Response to Russell Brand on Voting

If you haven't seen it yet, please do.

Russell Brand had an interview in which he had spoke on as to why he chooses not to vote (I mean let's be real he's not an American citizen anyways so I'm sure that's got part to do with it but I digress).

You may watch the video here.

"I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people."
"I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity."

I have to agree with most of what he speaks of, at least on the level of having similar interests in mind for the planet and humanity as a whole and for stopping power of the corporate lobbyists and corporate agendas. Don't get me wrong that's a major issue here with the powers being held by the few, while the majority of the population trods along with the illusion that they have a choice, being spoon fed whatever is needed to pump their brains full of false ideas and ideals through television.

OBEY

But alas, I lost Russell at the point of the interview where he falls upon extreme taxation as the "solution to all the problems of the world."

I get the point, it looks good on paper (as it ALWAYS does), it keeps bad corporations from "retaining control" by controlling the money supply, but how can something like that be regulated? It will hurt an honest person at some point who worked hard through many years of dedication to become wealthy and who may have no political gain in the matter. (We could even use Russell as an example)

Taxation is like playing nanny to humanity, as if having no faith in the goodwill of people. We can't have a revolution and put more power in the governments' hands to continue to tax and regulate business! That's the exact OPPOSITE of a revolution! You're not putting power in the people's hands that way. 

I find it funny, it's pretty typical of an English man to want high taxation!

No taxation without representation.

Democracy fails in large populations. You can argue that this "high taxation" is represented of the population voted by the people (yet we're all praising Russell's ideal of not voting). Clearly democracy is failing and is better designed for less dense populations where you are more fairly representing the will of the people. 

In a democracy of 10 people, when 6 vote against 4, you're only harming 4 people. Even in harming that 40% equivalent of 4 people, those 4 people are more apt to have a dialog with the other 6 in order to make sure they're not being taken advantage of. In a democracy of 10,000, that same 60% - 40% split instead harms 4,000 people, and in our current DOCUMENTED US Population of over 315  MILLION people, you're VOTING against the FREE WILL of 126 MILLION, where these 126 million people have almost no say in the matter, and the wishes of the 99% are being swept under the rug of the 1%. (Please.. do not correlate my 99-1% with the "I am the 99%" bullshit, it's merely a feasible example.)


So here we are...


Lest we forget that the power of people is held when government has little to do with anything? If a particular corporation is causing a monopolized, power hungry, greedy agenda, we CAN organize and boycott that corporation and take them down from the inside out instead of creating a middleman to exploit the innocent. Even if only that 40% does not support the wills of the corporation, that would be 126 MILLION voices, in power in numbers acting out the wishes and actions of their voices and not just putting it on paper to get scoffed at.

That's what the revolution needs to be, to destroy the overbearing hand of what our government is now resembling of the British monarchical system that we fought to be free from in the first place, not to revert further into it.

Just because someone is charismatic and uses above average vernacular doesn't make their ideas better than yours. 

We've got to be critical, we've got to keep thinking, we can't just buy into the ideals of another individual because we identify PARTLY (if any) with what they're saying and then switch "Off" and ignore the rest of their plan.

Don't you want to have the voice for yourself? 

Don't vote, act.

Don't listen, think.

Don't allow any more of your earnings get STOLEN from you in order to support a bullshit BIG GOVERNMENT.

Don't listen to a Brit, we seceded from them in the first place for these exact problems that we're facing today.

Divide and Conquer

I never really thought about that saying too much before. I always just associated it with either the Looney Tunes playing out some wacky scene, or Pinky and the Brain attempting to take over Warner Brothers, but I never really thought about it.

Think about it. If only for a moment.

Divide and conquer.

What about this age old saying do you end up thinking about?

Well, it all dawned on me this morning. I was reading a fabulous article today breaking down the banking system and the 9 things they've done over the course of history to create a "less obvious" slavery on the world. It was very interesting, but not for the person who practices apathy, it would be too much to digest.

Divide and conquer.

"Sell concepts like “nationalism”, and incite religious-based and race-based hate to divide and conquer people from uniting against a segment of society (bankers) that commits a long list of atrocities that would have landed anyone else in jail centuries ago."
(click to read the article)

How many times has this phrase been used in entertainment? How little do we respect it? 

What it truly is saying, is if you divide your target and pin them against each other, you can conquer all.

Divide and conquer.

Would you go as far as agreeing with me that this is exactly what the media and current government administration is trying to do? Either way, whether or not I stand alone with this, I don't doubt it with any bit of wavering.

Let's look around us. Anytime there's an individual whose ideas differ, do we not become defensive?

What if we all learned to set aside our differences, and mean it, and learn how to work together in harmony to overcome the obstacles we face today? Why don't we all agree to do our part and take our lives and our country (and eventually our world) back?

Is it really just too easy to give in and allow ourselves to get consumed in entertainment beyond reason, and let the world fall apart?

What's stopping us from honestly achieving happiness? Entertainment has it's place, don't get me wrong, but how biased does it have to get?

Divide and conquer.

It's poetry / lyric time:

Fat Queen

They pop us full of pills

To keep us working, for their fill

Life was not meant to be lived this way

And I’m sick of the charade they play

Worker ants to serve the queen

So she may live fat and happy

So she may fuck us all

Time is money, but both were imagined

Both have been assigned value

Because they know many will follow suit

To obtain the things we could create

With or without it

Worker ants to serve the queen

So she may live fat and happy

So she may fuck us all

© Nicole DeRoy 2013