History Repeats Itself

Every day news is shoved into your skull. News flashes, breaking stories – yet only the names seem to change. It seems that not a day goes by without someone getting arrested for selling or using drugs. Someone’s picked up for DUI. Some political figure does something bad; or good, but then it’s something that everyday people do such as read to kids in a school. And that’s a bit messed up in itself: teacher reads stories to kids – not news; politician seeking election reads to kids – makes front page of national news.

Not even the “unexpected” news such as earthquakes, storms, or other nature-based disasters are that different. Almost every time people are left homeless, hundreds to thousands die, people’s pets die while some are reunited with their families. A disaster area’s declared. State, federal, and in some cases international governments step in to help. Red Cross and other agencies show up and setup tents and start the search and rescue. Media shows up with cameras to record the horrific footage (for live coverage), while interviewing people about how bad it really is. Many people donate time or money to help out. Cleanup crews show up days, weeks, or months later. Things are restored. Life returns to “normal”.

But it’s all the same, just different names and places. Not that it isn’t a horrible tragedy but it’s still the same as far as news and actions.

And it seems that no matter what happens, thanks primarily to news agencies I’d bet, whatever agency that goes in to help always screws up something that causes people to demand justice. Not saying in some instances they’re right, that some place truly screwed up, but what about all the other instances where they did well! Think of it like this: an organization helps out ten thousand people and gets them completely resettled and back to “normal”, five hundred people get screwed over for one reason or another, do you ever hear about the good the place did?
In the end, it’s the same. Same news day in and out. Same things happen, people don’t learn from the past mistakes, and it keeps on repeating. It makes one wonder, where is the ultimate failure – the individuals, or society?

Picture the society as a business, and the individuals as the employees. As a whole, the business can do many good things, or many bad things. But in order for things to take place, the employees have to do something. If an employee discovers a part they have is defective, but they say nothing, the company releases a defective product. In that case, it’s the employee, not the company, that’s at fault. But if the company knows the part is defective, and they use it anyway, it’s the company that’s at fault – but really, it’s not the “company” so much as it is the “group of employees that passed the motion to use the defective part” that’s to blame. So it’s still an employee, or employees, that are to blame.

Same type of thing for all other news material: someone knows there’s a problem, they either speak up and are ignored, or don’t speak up at all – no one learns, history repeats itself.

Think of it like this: A parent knows their child is using meth. They try to get help for the child, which doesn’t involve the police, and the child fights back. The child keeps on using meth and ends up robbing or hurting someone to get their fix. Now, it’s entirely the child that’s to blame – but the parents could’ve done more to prevent it. Or think about politicians, if you have a homosexual or bisexual politician roaming around demanding rules to ban homosexuality or such – someone should call them out on it. Or if the politician’s taking bribes from a company, that they just happen to pass legislation to help out the company, someone should say something. If a police officer’s dealing drugs, someone should report them.

Easier said than done for some, after all who’d want to report a gang murder when the members live in your apartment – but the point is still valid. Whenever you see something on the news, there’s someone (sometimes a group) that isn’t surprised. They’re the ones that think “took that long to happen?” and similar. But the better question should be this: if they knew it’d happen, actually knew, why didn’t they do something to stop it.

The revolution is now

It's time. Time for everyone to band together as one to force the governments of the world to do what's best for the people. Time for people to stop complaining about what the evil government is doing, and actually do something about it.

Especially in the United States. Even our constitution allows the people to force the government to change, if they don't do what's in the best interest of the people.

But it'll be a peaceful revolution. With injuries being along the lines of paper cuts. Peaceful, legal protests throughout the country. It doesn’t even matter if people are on different sides of the issues.

The government should do what's best for people as a whole. It should give sentences for murder, robbery, rape, personal injuries and such. But it shouldn't go around telling people how and with whom they should be intimate. The government should build roads, housing, schools, and other public works to provide everything the people needs. Just think how many hours/months/years have been spent dealing with same-sex marriage; and how many are spent trying to improve the roads, decrease pollution, and just otherwise making the country safer.

Don't know about you all, but if there was a rapist running through the town killing and raping because the police couldn't get funding to stop him or her -- just because the politicians spent weeks trying to ban gay marriage instead of getting funding to the police; someone sure has priorities screwed up.

When people who truly can't work due to a disability or disease, such as a truck driver that can't get a CDL license because of diabetes, they have to wait years before they could get approved ---- yet someone who fakes the severity of an injury and says "I can't work!" yet goes around remolding houses, climbing ladders to put on new roofs, and just otherwise doing hard labor on a weekly bases can get disability within a few weeks. Then the same agencies don't seem to have enough people to police these defrauders even when reported! Because well, they can't get funding.

But at least we know the politicians have more than enough time to campaign and get more and more funds to run for office. And they have more than enough time to maintain church-based family values, in laws at least, who knows how many have a few mistresses on the side.

Let's not stop there, it's even important to ban all these bad drugs too -- like that's really doing a good job. New illegal highs are popping up faster than they can pass laws to ban them. Ever wonder why people take all these drugs? Because life itself sucks so much, they need an escape! Want to stop illegal drug use, try to actually make life worth living.

How many people really think a "good life" means that in a 168 hour week, 40 hours for work, 56 hours for sleep, and about 20 hours to get ready for work with a commute should be required by two people (sometimes 3 or 4) just to afford housing, food and utilities? Know how much time that leaves to "enjoy" the week? 52 hours. Of course that's assuming you don't eat, go to the bathroom, have any household chores, etc. So let's take off another 10 hours for that. 42 hours. Wow. That's sure with living for isn't it? Under 2 full days you can actually relax. Oh, but wait, if you've got kids -- there goes about 14 hours a week, so you've only got about 28 hours to "relax", and about 140 hours of work and sleep. Toss in the "if you get injured, and you're homeless" that many people fall into, and it's no wonder there's so many drugs for depression, and people just using drugs or alcohol!

But what does the government do about these things? Pass laws to make drugs illegal, and spend millions to stop drug trafficking, and making sure "family value" laws are passed. You know, things that don't do any good at all.

But that isn't entirely true, they are good for one thing: keeping the people from thinking about things other than what's the real problem. Keep people thinking that some drug-addict homosexual will convert your kid, and you'll think popping a dozen pills a week to cope with the few waking hours before you pass out isn't that bad.

Politicians are the new cons. They know just what to say and when to say it. Spin things around so fast by the time you realize what's hit you, they've maxed out their office term.

So stay tuned, for the revolution is near, and the blueprint will be posted. Tell your friends -- the government will do for the people, not for themselves.

The new age is upon us.