pea-pod evolution

today i was dredging through old, unread messages in my email inbox and low and behold here is yet another message i failed to respond to.

belated apologies for being so slow in responding. but this message got deleted from the oitribe messages and then lost and now here it is in my inbox, another copy--living and readable.

so anyway, this voting thread/topic was so long ago that i've pretty much forgotten about this particular discussion of voting or voting-not. but i'll try to revive it here because i'm the boob who unknowingly but rather rudely killed it. sorry.

i've decided (if anyone cares) that i'm probably not going to vote for prez this election. my reasons are many, but they are at least well thought out by me this year at least. no one can say i didn 't put any thought into it this time.

unless i change my mind, the biggest reason i probably won't vote is because of my time zone. at two o'clock in the afternoon here on oahu, the polls will be closing on the mainland. hence, i will have a pretty good idea if the election is gonna be close, or if anyone is winning or losing by a landslide.

my vote will be about six hours too late, and unless the tv flashes "one more vote needed from hawaii for kerry to win." i probably won't care. hah. how's that for a rationale?

besides, i've never voted for prez before, for much these same reasons, and if i started voting now, then i would be a flip-flopper. so as horrible as this sounds, i'm staying the course.

about fifty percent of the people in usa don't vote. so i'm not even in the minority. that 50% non-vote pretty much says it all. if votes really did mean that we people really do have the power, then more of us would be voting.

many non-voters are not stupid people, as much as our government propagand would have us believe. as a matter of fact, there's a new book out proving the wisdom of crowds. our non-voting crowd is half the nation. so according to this book, (the wisdom of crowds) it's not an unwise decision with a fifty percent share. crowds usually make the better educated guess (basically, the larger the crowd, the more the guesses become a process of averaging, and the better choice becomes more obvious as the crowd grows larger). it's a proven fact. but this is fifty percent, so i suppose things could go either way.

another big reason: our choice is between a demo. and a repo. what kind of choice is that? where is the independent? the green? the socialist? they aren't even on the ballot in many states, and even if they are, they generally get less than one percent of the vote because the demos and repos crowd them out with mountainous volumes of cash.

demos. and repos. are like two peas in a pod. in this election, these two peas even both graduated from the same pod -- errr university.

but, there is one big difference this time.

one pea is definitely less evil. kerry is the lesser evil pea. if i were forced to vote (like poor Bron) then i would choose kerry. bush is a fake. bush has no power, he is an avatar of the neocons.

bush truly is a pawn. kerry is at least a knight. so if you gotta vote, vote for the knight.

that's one more big reason i'm not voting. because i am not a pawn, and i refuse to be used as one. i refuse to be coaxed, petted, and manipulated by my government or my neighborhood church into believing my votes or my prayers actually make anything in the real world any different at all.

so i won't be a pawn and vote for someone else's choice, or pray for someone else's god or religion just to make myself feel better, or a little less powerless. because that's nothing more than mental masturbation.

i could go on and on but i can tell everyone is asleep by now. just believe me, there are many fatal flaws and failures in our electoral process.

if the governmental system worked correctly, and we could all be positive that all our votes would be honestly and correctly tabulated, and all our votes would make a difference and not go through some strange process like the electral college, and if we had a decent choice for a leader -- one who didn't put his faith in lies, fantasy and religion, then i would vote.

but until those things happen, i choose to live in the real world and not exist in some strange anti-deluvian dream of immortality and equality for all, just because i checked a box and someone else told me they would make sure it all worked out ok if i did.

this is a dog-eat-dog world. that is the true way of nature and evolution. yes, there is such a thing as evolution. it's a killer--evolution. it makes things extinct and god can't do anything about it.

the tragic yet funny thing is, not even a god can prevent our stupid human race from being helped along into its own extinction by some idiot reborn x-tian cowboy wanna'-be who interprets the bible as nonfiction and helps to self-fulfill it's prophecies of revelation by believing it and fanning the flames sparked by some crazy story written by a madman high on maryandjesus. hah..

i very much appreciate your input D. thanks and i hope i didn't upset you too much because of how and what i said earlier to your response. i just gotta say what i feel at the time or else i feel like i'm not telling the complete story.

at least i o u that much for the time you you spent replying to me and i did appreciate and enjoy it.

biting the hand that feeds me is my right as a human. if i want to bitch at my employer for low wages i usually do if it's deserved. it's the human thing to do they might fire me, but it's still my right to bite.

and i bitch about my government. it's my right. they can arrest me if they want, but i still have the right to complain. so i do. and -- believe it or not -- i don't feel or act doomy and gloomy in real life. it's my writing that sounds that way and i can't help it. it's been that way since i was a kid. and but thanks for the compliments.

when we meet face-to-face you'll be happily surprised at my "optimistically pessimistic" view of everyday life, steeped though it may be, in a cloudy haze of misanthropic cynicism.

again, nothing personal, and thanks for keeping this conversation going when all along i thought it was long dead.


xoxo