My feet thunder against the
ground. Anger glows from my wide open eyes. My face is twisted into a
mask of the purest of hate and frustration. This appearance of almost
rabid frenzy culminates as I sprint towards my destination. As my
shoes touch these stones that form the national centre of power my
transformation is compete. I enter a state of Viking-like
berserkergang and every muscle in my body contracts as my loathing of
this place turns into a coarse and ferocious roar.
NUKADETKRAFÆDEMEVÆRENOK!
Sometimes I dream of things
like this. Mostly when I am barely awake and the news on the radio
remind me that mostly everything in this country is going in the
wrong direction. It fills me with a loathing of politicians and every
other public institution so strong that I am on the verge of storming
down to Christiansborg and screaming until I am dragged away or
worse.
The democratic tyrants,
elected fairly.
Concerned with our welfare
barely.
It's a circus of
sycophants
whose kind is the most
decadent.
Power like Hannibal’s
elephants,
used only to raze
the lives of strangers
in a xenophobic craze.
I just can't see modern
politics as anything else than powerful people using their power to
gain more power. It seems like power for the sake of power. Every
time the incompetent social democratic government do anything, I end
up seeing it as another desperate attempt at doing something popular;
getting a single win on the scoreboard. And right from the start it
looks like it's going to end horribly by crippling some part of the
system. Most days it seems like politics is just about doing populist
things for the sake of winning the next election in stead of doing
something that would actually help people.
And most of all, I don't see
any sort of empathy between politicians and the objects of their
power.
Take for example the recent
trouble with the school reform. I don't know the average age on
Christiansborg, but I know they didn't go to school yesterday. And it
seems so apathetic to take away the childhood of a generation by
making the mandatory school system a full-time occupation. It's just
not the way children should be raised, like something out of The
Stolen Spring by Hans Scherfig.
They should have time to
play. To make friends and to enjoy their young lives.
But
I don't want to go into that specific case. My point is much more
general; that the ruling elite of the country is more concerned with
being re-elected than with the people they are supposed to take care
of. That is at least the impression that I get mostly. This is also
seen in the way politicians talk about some of the poorest in our
society, the unoccupied. They are time and time again being denounced
as lazy for not having a job. I can't understand that way of seeing
other living, acting and loving human beings as simply lazy and
unwilling to participate in Our Great Society. And what makes this
much more incredible, is that we have just experienced an
economical recession.
“In
economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction, a general
slowdown in economic activity.”
-Wikipedia
article on Recession
When
looking at the above definition, it seems to be a very obvious
consequence of a recession
that there will be a certain degree of unemployment. So how can
politicians blame people for not having jobs that simply don't exist?
And that
is exactly the kind of apathy that I see everywhere in the current
debates.
I don't
want to go into some marxist pseudo-intellectual description of the
ruling classes and how they will always be apathetic towards the
proletariat. That kind of thinking is purely ideology and is only
true if you accept it as true. Like how everything looks like the
will of God if you chose that perception of reality. There are some
very good thoughts in socialism, but it is not a science.
The real
problem is that everything that is being done on a political level
seems to be argued for and sold to the people as grim necessities. We
must wage war in the Middle East, or there will be war in our
countries. We must institutionalize our children further if we wish
to avoid being economically overtaken by the Chinese. Stauning or
Chaos! But the reality is that there are lots of possibilities and
ways that we can avoid these scare stories and worst-case scenarios.
And the worst-case scenarios are often blown completely out of
proportions, crafting a public illusion of being close to genocide
and slavery. What we in the western world need is not optimism, but
simply realism; to put things into perspective. I believe it wouldn't
be too wrong to say that for our part of the world, it is not famine
and destruction that the future brings us. And I think that we need
to think more clearly and avoid the hysteria that the media so easily
generates. That way, we would also be more likely to help the parts
of the world that actually has to deal with death, famine, pestilence
and war.
But
some days. Just some days.
It
seems like no-one is on the good side. Like some mass psychosis is
going on. Nobody is thinking
rationally. And we put these people in charge. It just feels so...
disillusioning. And there
doesn’t seem to be any
obvious solution. The only choice left is how we deal with it. Accept
or loathing.
The
actual options at the next election, doesn't seem much like a choice
at all. More like
Plague
or cholera.
Right-wing
or left-wing.
Liberalism
or social democracy.
The
people I don't agree with at all or a bunch of incompetent fools.
How is
this a choice? It seems more like something Kirkegaard would have
written.
“Marry,
and you will regret it; don't marry, you will also regret it; marry
or don't marry, you will regret it either way.“
-Søren
Kirkegaard. Either/Or: An Ecstatic Discourse
Vote
Helle Thorning, and you will regret it...
I'm
simply not going to vote in the next election. That way, I'll also
have the right to complain about politics the following four years.
But that conclusion is just so depressing. Like coming to terms with
a tragedy. A final surrender. I really wish someone would convince me
that there is hope for us. But who can do that? Who
can point the way?
Shit...
This really ended on a flat note and I hate it. But how else can I
describe my perception of current politics? One day I'm about to
declare a bloody revolution and the other I'm too tired of the shit
to even look at the news much less think about them. Some days it
just feels like the entire world has gone insane. And to be perfectly
clear; I don't think a revolution or riots would do much more than
get people hurt and things destroyed. Things like that is just as
brutal and inhumane as war. It is an absolutely last resort. And I
don't think we're there yet. We aren't even close to moving towards
that. But Shakespeares Marcellus was right about the State of
Denmark. And he still is.