Lies & Misapprehensions

Look to the sky for your misconceptions.  With razored hands and a whole bunch of nothing, we continue on.  Not feeling 100% with the program, but at least it's Thursday and pay day.  Just experienced my first pay cycle with the new tax rates, which results in more money being withheld for tax compared to before, meaning I lose out from a net result.  I've explained it yesterday, so I won't go into it again, but it sucks.  At least my HECS debt will be paid off when I lodge my tax return.  That's an ordeal that should never have happened.  I've been technically losing money ever since I've been working to repay this debt that the generation above mine didn't have to pay.  They really did so well, free higher education, cheaper property prices, and wage increases were much higher than the cost of living increases.  Then they work to screw over the younger generation.  Things have to change.  I've just got this massive problem with so called democracy and capitalism.  We work in a rigid system of rules in which nobody is happy.  So many people are suffering and struggling, but there's no impetus to actively help them because things are distributed in such stupid ways by Government (not just Conservative ones).  Welfare is skewed to far to unemployment, and usually to people who want to stay unemployed, not those who legitimately cannot work.  Where's the assistance for youth, mental health, healthcare, and disability?  There is none.  It's all being cut and focused on silly infrastructure projects.  I'm telling you, none of it makes sense.  The rules need to be changed, things need to be more flexible, and there has to be more of a balance.

The world is being ruined by an over-reliance on military aggression as diversion, fear-mongering and stupidity of the majority of the population (with a mixture of apathy), and career made politicians.  There's no longer a cross section of society in politics.  You see political science people and political advisers and lawyers making up the bulk of Government these days.  They've been doing it for almost their entire lives, from their university days onwards.  And where's the recognition of society?  Of those who are not like them?  They are so far removed from society!  Yet they've set up a system where independent candidates have a difficult time getting in because they don't have the money to spend on campaigning.  That leaves the door open for only the mega rich megalomaniacs, and those the parties pre-determine as being okay to be preselected for party nomination.  That's not real democracy.  It's all a bunch of crap.  Add in the capitalist element, and these items work to screw over the majority of citizens.  Reliance on capitalism and this 'faux' democracy is a conservative concept that has no basis in reality.  It may sound good in theory, but the practical outcome (when you add in the outside factor of human nature), and everything only succeeds in being unfair and exploitative.  Tell me what's right about that.

We've got a real problem now with the transparency within Government.  Let's avoid the Snowden leaks and how Government is lying about its surveillance of people under the auspice of national security, and focus on something else.  The Conservative Government in Australia has recently introduced changes to the Freedom of Information Act which make it harder to get information out of Government if you are a member of the public.  That act is the cornerstone of democracy and good government.  Any attempt to restrict the freedoms it affords the citizens is an attack on free thought and true democracy.  The Government wants to be secretive and not tell the public the reality about any situation.  One aspect is the new policy on asylum seekers.  Since it's somehow a hot button issue for the public (for some unknown goddamn reason), the government has been unable to stop the boats, but instead just pretend they don't exist.  They don't tell the media or the public anything about any boats that have been picked up, or that are in distress and what not.  One boat apparently went missing and the Government won't tell anyone what's happened to it.  People's lives are at stake and the Government is lying to people and what's worse, is that the public doesn't care.  They want to be wilfully blind to the plight of people dying.  If you think people should remain where they are because of the 'luck of the draw' of being born into the 'wrong country' then fuck you.  You deserve nothing but pain and darkness.

Alright, it's been a busy day and now I've only got an hour until I'm done!  Not bad at all.  Let's call it a day.

Joaquin out.