erections for elections

 I have had the chance to attend a political rally of a candidate for the upcoming mayor elections. At this session, the candidate presented his proposals to improve the unsufferable traffic conjunction that always demolishes our humanity when one enters and drives a car. The rules change into a chaotic moral spectrum that can best be described as a battleground.

To transport oneself from point A to point B. Most likely, to a human-made material space that one legally occupies. A flat: an erected building occupying a certain area of the physical world and divided into blocks for individuals to thrive within them. The urban life.

Yet, life can be jolly when nature is blended in and within the urban environment. There seemed to be a vision for the betterment of the city. With public transportation, less cars and parking places the inhabitant can and should enjoy the life outside. It all sounded so good that couldn’t be true…

The most striking aftertaste of the presentation is my inability to trust the upcoming politician. Though, it is not him i am unable to trust rather, it is the lack of trust to the centralized forms of governance maintained under the state apparatus.

No good has ever come from a government. Labour rights were won by the labour itself against the inhumane capitalists. It is the middleman status that justified the existence of the state.

Another obvious example for the inability of the state to educate us is gender equality and its inexistence in our everyday conversations. I believe, sexism is manifested firstly in our thoughts. It may be that our truest self might exist firstly in our thoughts. The enforced projection of a superiority against women and other genders is later expressed behind closed doors and among ears one trusts since society has deemed sexist remarks inappropriate…

Empty promises have become the norm. A pessimistic belief diminishes our hopes for the betterment of our social lives. The things one sees in the ex colonial countries cannot even be conceptualized at this island.

At the very bottom, it is the respect for the citizens that can best describe the admiration one feels when visiting an ex empire. After all, nationalism must require some form of respect for the prospect soldier that will be called to defend his beloved life. If that life is not worth fighting for, nationalism might be less vivid.

The above paragraph might require some further analysis to illuminate the importance of the quality of life in encouraging nationalism to grow. Most importantly though, it is the unquestionable declining progression of the quality of life and the reappearance of nationalists. There can only be one explanation to maintain the above argument: It is the standards that deteriorated. There was and still is no further expansion of the quality of life and the reason might be the lowering of our standards. Even, we may have gained more up to now than what we are willing to lose.

Of course, this might have been encouraged from mass media that presented these gains against a war flattened land which indicated that “you should be grateful this is not your hometown”.

Even though the government and the state are two separate entities that the former justifies the latter’s existence, the separation is not apparently obvious anymore. Besides the ideological connection one feels towards a political party, real change in peoples lives happens within smaller localized communities. Most importantly, among people and interpersonal relationships…

Then, after all these, how can I still trust the so called representative democracy that plague our island? When nothing seems to be benefited besides the class that was created to represent us. When private businesses can control the policy to increase their sales and revenue regardless of the impact any of these will have on us. It is a story as old as time and my frustration will once again reside and use my citizen right to vote.

I will vote because of the old excuse that may be correct. From bad to worse. I do not have an answer but maybe hope hasn’t fully evaporated just yet. The uncertainty and contradictory nature of the analysis and the action has been attributed to my generation apparently and our times. Regardless, it is a creation of the digital realm. Just before capitalism fully enclaves us to a world detached from reality, fully controlled and monitored.