Walking Contradiction

I seem to be at odds with myself. I oppose the capitalist system that I'm a part of everyday I wake up and go to work. A system that puts a price tag on everything and worse, everyone. A price tag that looms over our heads that is based on an estimate of your value, your perceived worth as a person. When money is worth more than life and freedom does anyone else see that as a major problem?

We're indoctrinated into this capitalist system from birth and we just accept this everyday. It's hard to change when everything you have is invested in something, of course it's hard. You can't help but feel what choice do you have?

But everyday all we seem to do is further someone else's ends. We're fed diversions and given distractions, told to shut up and not question why the people doing the least work reap all the rewards in life, when without the people on the bottom there would be nothing. Just keep spending your money on material bullshit and don't question, don't question why the gap between the rich and poor grows perpetually. How do the bourgeois sleep at night knowing the uneven distribution of wealth robs people across the world of the bare necessities of life?

People delude themselves that casting a vote every few years ensures that the politicians and governments elected won't allow this to happen, that we'll all be given a 'fair go'. Elections are irrelevant when opposing political parties are just variations of the same thing, any apparent differences are only skin deep. Does your vote means something? Do politicians care about you? Will they protect you? It's the lobbyists they listen to, the representatives of the rich and powerful from every industry. Politicians follow their own agendas and quickly forget that they are accountable to the people.

Whatever happened to equality? We live in a world where no-one is born equal. Will we work our entire lives just to die with little more than we started with just to line the pockets of the few? Are we resigned to our fate as mere worker bees within the hive?

When will people realise that the power to change the future comes from our ability to unite and say that this is not the way things have to be!


'If there is hope, it is with the proles' George Orwell ~ Nineteen Eighty Four


'alone I set my mind in motion'