Why
is it that having a hobby is healthy and being mildly obsessed with a band, a movie
star or a literature character harmful?
Humans
have a funny way to categorize everything and make sure that, whatever it is
that is placed above or beneath previously traced lines, is crushed back to
exist within limits or expelled forcefully through the use of real-world
politics.
Yes,
I used the word politics.
Because
politics is exactly what one may find meticulously defined in the contents of a
dictionary: power struggle, machinations, maneuvering and finally opportunism.
Part of the reason why I hate politics so much is how aware I am of its
influence and how incredibly sensible I am about its effect on people.
Politics
push everybody to think like everybody and I have no patience regarding those
individuals who won’t let me be an individual. To constantly feel pressure to
make a good impression because, believe it or not, I might offend Joe and Jack
over there when they finally find out my radical and poetic visions regarding
my own self and my own preferences when it comes to whatever do not match
theirs.
‘Whatever’
is too much of an issue to deal with because taboo is a much easier thing to
fight over than, I don’t know, anything that is truly important. Because the
idea of fighting, after all, is overrated and blown out of proportions, which
leaves nothing to the imagination and everything to the shallow. To fight over
something is a luxury item that is truly available for all.
The
one thing we have in common: the capacity to argue over nothing.
When
one argues my “opinion” (note how I placed opinion between quotation marks)
offends them or outrages them or makes me less of the human I obviously am, I
puke a little inside my mouth but before feeling sick, I feel fine.
I,
in the end, know better while the pig that spits on my face knows only how to
be… a pig. That’s true politics, to point the finger at somebody for having
some ludicrous idea and mock him or her for expressing thoughts in a very
inoffensive manner. To create the idea in others that a harmless someone is not
worth any attention and to do so forcefully, through the use of a detrimental
and abusive approach… now that is politics.
Wow.
A post that started as a rebellious way of telling the world I do not like to hide
what I feel that finished with a rant about real-world politics… We haven’t
changed much since Columbus ‘came across’ the Americas and I guess evolution is
nothing but a faint notion of idealized humanity that mankind is simply not
able to wrap its collective mind around… and never will.
