I’ve waited for the anger and the bitterness on my newsfeed to die down somewhat before committing this into a readable form. The way I’ve watched friends turn on each other has left me feeling rather hollow at times, but I have always trusted that people are more than an X on paper and that they will remember why they loved each other in the first place and return to being the friends they once were.
It’s true that the saying goes you should avoid the discussion of religion and politics but that awfully PC attitude is surely outdated enough that we can ignore that now.
Truth is, it doesn’t matter who sits in the chairs in a hall in London. We need to stop putting such emphasis on some guy in a suit and his cronies and start thinking about how we forge our own future in this land of ours.
We can scream ourselves silly about education and immigration, we can huff and puff about health and road tax, we can brick ourselves up mentally from the housing issues and limp on forever about disability. Of course we can.
Thing is, that’s what serves those who proclaim to serve us. The officials and the middle class media love it when we piss and moan without ever doing anything. It provides them with endless columns of fluff and ensures that no action can ever be quoted by the oppositional parties.
What if we stopped, just for a second. What if we planned an actionable, mutually beneficial ‘to do list’ of the things that would allow us to take back our society from the people that claim to know what is best for us and decided this for ourselves?
It wouldn’t really require anything more of us than to stop believing everything we hear and to start doing something for ourselves.
What follows is a list of things that is by no means exhaustive and is stuff that most of us will do at least some of every day.
- Walk more.
- Buy from farm shops.
- Share costs and buy in bulk.
- Share and exchange skills.
- Get to know your neighbours.
- Educate your children.
- Educate yourselves.
- Donate and recycle.
- Cheap is good, free is better.
- Save water.
- Save money.
- Learn self defence.
- Appreciate more – own less.
- Cook and bake more.
- Be creative somehow.
- Grow plants and flowers.
- Feed the birds and save the bees.
- Know your rights.
- Know your responsibilities.
- Look for the positive.
- Protest.
- Ask for help.
- Petition.
- Write letters.
- Make up your own mind.
- Love people and animals.
- Be clear.
- Be calm.
- Avoid stereotypes.
- Respect stuff.
By doing these things, we create a society that doesn’t rely on its government but instead has a government that relies on them. We voted them in. They are ours to direct. It is not and should never be the other way round.
They cannot make policies that will damage the people. They should not discount groups within society. We are the difference.
Stop moaning. Stop venting anger at the people you love. Start writing letters, start emailing, start organising, start protesting and petitioning. Start forming the society they could only ever dream of. Start calling the shots.
Rise up. Together.
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