Sunday, January 18, 2009

Social Circus

Everyday we curse our country and its so called "system", a word which even a 5 year old can talk about. Many geniuses say that all it takes is one person to solve the entire thing. The person, me. If i change myself things will become all favourable. Its me who ll have to change, not them, not anyone else. And if i dont change, than ladies and gentlemen, we are stuck with the same corrupt environment. We say knowing that its highly impossible, i mean, seriously, if i change, how will things change for others? people will do what they want, no matter what, no mater what i become. It ll take alot of courage to accept that yes, we are back to the jungle rule, where the one with the power is the law.
Every single day we are waiting at the signal, waiting hours at each. It just opens for 15 seconds, the average time that is required to wake up the people in the front line with our deafening horns. Its green, 15 seconds later all the cars ahead of us leave, except ours. Thus we are forced to break signals, taking ourselves as james bond, gunning our rides to the other end in less than a second, dodging the trafic coming right at us like angry bulls. We still break the signal, showing our asses to the others, to the standing policemen, to the whole "system". But well, our glory is short lived, as some policeman comes infront of our car with his fat belly and his slick jutt tone, and we know its time to feed the hungry beast with some colored paper, which we consider as great value, yet it takes only a mere cent to make.
Anyways, leaving this thought aside, we are stuck on the middle of a road, stuck with a cow with paper horns which will turn into flowers as soon as we flash them. The geniuses sitting on our heads, have a very simple approach to this: ask for the proper ticket. Oh my, how could i have missed that? To be responsible, i have to take the proper ticket, and avoid the monster called "bribe".
So i try this, i try asking for a proper ticket, like a responsible citizen whose changing his life so that things get easier for others, lovely. I run a red light, get caught, ask for a ticket. And what a lovely response i get: lets not get into the paper works, we are brothers, i wouldnt like to see you standing in the line in some bank. How sweet! But sadly it just means its flashing time again. But once again, my civil duty hits me, and i argue that i really want a ticket. He gives me one, 900 bucks for running a red light. Good enough, i deserve this. But that is not enough for the cow, who has suddenly turned nasty. He demands paper(money), "demands" it. He has my license, and wont even give me my ticket, without which i cant have my license back. So back to the monster it is. I bribed a cop to GIVE ME A TICKET!! Brilliant.
So maybe it is not only me who has to change. maybe it is time to be more sensible and accept, that yes, we all have to change. Getting a ticket is not all that is required, it is more than that, much more than that. It is about time that we stop pointing fingers at everything, and start pointing at things which really pisses us off: us. We cant change anything, when we think the smallest of the things, like signals, are unfair. And no, a single "leader" wont be able to change anything for us. We need an army of leaders, ruthless leaders, like Fidel Castro, like Che Guevara, in short: we need the worst to fix us up, and we need a whole lot of them, fast.