The VP debates are tonight. I don’t know if I will watch. The debates leave me in such an aggravated state I don’t think if it is worth the annoyance. Any way, over the next week, which ever side is down will try to spin it. I can’t believe that this late in the election season people will switch their vote on the basis of debate charisma.
What can we do (other than cast our vote) – we are really powerless on the outcome. One person one vote really doesn't elect, because the way the system is set up a President can win the popular vote and lose the election…The founding fathers ( I hate that phrase) felt that the average man was not knowledgeable enough to be trusted to vote his own best interest so they came up with the electoral college – they have been proven right on the first assumption, but the manipulated system of the electoral college is little better.
Humans
are pack animals, or cult animals, or mob animals – which ever you prefer…we
need to belong to a group…we need to identify with a group…and groups can be
manipulated by charismatic alpha males. It doesn't matter if the group is a clan, a religion, a race, a party, a state or a
nation. The greater good usually turns out to be the
grater bad for some sub section – minority without power. Group power throughout history has always
been destructive to the human race in general – wars, genocide, suppression, the
inquisition: all manners of atrocities against our own kind are committed by
people in power manipulating their group.
These people who manipulate are themselves part of a group - and their
agenda is personal power and wealth. This election is a macrocosm of that premise.
There
is no answer; there are too many people in the world to be able to live an independent
libertarian life; and the need for group identity often trumps our best interest. It is not our nature to
be concerned beyond our own group and never will be – we are the base human
animal: we will interact only with the group of our identity, and we can not
change.
With the world population
doubling every forty years we are bound to come into more and more conflict for
energy, food, and land space. The idea that
our group might cooperate with all other people in the world – other groups,
for the greater good of humanity is a pipe dream. Not a
great proposition to look forward to (never end a sentence with a preposition –
fuck it, rules (like spelling) are meant to be bent as long as the
understanding is clear.)
I want to belong to the group that looks out for me - but at what cost?
the Ol'Buzzard
