The revolution will not be televised.
The news has become completely unbearable. The total, unrelenting coverage of the election is nothing new, but the nature of this election is. It is complete and utter crap. In a time when everything is improving in the world we get stuck with unending lunacy on the tube.
The revolution will not be televised.
Though the media will have you think it, change does not happen in politics. Politics is reactive, impulsive, detached from reality, and has near zero effect on our lives. The State will grow. Politics has no influence on this. The State has grown in one way or another with every president since Herbert Hoover.
The revolution will not be televised.
We’re meant to think politics is important. That it matters in our life. But it doesn’t. The media and most people convey the opposite idea because they don’t know any better, or have never been presented with alternate perspectives. But this election, and the patronizing stupidity that has enveloped it since the beginning, spits in the face of all of our human dignity.
The utter disregard for human action, ability, intelligence, and propensity for self-determination that this election, the candidates, and politics in general show is disgusting. These two candidates do not care about you. They do not speak for you. They are after power. Their goal is to fulfill their narcissistic lust for attention, self-righteousness, and hegemony.
The revolution will not be televised.
Real change happens in the marketplace. Real change happens through men of action–entrepreneurs, inventors, thinkers, creators. Since the Industrial Revolution politics has been becoming ever more marginalized. And like the wild predator backed into a corner, this has made it more dangerous than ever before.
Every progress-throttling regulation or license requirement, life-destroying conflict, and near constant global tension is a result of the State’s need to assert itself. Notice how international businesses and the global economy flourish when left alone. Without the State interjecting itself on the world stage and causing unnecessary divisions war would have already been a thing of the past.
The revolution will not be televised.
All successful revolutions were undertaken by tinkering, questioning, self-interested, and self-motivated individuals. Even more importantly, one of the very few successful political revolutions, The American, was carried out and led by farmers, merchants, and entrepreneurs. This stands opposed to some of the most violent revolutions–the French and Russian. These were led by, or came to be led by, political agitators, politicians, and revolutionary bureaucrats. People interested in power. Individuals guided by truly destructive, irrational selfishness.
The revolution will not be televised.
If you want change, go and create it.
If you see a problem in the world or something lacking–find a solution.
Invent a process, a system, a device.
Build a business or join one that is aligned with your values.
Stay far away from politics.
The revolution will not be televised.