Democratic Contrariness

In a world driven by the manufacture of guns
any government worthy of trust
would know better than enshrine conscription.
The only place that that leads is to greater opposition. 

Essentials In Schooling In Disenfranchisement

Because a focused adult will always be a dangerous adult. 

Political Post Modernism

It seems that in the modern world
there are no democracies, no places
where citizens decide with each other
how they should rule, and be ruled, together.

But we do have a wealth of oligarchies,
each one of which insists
that it needs our vote to sustain it.

'My' Job?

I was raised to blur the difference
between an apt humility and accepting
condescension. I am often unsure
about the values of the system I follow.
But something remains clear throughout
-all talk of 'my job' or of jobs being the property
of any nationality, region, country, or ethnicity seems silly.

Some self employed can talk about 'my job'
-they set out their contract with themselves
to do what they do, for the money they do it for
-often as part of a well networked service industry.

Also all the jobs done by workers
within a co-equal co-operative structure
are the property of those that do them. 

But otherwise jobs, and even more 'careers',
are the intellectual property of employers
who contract out remunerative roles
to would-be employees where the role
is the tasks set out within a physical space
-all of which the employer owns outright.

The contract is always more on the employers terms
than those of any employee, though some employers
may grease the wheels of industry by making it
that some employees find esteem in how they work.

Equally many more employers disown their role
of being employer through employment agencies
and encourage 'the employee' to self shrinking
pride and hubris in their ownership of the job,
thus allowing employers, generally,
a greater reward for their detachment.

Onwards And Upwards

When life seems pointless
encourage yourself by repeating
what Sisyphus repeated to himself
whilst on his toils; 'Onwards and Upwards....' 

Imbalance

All the gratitude in the world,
as shown by all forms of life
that have ever occupied the earth, combined,
would never be enough
to outweigh all the humbug of humankind.

Consistency

Anyone can be a fool on April Fools Day.
But it takes special talent to with-stand
being fool for others life long, and all year round.