There is an election! Wow that crept up on us all. What has happened in the intervening years….well apparently a lot…… of austerity. Which is political code for paying for other people’s mistakes. It looks like we are going to have to eat a lot more austerity pie before it gets any better. I was watching a TV report and the only comparison they showed between different parties was to show which one reduced the national debt by more, as if that is the only measure by which a party’s economic theory should be judged! All the time they are paying down the debt something is being cut……just so you know.

The problem with that perspective is there is another side, one that is not about economics, one that is about people, you know the people who vote and pay taxes, there is loads of us, we don’t really have to listen to what politicians say, we could just do what we want. The politicians will tell us that this election is about the economy, or security (for another post no doubt), it’s not, it is about us……people, and the decisions we want to make about our lives and the world / country in which we want to live in.

We are faced with essentially 2 choices, a cooperative society or a competitive one. I don’t believe one should exclude the other, but they are presented in such a way so as to make us believe that they cannot coexist.

I was inspired to write this (who knows whether it will last) by something I saw on social media, see below……

First of all it made me mad, because I see many politicians and media outlets doing exactly this kind of stereotyping and conditioning. Wealthy people are seen as good and poor people seen as bad. I am concerned by this idea that poverty is some kind of choice and by not avoiding it, you are just not trying hard enough. I am also concerned by the idea that I do nothing, we do nothing to stop people’s struggle. We might think we are kind and considerate, but honestly what do we actually do?

Then it made me sad because I see a whole generation of people growing up believing this to be the case, and chasing Pop Idol like fame and materialism, in effect succumbing to the idea that good means wealth. That a good life can only be attained through an Instagram account with 2 million followers. I like money, who doesn’t, but I am old enough now to know that there is no correlation between being good and being wealthy, if anything in my experience it is the opposite.

Then it led me here. So here I am talking about All That I Hold Dear, to no one in particular about whatever I think will help. No real plan, but plenty to say and plenty of agenda.

I decided to do this……(whatever this is) until I could figure out exactly what to do to change my world, as I am through with changing myself. My initial idea was to become a comedian, a sexual athlete, a moderate drug addict and then a movie star to create a platform for myself and deliver anarchic perspectives on how the system could be challenged, but someone beat me to it.