I had a bit of a power trip moment at work this morning. After months of repression, I was finally given the chance to dictate my terms to faceless members of a project team I have very little to do with or even knowledge about. ‘Send me these documents!’ ‘Confirm these values!’ ‘Resolve this issue!’ and ‘Stop bloody hassling me!’ A very liberating circumstance, the faking of one’s own knowledge and the resolution of challenges through other peoples labours. One could get the hang of this. Who needs an autonomous society? I’m sure we’d all happily be dictator for a day. We all have our repressed, dictatorial leanings. I know I do. (Say that like the guy talking about pyramid schemes in ‘Garden State’: ‘we all have dreams… I know I do) Oh, and by the way, none of this is true.
No, it is true. If I ruled the world, would you want to live in it? I wouldn’t be so bad. Prob’ly just force all the rich people to remove the lining from their pockets and do some good in the world, then have a small elitist revolution on my hands. Ah well, that’d be fine. Down with the Bourgeoisie, up the Workers! Don’t worry, I don’t really believe this.
No, I really do believe this. Is it true democracy’s the worst form of government? Apart from all the others? Why have we had 5000 years and still not figured anything out? Why do civilizations crumble to nothing? And when will ours? It’s alright, these aren’t my questions.
No, they are my questions. I demand explanations. I want a system that works. I want liberty and justice for all; not just those who can afford it. I want egalité, fraternité, and some other French word that calls to mind revolution.
I want to climb down off my soapbox before I give myself a nosebleed.
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