Talking politics

Though I have a problem with what is going on in our country now, I feel I have almost always had problems with what was going on in our country. Considering that is the human condition, that we find something to put the blame on, and if one is a non-believer (or believes strongly that god can do no wrong) then the government is a good second rung in the ladder.
However, being acutely aware that the government is that of the majority – a large number of people-- and always battling with the question, if we aren't all in the end made of the same matter, I found it difficult to put the blame on the government, without taking some of the blame on myself.
And that being an unpleasant thing to have to do, I chose (involuntarily, I think), to become a journalist. Because as the media, you are not saying what you want to, you are saying what the stories want to. And so, if the stories put the blame on the government then, so be it.
And so let us say that through our stories putting the blame on the government is a done thing, then in a democracy, the government must have no problem with being shown a mirror.

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Years of complacence in a being can take away its sheen. Complacency can lead to death, so we can count ourselves lucky, that we got away with a prolonged term of festivities instead.


But it is easier to at least to say you are against wars, than to even say you are against festivities.
So wake up. Because you need to practise how to say it, in a way that doesn't lead to death. 

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