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A revolution cometh


There are two types of people here: one who are smart enough to get the real picture from the ground and the second, who rely on somebody's painted image to make a percept. To simplify further, there are people who can think and there are people who need to be fed thoughts. Majority of the people are latter, and if you are a salaried, sinecure and safely ensconced person, a very high probability you are latter.

The depths to which the society is crying for help leaves me aghast. Speechless, spellbound and angry. And helpless. There isn't much I can do sitting other than crib a little more about how bad things are becoming. But it is. Just because I am staring at it like a deer-at-headlights don’t means the facts change. I have never experienced such a hopeless situation as we now find ourselves in. 

And what drives me mad, truly mad as hell, is that this is easily and quickly resolvable. All and only thing required is a WILL to do it. Alas alas, for the spineless conscienceless keepers that we elected are happy to fiddle their thumbs as their populations suffer. Only if more and more people start looking out of their window (not just the browser) and see how the real life is impacted you will see why we are on throes of revolution - much needed and damningly fierce and brutal. Like any battle of elephants, few ants are going to be crushed, in this battle of subsistence and ultra-rich aka The 1%, the clash will be fierce.

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