the freak about. Though I guess I can blame we the people just as equally for being the lazy, selfish, sit on our fermenting...

'K, I'm way too young to be this bitter. Right? Sounds like the same theme that started this. Please tell me I'm still too young to be this bitter. Because the last few days I've been noticing more and more grey...

Damn, I'm ranting about politics again. ^^

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[whitereflection.livejournal.com]

That one's a favorite of mine, too--it was either the first I read from him, or near the first. I think I originally noticed Good Omens because I was a Neil Gaiman fan (can't help it--we were all Sandman junkies in college :) )

I understand, though--I'm even more down about the media and the press than I was previously. I've always known the papers and tv news seem just to exist one party line or another (though for all the rants about 'liberal media', it seems biased conservative more often than not). But in that movie that I've mentioned far too often lately, Moore also showed a major difference between our media (in this case, tv news) and Canadian--pulling examples from our news shows, it was all murder, murder, murder, violent crime, fear, etc. And most often making a very big emphasis on when perpetrators or suspects were a racial minority--but looking at Canadian news...they would actually discuss other things. Yes, if there was a violent crime, it would get mentioned, but that wasn't the *only* thing they ever talked about--neither was the next newest thing to be frightened of the next thing that was going to somehow hurt/kill you. Their news doesn't seem to focus on just death/hate/violence/fear/it's out to get you like our news does.

And I do suppose we can blame 'we the people'...for having no attention span to hear real news, and just wanting to hear sound bites, opinions already prechewed and digested and ready to be parroted, and in general being unwilling to think for themselves. And for being the type that want sensationalism, the ugly, dirty parts of life, wanting to see blood, guts, gore, whatnot, and being bored and not watching if they don't show stuff like that. I suppose the media does follow supply-demand, and offers what they feel will get them ratings, because they'd flop if they didn't. It's kind of a sad rock-and-a-hard-place situation. It's like both groups have to be changed/fixed at once for it to work.

And yeah, you are too young to be this bitter--I know *I'm* too young to be this bitter. I've been a political cynic since I was in high school. Even then I had no faith in the system--I may have joked about it, but it was what I truly believed, and still do. I've tried to convince myself otherwise, but obviously have never fully succeeded.

*hugs* But you wanna know something? Friend of mine has had grey since high school, and James has a bunch of it, too. Can't tell on me, since I'm blonde, but I've noticed I'm getting crows feet by my eyes, and some major lines underneath them--which really kind of blew me away, since I didn't expect that sort of thing for another few years yet. ^^;; Basically, we are young, and will be for a long time yet--but things the way they are out there sap a person's energy, make you so drained that it feels like you're decades older. The weight of the anger and helplessness we feel makes us feel old before our time. It's yet another thing to fight, I guess.

Though at least I've got my Mom to look at on that front--she will never truly grow up, will never truly grow out of the hippy she was. I think that's where I get a bit of my social conscience and my beliefs in fighting for the underdog from--another thing I could learn from her though, is to always be willing to say "Hey, this is *wrong*", no matter how tired a person is, no matter their age or how bad their health is.

Oy, I really ramble. Gomen. ^^;; *hugs*l