Lonely at the top

I've come to a conclusion and not one I can apologise for either. There are a few people who see what's going on and the rest walk around taking anything that comes as reality. But once you realise and try and help the others they don't want to know. I give up. It's a waste of time being able to see what's behind so many stories, rules and other nonsense we get thrown at us by our governments and media and try and convey it to anyone else as they don't believe you.
The others who know don't need telling, and being in the minority and unable to enlighten all but a few of the majority may as well keep it to ourselves and realise we are the visionaries in a partially sighted society. Politicians know this of course, and exploit it by making the rules that constrict us in the first place, convincing all but us few it's to help us and look after the disadvantaged (like the asylum seekers for instance). In fact cheap underground labour means minimum wage laws can be broken by unregistered workers, and whatever unpleasant reasons the Labour party have in their leaked policy of encouraging immigration from lesser developed countries it's not to improve the lives of the current residents.

David Icke explains much of this mechanism, but in a more optimistic way than me, believing in realising it's an illusion will break it. No, unfortunately people like their prison. As he says, if you tell the public you are helping them they tend to believe it. Combine that with three main parties with bearly a policy between them that is different (European Union, Interest rates, fuel taxes etc etc) they make sure that they give the impression they'll do something different whereas in practice things like public toilets and car parking fees are treated the same by most councils in London, ie no and yes in that order. Any tiny party with a different policy is laughed at by the three main parties and will never get more than a few politicians elected despite having a lot to offer in the case of the UK independence party at least.

But I've given up preaching and teaching. If you see a turkey heading for the slaughterhouse you can try and tell them to cross the road, but like trying to teach a dog Russian they won't understand. I admit if I can break the odd rule here and there I do, as we all do really (yes, even someone paying their builder in cash is committing a crime) but we all do it. I just don't pick and choose as selectively as some as I have total contempt for certain rules and I don't mean paying VAT as at least there's a reason for it. Of course I can't say which rules I do disagree with as I'll be incriminating myself, but I will say not one does anyone any harm. Which illustrates my original point perfectly. Many laws cause more harm than they avoid. Think about it, many laws vary from country to country and over time. Oral sex. Perfect example. What harm has that done anyone? But in half the US states as far as I know it's illegal. How the bloody hell is that supposed to protect anyone? And do it in Iran and you'll more than likely lose it as a result.

That is one example of a more obvious harmless law to break, and there are millions of others if I bothered to count around the world. Bollocks to them, and if they made theft legal tomorrow I still wouldn't do it. Common sense is far more useful than laws, as those who break them still do, they just risk punishment. Unless like Malaysia or Thailand where you could be executed for most crimes they will continue to do so. Human nature. Like any laws. Remove Britain's speed limits for a week and everyone will nearly all drive at the safe speed for the conditions. Make murder legal and very few people would kill someone as a result. Anyone who is evil or crazy enough to kill isn't going to need permission before they shoot their wife or mother in law. The penalty for murder has always been severe and the people who commit it either so unstable they wanted one person dead and never again or are evil career criminals who put no value on human life. Laws have no effect on either, and I suggest morals will rule a country better from the few I mention educating the many so the ones with brains to think will choose not to hurt others, rather than not in case they are punished. And if you put all the career criminals on a few islands as they did with Australia, there'd be no one else to rob or attack and they'd be free but unable to do what they did before and have little choice but learn other ways to keep busy. It made Australia what it is, apparently a hotter and larger version of Essex, but far more civilised than many places and not full of criminals.