I ran across a great comment on digg tonight. I came across the comment, by user p0ss, at the bottom of the comments for the Project Censored Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008 (They do a yearbook and the stories are for the previous year... lots of people on digg were hung up on the 2008 thing.)
I slightly edited it and put it inside the following block-quote, kind of like a frame for a nice picture.
- In a situation where representative democracy has been usurped by a corporate oligarchy, it is safe to assume that political measures will be largely ineffective.
- In such a situation individuals are still left with two important votes.
- The dollar vote, and the minute vote.
- The dollar vote is our ability to influence the world around us by deciding in every moment what reality is worthy of our dollar, and hence our support.
- Unfortunately we are at a massive disadvantage as a wealthy minority controls the vast majority of the dollar vote.
- The minute vote is the time we spend in each minute of our lives, and it is incredibly powerful.
- Doing volunteer work and talking to people about important issues both have an incredible impact on the nature of your reality.
- While the amount of dollar votes you can attain each week is wildly variable, the amount of minute votes each individual has is exactly equal.
- Each week I have 1000 dollar votes and 10,000 minute votes, but a person who was 10,000,000 dollar votes each week, still only has 10,000 minute votes.
- Each week we spend the majority of our waking minute votes trying to attain dollar votes, and by and large we are bought rather cheaply.
- The remaining minute votes are incredibly powerful, but we waste them on distractions.
- There are far more of us than there are of them, as such our minute votes vastly out weigh their minute votes.
- That is the key to overcoming them.
- We must spend our free minutes wisely, and urge others to do the same.
- Give your time to worthy causes, and the world around you, the reality we all inhabit, will become noticeably better.
Thank's for the perspective p0ss,
~Chris
If anyone knows of any other musings on this topic please post links or thoughts in the comments.