There’s a lot of talk about Big Government in the media these days. Health care, war, education, economic protection, and of course, how all of it is either good or bad. I’ve heard the word ‘communist‘ used more readily and fluently (and fraudulently) than any year post Cold-War Cool-Off, the ideas of Socialism, Democracy, Capitalism and Freedom hacked to pieces and represented by all sides of every debate, and have seen irony of ironies as people argue, protest and wage rage-fuelled wars against the very ideas they claim to uphold. What a load of epic bullshit. And while it is easy to pick on the Right Wingers of the World right now due to the collapse of the economic stability they crave as a reason to toss off the shackles of oppressive rule (imagined or otherwise), this is something we are all guilty of doing. Of complaining about. At one time or another, we have all bitched about someone with authority getting in our business, and we think it would be better if they didn’t. Well, I’m sorry people, but as a collective species, right and left, up or down, vertical or horizontal, none of us have any fucking right to complain, because we all need our babysitter.
This is how it is, and how it will continue to be long after your bones are dust and your flesh is scattered to the wind. You, me, and nearly every other human being on this tiny speck of blue-and-green in the infinite universe all are guilty of one or more of the following:
- a) Being Lazy
- b) Being Stupid
- c) Being Selfish
We complain, often in the same day, about how the people in Power are too intrusive, and how they never get anything done. We are greedy, selfish, lazy and randomly biased whenever it suits us, and when we think we are right, we’ll stop at nothing to try to prove it to others!
- We want the Government to stay out of Healthcare! (and still provide mobilization against natural disasters and pandemics!)
- We want the Government to give us our Freedom of Religion! (and put a stop to those gay marriages the Bible says is wrong!)
- We want the Government to stay out of our Lives! (and protect us from everyone else Living around us!)
- We want the Government to worry about our own Country First! (and still represent us with power on the World Stage)
- We want to be Treated with Fairness, Dignity and Respect! (and acknowledged as the Best and Superior!)
- We want the Media to stop being Biased! (and still Deliver exactly what I Want To Hear)
- We want Schools to stop teaching our children all the Things we don’t Agree With! (and still Teach them everything us Parents are too Inconvenienced to teach)
- We want Free Trade with whoever we Desire! (and rules and protections to protect me from buying something dangerous or from a scam-artist!)
- We want Free Speech! (and for those damn people to be shot and killed for saying such terrible things about me!)
- We want Freedom to Move and Immigrate! (and laws to keep my job safe from Immigrants!)
- We want Everything Delivered To Us on a Silver Platter! (and we don’t want to fit the bill)
Well, ladies and gentlemen, you’re going to have to stop acting like spoiled babies if you ever want to get rid of your babysitters. They can be a Democratically Elected Government to 99% of the population, and still be a Nazi Tyrant to the 1% who didn’t vote for them. You could be ruled with an iron fist by an Empire, Oppressed by the Economic Conditions of your Generation, or abused by a backwards shit God-King, and until you stop wanting a small part of your life to be controlled by these people, you will always be ruled. You will always be given to others. Your votes will be bought and traded by lobbyists who shuffle more money in one day than some of you will touch in your entire lifetime. Your perceptions will still be delivered to you in the daily newspaper, or blasted at you over the TV with 5 minute commercial breaks every 10 minutes.
You will continue to be baby-sat until you are ready to take responsibility for your own actions.
You voted. You sat there. You watched. You read. You heard. You rested. You resisted. You were scared and you were content to let others do the dirty work. If you’re not happy with the world around you, then maybe you should own up to it and start doing something about it. But, in this world, where a trillion dollars is spent on an Election, and only a billion is spent on Education, you have no right to complain. In this world, where you would gladly give up your freedom for security, you have no right to complain. In this world, where you would gladly give up your voice for the perception of being heard, you have no right to complain. In this world, where 50 minutes of every News Hour is spent on documenting the downward spiral of singers and actors into drugs and alcohol, and only 10 minutes documents the daily real holocausts happening to your fellow human beings on the same bloody planet, you have abso-fuckin‘-utely no goddamn right to complain.
So go attend your rally against public health, or your Democratically protected Protest against the Fairly Elected. Go on the internet and try to convert some followers by calling everyone a heathen, and demand protection when you wouldn’t give it yourself. Demand your rights as you auction your freedoms. Condemn Big Brother, then crawl under His Cloak when you shiver in the cold. But don’t you dare say it’s not at least partially your fault. Don’t you dare say you don’t like having that little bit of your life controlled so you don’t have to. Having that bit of effort taken care of so you can relax. Having the responsibility for the coming shit-storm shifted from you to someone nameless and perfectly blamable. Don’t you dare cuddle up to the teet of Society, then whine and complain when you’re addressed and commanded around like a baby.
The Babysitter’s on her way over right now. The only difference between your Right and Left wings are which shade of lipstick she wears when she shows up, and she’s here until she’s not needed anymore by your own decree.
She’s not planning on retirement anytime soon.
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