Pessimism: About our business we go

About our business we all go, day to day.  The various moving parts of the country running . . . smoothly?  Like a juggler with many objects in the air, hands a-blur, more and more objects being added until the blur of hands can no longer keep up.

But on the system goes with all us snug inside.  Playing our parts – we are all integral, right?  Involved and integrated citizens doing our part.  Voting, for example, lets us have our say.

Then a news item comes out or a book is released, the kinds of stories that surface then sink with suitable rapidity.  Other interests have their say in the way our country is run?  What is that you say?  Groups more powerful than the government, that influence the government: influence the government more than the individual citizens?

How much insult can one take in one’s life?  To live and toil – to fit in but not truly have any input in how things are run: surely we close our ears and our minds when these stories surface.  We dutifully sink these stories, stories incepted in our minds with a hole in the hull, sinking into the depths of our consciousness, down to the depths that we cannot see or remember.  In doing so we again play our part in society, supplying inattentiveness.  Inattentiveness, such a useful thing to have in societies, how essential to the functioning of society.  Inattentiveness fueled by Hollywood, television, alcohol and drugs.  But we still matter and we won’t let ourselves be told otherwise.