first stop - only stop : pt 2

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4. the state, the laws
as i mentioned not so long ago, we have a problem with the state and its officers forgetting that they serve us, the people. setting aside the fact that we don't have much of a democracy to speak of, our laws are becoming progressively pettier and we, the people, don't participate. whether this is due to indifference, a lack of faith in our ability to affect change or the former caused by the latter doesn't really matter.

now, we must all fear evil men. but there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men.
- boondock saints

our civilization learned a very strong lesson during the vietnam war, and that is that the youth have real power.
it pains me constantly that this lesson was forgotten almost immediately, and that the youth feel more frustrated and powerless than ever before.

quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

a strange thought suddenly struck me on my way into lipgirl's building: what if, i thought, ordinary people like you and me took over the police force?
there are many of us, because we're the majority. *we* are the people. the state, supposedly our servant, has put in place powerful mechanisms to protect its interests, and those interests no longer match up with ours.

all we'd need to do is be really good policemen. to do the job the way it needs to be done - while simultaneously ignoring the laws that we can agree upon as petty.

revolution? indeed. to retake the state that claims to be for us. to reinstate the mechanisms that currently exist only in theory. to remove the corrupt elements from our government while protecting all the stuff that's as good as it can be.

and to do it all by becoming the state. because *we* are the people.

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i came home from lipgirl's with psychopod - friagram coaxing my soul, and was amused to put to rest an argument between ru55 and SxS about whether or not there's a guy who is paid to move all the garbage bins out to the street before the truck arrives :P

i took one of my team-mates aside for a Chat - i advised him to exercise extreme caution when following captain incompetent's orders and to take little breaks here and there in order to work on projects that are falling through the cracks... there're too many little things that could make the section's work more efficient and are dropped in favour of the big stuff. if it'll make the big stuff happen faster, and it doesn't cost too much to do - why wait?

at least everything i told him is in line with the new SC's attitude :)

i was absolutely broken yesterday, and i had to take a couple of heavy naps in order to recalibrate. i wasn't particularly productive, though.

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from the time i arrived home and until i left for the rollerblading group, i didn't get far away from my pc. one of the main things that took up my focus was the mass of photo albums post-indigo; it's unbelievable how beautiful it was ^_^

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i've just had a slow wake-up at coffeeholic, and it's time to return my sat-phone :D