POLITICAL DISILLUSIONMENT

 

October 8, 2015: Something is Missing in the Debates

Preamble: I dislike politics for a variety of reasons, much the same as how much I dislike religion (corruption, deceit, whatever). Ironically enough, one of the biggest problems with religions are the politics. Perhaps there is nothing wrong with either, and the problem lies solely with the people. Perhaps misanthropy is my passion. In any case, today I very briefly discuss a key argument against the world’s developed governments, or more generally, the status quo.

Are we fast approaching, or have we already become a post-industrial society?
Regardless of the answer, we are shifting quickly deeper into the service industries: tertiary, quaternary, and quinary.

The problem is this: capitalism and democracy is inherently flawed. For one, it does not represent the needs and desires of the people; it instead serves the elite, and the hypnotized majority. Second, as a result of the first, the great many of us suffer, and will suffer indefinitely without radical change.

I could delve deep into more examples of bullshit, but with time as my constraint, given that I am a cog in this capitalist machine and must perform my wage-slave duties, I must just make mention of one example:

Technological Unemployment

(Check below for two great sources to learn about it. Hopefully I will make a video about this in the coming weeks/months)

The parties and the people are so concerned with solving unemployment and poverty issues, but they are unsolvable; how can you solve a problem that you do not talk about, or refuse to talk about in meaningful, permanent ways? Humans tend to think short-term, and one of the biggest long-term problems is the issue of technological unemployment.

As time goes by, human obsolescence becomes a greater reality, even the white collars in accounting, management, law, medicine, etc. will be rendered useless through no fault of their own – well, I guess their sole “fault” is being human What does this say about those that are unable to achieve higher education? We can or will be able to replace the ants of cheap labour, and we can replace the giants of highly skilled labour [See below].

Now, as said, we can become more socialist, which I am personally for, but of course, this is not something we talk about. My political compass set me at “anarcho-syndicalism” which pits me at the opposite corner from the top-right that everyone else is in (Obama, Harper, whatever). My closest mates are the Dalai Lama, and I believe Ghandi.

Anyways. I just want everyone to keep in mind the importance of wealth distribution. We need to worry about much more than just unemployment, job creation, and taxation.

Hopefully you too will find the Light and see why I am so disillusioned with… everything. Hopefully you are smarter than me, or can form a smarter collaboration, so that you can solve the problems of today, and the catastrophes of tomorrow.

Peace and Love,

Jame

P.S.
I voted green but it is most likely a wasted vote – the first past the post system makes it most viable to choose from the big three. In terms of genuine political ideology, the right is the opposite of how I feel. I am reformist/radical left. ? > Green > NDP/Liberal.

Sources on Technological Unemployment

“humans need not apply” video by CP Grey

Stephen Hawking, Reddit AMA
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3nyn5i/science_ama_series_stephen_hawking_ama_answers/cvsdmkv

Further Further reading

• Watson, IBM supercomputer that destroyed Jeopardy and will be used to help diagnose medical problems
• Self-driving cars, think about what this means for the transportation industry. Yes, traffic jams will be a thing of the past (so might cars…) but so till will taxi drivers, trucks, planes,…
• Baxter, robot that learns things. these three are pulled directly from the CGP grey video actually, so yeah, watch it.
• Libertarian socialism
• anarcho syndicalism
• http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/syndicalism.htm