dog eat dog

Who doesn't know what a dog eat dog world is?  If you don't, here you go.  It's a metaphor about another species, but it refers to us humans.  It doesn't refer to dogs, because I've never heard of a dog eating another dog.  But we humans eat other humans, literally and figuratively.  When one man who enjoys all of life's wonderfulness exploits a less fortunate man, he is devouring that man's future.  Yet he is seen as a powerful, succesful man.  But those who eat other humans are considered sick fucko's.  Which they are...but we usually have sympathy for the sick, and help them recover. 

     In a recent journal entry I quoted Thomas Jefferson.  Our founding father didn't believe in a government.  In fact, when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, some of his colleagues pointed out that he owned slaves.  He admitted that hypocrisy, but also ordered all of his slaves to be released.  Yet our current government uses our passion for our founding fathers to get us to support our government.  Think about that hypocrisy. 

     Power is given. When a man claims to be your leader, you give him the power to control your life.  This leader isn't necessarily one man...for we continually vote new men into office every eight years at the maximum...sometimes sooner.  I will still refer to the leader as one man, for other governments exist where the one man is the leader for much, much, much, much (is that too gratuitous? haha) longer.  Once you have done this, and others have done this, he starts to build his empire.  As time goes on two things happen.  Every problem that this so called leader solves can lead to more problems that need to be solved.  At first you appreciate all that this man is doing to make your life better.  Meanwhile he is building an army to protect himself.  This army originally believes in his causes.  They are rewarded with money, respect, and sometimes fame.  By the time the leader's followers notice how fucked up things are getting, they have no choice but to go along.  Now he has police and military to scare you into sticking with his plan to exploit you.  If today, I break a law, even a ridiculous one, I can not just walk away from the police.  I cannot tell him that his power is worthless to me.  Because if he can't bring me down...there are plenty of other officers to give him back-up...If I foresee that and create a plan to protect myself from these officers, they can send the SWAT team, and if I am ahead of that plan they can send the military.  If I try to plan for that, I must organize many people for my cause.  If that leader finds out that I am organizing those people, he will arrest me before it comes to that.  So we feel trapped, and therefore are slaves. 

     This is why I can't do it alone, and I can't find enough allies.  The beast will fightand fight for its power.  The only way that we can take their power away is to have more men on our side than them, and a good plan to exploit their protection system.  The military men and the police are benefitting from the system in a monetary way, but they also risk their lives everyday to a greater degree than the rest of us.  They also know that they will be royally fucked if the higher ups in those forces find out that they are ready to set their weapons down. 

     I will speak with various members of these forces and you will see that they are people, just like you and me.  The higher ups don't actually fight these wars themselves.  They don't die for our freedoms...they don't die in the line of duty...In fact most officers of the military have never been a soldier.  The American people, including the soldiers, the street cops, the workers, and even the ghetto kids, outnumber those higher up officers, outnumber the politicians, and outnumber every dictator in the world...So we can not change our lives unless we stick together...

Don't worry Uncle Sam, we aren't threatening your safety, we are only securing ours...isn't that the platform you use when you invade another country?