The Liberal Insurgent

[thefool_wa]

I haven't posted here in some time due to some bad experiences a few years back but have been feeling motivated to write so I'm going to use the DU Journal for personal coverage of what has become an ever more tumultuous world. My journal, "The Liberal Insurgent", will be a venue for on the ground coverage of how the national political landscape affects an area that at times seems somewhat removed from the chaos that permeates the rest of the world. I will try my hand at publishing a weekly column I call (1024), 1024 character single subject rants, and maybe even throw in some of the countless pages of fiction I have written over the past five to seven years. My opinions may be radical at times, but they are honest, thoughtful, and occasionally hyperbolized. I am a fan of tragedy, so expect it from the fiction. What follows is the first installment of (1024) which is actually re-runs of my first attempt to do this from just before I stopped spending time here. I was little more angry then, my newer stuff will be more mellow. Following that will be one I wrote recently, then new ones on Thursdays. My first real fore into Blogging....how exciting. I hope someone out there is listening.

(1024)
Activists, I can’t stand them. In fact nothing makes me nauseated quicker than trying to have a meaningful discussion with someone who thinks they are changing the world by using birth control and eating vegetables. While most activists are at least good for body count at protests, most are detached followers with no real ideas of their own operating under the false notion that “every little bit helps.” That is a fallacy. If everyone in the world coupled up and had only one child then we as a race would disappear in a few generations. If our ancestors had eaten only vegetables then we would still be stumbling through the woods wondering why we are being eaten by everything else. Those who will guide change and lead us in the coming years are not the modernized, yet anachronistically displaced hippies of today, but the revolutionaries. A revolutionary has the same desire to see the world become a better place without the delusion that it can be done one person at a time. Real change is brutal, often painful, and requires leaders with ideas and followers who are willing to take true responsibility for that change. You want to be an activist? Stop shopping at Wal-Mart. You want to be a revolutionary? Shut a Wal-Mart down.

(1024)
Enemies, we all have them. While not everyone is possessed of the personality traits required to illicit true hatred out of our fellow man, we all have the ability to choose our own mundane adversaries. One of my two unrelated brothers is my bitterest enemy on the racetrack, even if that track exists only in the virtual world. In the same way we choose our grander enemies. Those who oppose our politics or ideals, those organizations who we choose not to do business with, and those individuals whose downfall we would take great pleasure in witnessing. Herein lies each person’s personal list of enemies, even if they do not know of your animosity or even of your very existence. The complacency bred in middle-class America has pushed these grander enemies aside for the virtual opponents of cyberspace and few have the temerity left to choose enemies that embody ideals we would like to see eradicated completely or hide a true and insidious evil. The time is approaching when the contentment produced by divesting all of our competitive energy into these fruitless endeavors will be our undoing. We all have personal enemies, so take a look at yours and see if you are fighting the power, or just racking up meaningless points.