I’ve never cared for politics. I’m honestly not much of a political person. I see it as pointless and often a waste of energy to spout opinions back and forth while nothing truly gets resolved. Some people, many of them I know of, get OFF on it. They get all wrapped up like a burrito in their political party and just badmouth the other party without truly looking from an objective perspective. Hence all this productive energy is wasted and nothing truly beneficial comes of it.

I firmly believe it’s come to a completey biased system. One man could meet another man – both of them enjoy each other’s company up until they find out what each others’ political party is. Then everything changes. It’s become nearly as ridiculous as a rivarly between two high schools. It’s been explained to me that people, by nature, are pack animals and will quickly group together with like-minded people, denouncing those who they disagree with. “We’re better than you because we’re us and you’re NOT us! *fight song*”

Of course it would be unfair of me to completely stereotype those who are passionate about their political beliefs. I’m very sure there are those who are incredibly objective and open minded while truly following their beliefs.

Lately, with the slump of our economy, I find myself more and more disappointed in our government. It’s become such a convoluted and slippery system that our national debt and deficit is beyond repair. There are systems in place that are so archaic and primitive that they do nothing but drive up those numbers. We have the technology, and the potential, to completely rehaul our government where the people can truly run the country without having to depend on senators and representatives to “represent” us. Our monetary system doesn’t work either… not only do we have to pay taxes to a government that doesn’t know how to spend, but they’re allowing banks to loan out more money than we have. The value of our dollar is constantly going down with nothing to back it. Nothing seems to be truly effective and functional anymore, and people seem to be so afraid of real change that they continue to act in the two big packs, as the pack animals we are – Republican or Democrat.

I really believe my country has been great. It has potential to be even greater. We can cure cancer, explore space, access the other 90% of our brain we don’t even use if we can simply look past our petty little opinions and create a society that focuses on improving ourselves and each other. The solution is simple, but true individial change is not. I love the freedoms I have and I think we should all use these freedoms to fix our system so that we CAN do great things for humanity. But if we’re so focused on how many trillions of dollars we owe and who’s political football team is better, than we simply can’t evolve as a species. Doesn’t anyone notice that our system isn’t working anymore? Aren’t we tired of being treated like robots?

My friend Rachel called me the other day:

Rachel, “Hey Rob, who are you voting for?”
Me, “Heh, I’m not voting.”
Rachel, “WHAT? Why not?!”
Me, “I just… can’t support a system that isn’t working anymore.”

People think it’s bad that guys like me don’t vote. I think it’s good, actually. Think about it. If people stop voting, how will officials get elected? This will cause a ton of drastic change, and even some chaos for a while, but we’ve got the potential to create a true, people driven government without all the representatives and corruption. The technology and brainpower is there, we just can’t be afraid to give up our comfortable, traditional way of living. People called Christopher Columus crazy. They called Albert Einstein crazy. People who bring about true innovation are often called crazy initially, but now we view them as pioneers for humanity. If it wasn’t for these limitless thinkers and visioneers, we wouldn’t even be remotely close to where we are today scientifically, technologically, and emotioanlly. Appreciate what those amazing individuals have done for the past. That’s the first step. From there we can take what we’ve learned from them and apply them to innovate ourselves into a better society.

My vote is for a new system that actually works, but unfortunately that’s not on the ballot. Awh man.

Ok, this is about as political as I’ll ever get. I do love this country, don’t get me wrong.  We’ve come so far over the past 300 years, and it’s time to turn our energy towards what WILL work over the NEXT 300 years. Right now, with the system working as it is, it doesn’t work. Let’s create a advanced utopia (Star Trek!), not a people herding system (Idiocracy).

That is all. Rawr.