As a generally self-educated soul, wandering around the Okanagan
Valley trying to think of ways to make the world better, I would like to
suggest a few ideas to make the Canadian people richer, smarter and happier.
That should be the goal of any government, and is (of course) the goal of the
Rhinoceros Party. This group is made of people who would like politics to be
fun, like golf or some better sport, and those who are just watching us for
words like “revolution” and “economic.” Due to the troubles caused by leaders
who are looking out for their own self-interest, I would like to make some
arguments that will lead to a better world for all. It is a rare economic idea
that does not put the initial agent writing it first, but these should be (if
all goes according to plan) good ideas that will help the world in general, not
just for the Rhinoceros party and it’s supporters.
The first thing we need to do is initiate en-mass an
educational program that explains that we have the responsibility to care for
others, especially those who are less fortunate than us. People have the idea
that they must care for their kind, their family, but do not care and look down
upon those who need the help the most. Those people that one sees who are angry
or sad are being ruled by fear, meaning they are afraid of the world – a world
that should be love-filled and kind to them, but has not been. The world is a
large and balanced place, where some are nice and some are mean, but the actual
process of politics makes it so that the people who are most self-centered and
manipulative become the most powerful people in a democratic nation. The
others, those who do not care what other people do, like most of the kind
people who seek the idea “live and let live”, and those who are not “determined
to be proven correct” enough to gain power never even try to gain power in the
world. The cure for this is two-fold, first we must explain to the kind people
that those who seek power are generally rotten, and then we must convince the
kind people that we will eventually have the power for righteous reasons,
because the people of our generation, those raised with infinite knowledge at
our fingertips at all times will eventually attain power by the power of
eventuality.
Politicians often do not say the philosophically “best” idea
when they are trying to get elected. In many books about how to get elected, it
is explained that one must say what the people want to hear. This is why the
new Trudeau said that he was going to legalize marijuana, and then told us
that, “They will not let me.” I found this quote somewhere in the news (which I
have not looked up since first reading, because this is the Rhinoceros party
group and not an academic paper). The quote says two things; either Justin
Trudeau is not the most powerful person in Canada (even though we elected him
in order to cause social change and a make our country better and he is our
figurehead or leader), or he was just saying what he thought (knew) that my
generation wanted to hear.
Either way, there is trouble here. This is a powerful
thought, that we can just say what people want to hear, and is something that
is proven by every Rhinoceros candidate in the nation. People want to hear us
give a coffee and cigarettes stipend so that everyone can afford organic and
fair-trade coffee and the good cigarettes, but in reality we will not be able
to do that, and that does not matter. Not everyone cares what he or she drinks
and smokes. The proof is really in the pudding, so don’t eat it, it is filled
with cigarette butts.
The model of populist democracy says that everyone’s vote
counts and that everyone has a say in every decision, but this theory is not
the way it works in reality, where most of the citizens will have not voted for
who is in power, simply because of the math behind the parliamentary system.
This is why every decision should be put to a public vote, at a store in every
town, or even online. This place could be the center of actual democracy. That
way, even if you didn’t vote for the person who got into power, they will be
able to poll their constituents and make decisions based on the greatest good
for all. The trouble is we must rely of the benevolence of our leaders, a
notion that has thus far been far from the reality.
The truth is, if a benevolent person wanted to be in a
powerful position he would be eaten up in the shark tank of politics and those
looking out for their own self-interest. Some politicians are trying to do
well, I’ll admit, but in my realization of self I understand that good,
although not entirely relative, is not necessarily the same for every person in
a vast and very different world. I have a friend who nearly left Canada when
Harper was voted in for a second term, and a cousin who nearly left Canada when
he did not win his third term. Both are fine guys to hang out with. I
understand that people have different views about what is needed, but I would
like to believe that everyone wants the same things. The key to making a good
politician is to find out the things that everyone actually wants.
What are the things that all people want? I think it is fair
that we can say that all people want, and should have access to three things:
food, water and shelter. There are people in this country that can easily give
these three things to everyone who does not have them in this country, but they
refuse. I understand the argument that people do not always spend the money
that we do give them on these things, meaning that some people spend their welfare
cheques on booze and drugs and not food, water and shelter. These people are
running from their lives, trying to blind themselves from their shitty
existence.
It is proven that if you make these people’s lives better,
through homes, food and meaningful work, than they will usually quit using the
drugs and booze to numb their pain. I have also heard the idea that these
people are weak, and are unable to do the things that everyone in the country
have to do, so if they refuse to make a difference in their own life, “then
fuck ‘em.” I argue this point with the idea that these people are in the need
of the most help, and if you can’t see that we are responsible for the well
being of the most vulnerable members of our society as well as ourselves, then
you are an asshole and I don’t really want to know you. With this “Fuck ‘em”
mentality, when we are all in this together, we are actually fucking ourselves,
which is not as pleasurable as loving them, and therefore loving ourselves.
I don’t really know what this is supposed to state, and I
hope it causes people to think about the things that they are doing to make the
world better or worse for all involved. I would like to believe that I am free
to do the things I want with love, and thereby will be making the entire world
better with that simple gesture, but there is a chance that is not the way that
it is. I think the complexities of human relations on a macro scale are so
large that they are not only impossible to graph, they would be impossible to
get an idea of everyone’s facts in real time so that we could make actual
change. This is a problem for people who are trying to make the policies. I
think this is what I am trying to gain a vast array of knowledge to be able to
solve. So far I want to believe that the cure for the world’s woes is simply to
work out of a sense of love and togetherness, without trying to hurt people or
separate them into social groups of race, class or any other form of
non-hegemony, and definitely trying to help the people who we systematically
destroyed and ghettoized in the most traditional sense of the words. The people
who are hurting need the most help. They do not need to be sent away, or spat
on. These are people, that – there, by the grace of God, goes you. Remember that.
