I have never had a blog before, but the issues I want to cover are so strong that I can't just write them in a notepad for noone to ever see. I want them out there.
If you don't care about change, if you believe that there is nothing we can do to change society so we should just get on with it, and if you are happy with society, the world and life as it is, then don't read my blog. Your opinions in all of the above will probably change or you will just become frustrated at my exposure of your every day "life" which has been set out for you and that you have become accustomed to.
I would apologise, but I think we all need to open our eyes to what the world is, to what it has become and need to see if there is anything we can do, not to just assume that we are the powerless against the powerful. There are more of us than them, and I'm sure I am not the only person in the world that feels this way...
P&L.
Charlie.
whilst i agree that there are more of us than there is of them.. i think there will always be that divide. they have that power for a reason. and the reason i think, will always be unknown. - truth and honesty is lacking. and that is the wider issue.
ReplyDeleteand whilst we need to change society - that will only get us so far, due to the controlled environment in which we live. there are certain things that happen, are decided and controlled by the government and the "superiors" of our country and indeed our world.
we do need change, and i'm not saying we shouldn't try. But it's never going to work with a very small minority. but the small minority would need to develop to the larger population, and become a majority. we are unfortunately, a varied species, with people who are always going to disrupt the peace and believe in things a little more outrageous or unacceptable to what we think is right.
In relation to the knowledge people have about these decisions and controlled factors of our environment are limited as well. How can we know exactly what is truth and what isn't? is a question i am constantly battling with - trust is where the changes in that sense, need to be born from. and i don't think we are even remotely close to achieving that just yet. why i believe this is the case, is because there are things that are put out as public knowledge, but never implicitly so. i could explain this in more detail with relation to something i know, but there is fear stimulated within it; that the knowledge of certain aspects of how this country is run and the control that certain aspects of society have, is actually.. quite scary to know. if you read up on things suggested by the occupy groups in the UK - yes, some are somewhat ridiculous and some conspiracies are complete rubbish - but the ones that have merit, are genuinely terrifying.
i think when these things are pointed out and people grab onto them in order to seek change, fear is a reasonable response. you somewhat accumulate a group or individual who is now in a spotlight that actually, no one really wants to be in, irrelevant of whether the knowledge is capable of influencing change - because there is a huge amount of risk when there is no majority. certain knowledge that we need in order to break the control and develop the trust, is difficult to handle for some people... and society will continue to behave like a simulation and follow unwritten rules, because fear is enforced and they'd rather live in denial that such things exist.
we do however, have the control to develop the society we encounter on an every day basis, which can make these fears a little more irrelevant - make everything a bit more worth while, and have more opportunity to develop as a group on our own terms, rather than following these unwritten codes on how to behave with one another - developing yourself is probably the groundwork which needs to be placed. because surely, if you don't know how to see the world from your own eyes, in the way that you would want the world to be... how are you supposed to initiate any change in the greater population?
so, yes.. i agree, we need the change. we need societies emotional and behavioural pickpockets as it were, to reduce their negativity rates and develop themselves to widen their horizons and broaden their minds.. which would be a good "somewhere" to start in my opinion.
if that happens, then maybe we can be a more accepting, peaceful population, and government would have less trouble, and therefore have lesser need to enforce ridiculous controls, and the world would accumulate less cultural stigmas. - whether we are too far gone to get this however, is another question entirely.
(this is nowhere near as good as the post i wrote before, when it didn't actually post... but it'll do.)
Whilst I can see the merits of this argument I don't think anything will change anytime soon. In any democracy there must be a fair power distribution, something that I would say our elections represent. Whilst it may appear the general population is always at odds with the government, we did put them there. It must be equally frustrating to be an official who has created a policy, only to watch it being exploited and used improperly. I personally believe that if you want something in life you can generally obtain it, and its just making excuses to blame the society you live in. There are many injustices in the world but the distribution of power in Britain is not one of them.
ReplyDeleteps. This is entirely my own view, not trying to tread on anyones toes.
Mike Hawkes
Hey Meg & Mike,
ReplyDeleteI see what you both mean, but you can't sit and say nothing will change, if you want the change enough. As you say, you can obtain something in life if you want it enough, but I am waiting until I have a doctorate and a degree in Psychology to ensure people will actually listen to what I have to say and take my points seriously. This post was simply outlining the blog themes to come in the future, and my strongest feelings lie in changing the educational system in the U.K., and unfortunately it is incredibly clear that we have a corrupt educational system that is not doing the trick anymore. It's about jumping through hoops and so on. So in that respect, I can blame society. I had nothing to do with this, "the powers that be" did, so my aim in life is to change this.
Our elections do not represent fair power distribution. We use the "first past the post" system, just have a look at the 'pros and cons' in this article. http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/first-past-the-post/ Plus, it wouldn't be frustrating for an official if they had created a policy that considered the population as opposed to constantly thinking about money and scratching their own backs. We have no idea what goes on behind closed doors.
This blog isn't a place for me to complain about societies inadequacies, it's a place where I would like to voice my manifesto and my opinions.
I respect your opinion, thank you. :)
Charlie Ketchen.
I would argue that the 'corrupt' British education system isn't all bad. We both went to a state school and now we are both at university, funded by student finance (another state run programme). This isn't an opportunity afforded to many other countries.
ReplyDeleteWith regards to our voting system I can see the pros and cons but what would be the alternative? Any system has its flaws, ours involves all parties having their say then the nation voting.
And with regards to officials looking for personal gain, these are in the minority. They are 'easy news' for the tabloids and the expenses scandal only heightened this ill feeling. At the end of the country does revolve around money and they always need more. We live in a society of limitless need and limitless resources, not something that I believe will change anytime soon.
:)
Limited resources* :)
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