rabbiteleven

I have reached a political cul de sac. Have you had that moment where you want more than anything else to do your part and do it properly, so that real solutions might be found for our very real problems? Me too. So I attempt to inform myself, not just with the facts behind the issues, or the workings of the political process itself, but also with a wide range of viewpoints and arguments. And that's where things get...maddening.

Take five minutes and scout around-look at editorials of every kind, the raving of pundits, and especially comment sections online for any remotely political blog, article, or video. It's a cacophony that will make you lose all faith in human beings to accomplish ANYTHING meaningful. I come away from the experience thinking only that we are a seething mass of ill-informed, emotionally unstable, self righteous sucklings that couldn't get it together for two seconds to agree on the color of shit.

And all this because I was CONCERNED. I wanted to shed my apathy and be a participating citizen. And I wanted to do it responsibly. This, my friends, is why people give up and grow cold. This is why the good die young. Progress, evolution, even arbitration: these things are incongruous with the human beast. To press on when confronted with this revelation requires a resolve that is just damned hard to come by anymore. I'm not sure that I possess it. I have so many doubts.

So what is one to do in this situation?