Museworld on Politics

http://www.museworld.com/archives/001105.html

First, he tries to tell us that he doesn’t consider himself a political person. So, he starts out fibbing. Then he goes on to write some suspiciously clear-headed rant on political participation, thus disproving point one.

I like this piece because I’m not terribly proficient at describing my own views on politics and, when I read something like this, it begs me to the bandwagon.

Highlights:

I guess it’s because I believe in ripples. I don’t believe that every person can change the world. I don’t believe that I can change everything in the world. But, I do believe in the power of ripples. I do believe that my little ripples combined with everyone else’s ripples can result in a change. And, I even believe that in some cases, if my ripple weren’t there, the resulting change from all rest of the ripples might be a little different than if my little ripple had been there.

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…even huge massive systems and realities have a balance point, where it can rapidly tip to one side or the other, and I believe we’re on a balance point now. A little nudge one way or another, even by a very small group of people, can create huge change.

Believe in whatever you want. Buy-in to whatever manifesto lights you up. In any case, the challenge is not the system, the contest, the issue-at-hand. No, the real challenge is not losing hope that your ripple, your power, will eventually affect someone, somewhere. Politics doesn’t live in the papers or on the net or TV; it’s flourishes in meta-space: if no one cared, if no one believed that their view would be listened to, the system would vanish completely.