The gravy train has been swapped out for the diarrhea wagon

I know the gravy train has left the station and has no intention of ever returning here. I've only been writing about it for several years now so I'm not going to gloat, nor piss and moan about it. But I'm certainly growing ever more impatient with this foolish waiting game. We appear to be in some dancing on eggshells while somehow walking a tightrope phase of things. Is it possible we have hit a stalemate?

I know, from the conversations I have with friends, family, and random strangers, as well as call in radio shows and random eavesdropping that people have no faith in politicians, corporations, banks, or any other thing that once was good (banks excluded, they've not had any history of ever being good) but is now an institution. Then in the other hand the masses are completely ignored by the politicians whom, are said to, work for all the "people" who have lost their faith.

Everybody can see there is zero credibility in a person all up in arms about this, when they've just gone and done this. Yet, somehow, these things continue to happen as if nothing happened yesterday as though some kind of memory wipe happened overnight.

why is that?

An opaque chameleon in the transparent world

I have cut myself off from the world lately. It's been weeks since I read any news, and I've barely left the house. It's been a very deliberated effort to try to listen to the world from my inner ear... I don't feel I missed very much, and I don't feel any differently now than I did then. I guess things just don't change much in that short a timeframe...

I do this in the hopes of finding my reinvention, just as I have done so many times before. I can only play the role of cog in the machine for small bursts of time before everything falls apart. It's easy to lose things that you never actually had, by that I mean faith.

Freedom

I live in the cage of your beliefs. It's a world I neither built nor chose to reside in, yet there it is, everywhere.

It's a world void of justice or harmony where terrorist boogeymen and bankers collude amongst themselves buying politicians at wholesale prices. Every perversion is just a couple of channel clicks away to keep you comfortably distracted and unfocused on the goings on that are going on.

I am no longer a number in it. Statistically, I am nobody: neither employed, nor unemployed.

I'm expected to pay taxes with money I cannot create out of thin air, to those who can create money out of thin air to pay for services I've never used while being denied access to the only services I actually need, and to pay the salaries of people I did not vote for. I get to pay extra so that tax exempt child molesters are allowed to live in sanctuary while selling redemption and preaching morals from a decaying pulpit.

I pay for corporations who don't hire me to pay out bonuses to those who can't read the writing on the wall, and failed to comprehend that nothing can be status quo forever and continue to thrive endlessly unadaptive, yet persist in using moronic phrases like 'think outside the box'.

My past labours are the cornerstone in an ivory tower that security guards are paid minimum wage to prevent me from entering.

Many out there can see it, many out there talk about it, but still everybody appears to be content to find their place within it. Mindlessly they latch on to some old cliché about voting, or boycotting, or protesting without coming to terms with the fact that these avenues all lead to exactly where we are now, but with less energy than we had before we travelled them. Unsuspecting or unaware that this energy drain means these avenues are working as intended.

What is freedom?

Freedom is not something that is given away, freely. Freedom can only be earned, or stolen, and those of us who've been sold the lie that we were born into freedom have not been earning it, so it can only stand to reason that it is being stolen from us.

-DIrtyKID©