YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE CHANGE The insanity rages on. The masses continue to be swayed by the illusion of politics as usual. All the candidates, as candidates will do, promise change. And the masses roar their approval with applause and cheers, totally oblivious to their own delusion. They don't see the forest for the trees. They fail to notice that, while their preferred darling is promising change, they are doing so within the context of the same old venue. I refer to the election process itself. That is what needs to change. We desperately need to rid ourselves of this insidious cult of personality. No single person is truly more qualified or "worthy" to hold an office than any other. Experience is irrelevant. Experience harks to a past. This is now. The much-vaunted "qualifications" offering is also irrelevant. (We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal.) The election process needs to change. Beware the magician's patter; he mesmerizes with words and confounds with tricks. Serving in a public office (from the highest to the lowest makes no difference) should be an obligation, a civic responsibility. It should in no way be a privilege of the rich. The rich continue to keep us in our places by conducting these elaborate highly expensive election campaigns, and we allow them to keep us in our places by participating. Nothing will truly change until we change this process. We must find a way to place everyone in positions of civic responsibility, no matter their economic station. Campaigning for public office needs to be outlawed, pronounced anathema. Future generations will look back on our time with the same wonder and incomprehension that we feel when we learn of the atrocities of the ancient Romans. We are virtually disenfranchised anyway. These elections do little more than split us down the middle. They incite divisiveness. If all men are truly created equal, then all men should be held equally responsible for the affairs of government, not just some men (the rich), but all men. But the masses feel a certain sense of security in these absurd political shenanigans of the rich, in much the same way that the common peoples of the past felt secure with their monarchs. Where are the monarchs today? At present, the masses can't handle the change. But one day, when we catch up with the technology, they will look back on this era and wonder why it took so long to put the rich in their place, on a level with all the rest of us. Fuck the rich.
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