Integrated Parenting

I am a more than useful member of this society. I am well educated, I create employment. I create and sell stuff to people that makes a difference to peoples lives, and in some cases stops them from dying. I believe in creating opportunities for people so they can create, make and have a better life for themselves. I do my bit for this planet in attempting to raise a functional family, with a functional relationship with my wife and kids – giving up my own self-centered drivers to put time into my kids (time = money in this society – so financially I am giving up many dollars).

I pay my taxes to get my garbage picked up, support police, fire and schools and all the other services I benefit from living here in Canada. I recycle, support local farmers, rather than the big chains (not all the time) for groceries, buy the healthier choice foods – supporting companies that I believe are also trying to make a difference. I don’t do drugs, beat people up, drink heavily, do not smoke at all, and so on. I probably do a few naughty things that I shouldn’t – but that is also normal from what I see!

So I am a pretty normal person trying to exist in my universe within the parameters of what Canada (or any other country) offers me in terms of a government.

So why is it that I had no interest in voting in the Canadian election a couple of weeks ago (mind you if you lived out here you would not really have guessed there was one)? It appears I was not alone as 4 out of 10 (probably also normal) people also chose not to vote.

Why did I not take my passions and support someone who I felt could make a difference – similar to what I believe and do?

Why did 4 out of 10 people in Canada also choose to make this same decision and to not bother?

The reason is simple: There was no one who I trusted and no one I believed could make a difference as the whole system is now about marketing and media and getting your message across to as many people to convert them to vote for you. Oversell and under-promise and under-deliver with corrupt methods of voting, and all the other bells and whistles you get with it. Because it is easy to just make an excuse as to why you did not follow through on what you said you would do.

Even the parties trying to make a difference make no difference whatsoever. I asked Jini who she voted for and the GREEN party was her reply (why was I not surprised!) They did not even win one seat! How could this happen?

My brother-in-law, Ricken tells me the only thing that keeps him going with what he is doing with Avaaz is hope. I believe him. However, hope is just a word. Hope is not an action. Actions are made by the few who control the masses. You cannot give up – I also agree. But you are fighting a system that is a system and that is what it will be forever – unless there is radical change by the people who control us and our lives.

And what about elections in the US?

If Candidate X wins and gets the electoral votes (even if it is less than 50% of the population who actually voted) and Candidate Y gets the rest (even if he gets more of the percentage of the vote than the Candidate X) – then how can the people who voted for Candidate Y be happy? Why should they be forced to be governed by someone they do not believe in or agree with? Even if they are good, normal members of society? How does this create harmony in a society, to create all the values that everyone always talks about?

But getting back to Canada, with everything that is now happening worldwide, surely it is now time for total reform in the way in which we live our lives. Surely the 4 out of 10 people have to be heard now that they are fed up with the way in which this whole system works and is mismanaged on an ongoing basis?

Our freedoms, our security, our family values and so on are continually put at risk, yet we are always told that we have the choice to be able to change things as long as we support what we want. This never happens. So you go back to your own universe and do the best you can with what you are thrown, whilst you are totally controlled by the system as they strip more rights away from you bit by bit.

Bottom line is – the whole political structure of our Western World is destined to failure. What is the point of giving people a choice in life if this choice is then lost? The whole political system eventually will fall apart because of this reason. You are creating divide between the system on an ongoing basis all the time and when you have continual split there is only one result – failure. Failure in our home, our families and communities and all the other nasty stuff that occurs in our societies.

I do not trust anyone in politics anymore unless there is change. I see it for what it REALLY is. A total sham. A marketing-media-money-making venture for people to live out their dreams as iconic leaders that will be looked at in many years to come as history lesson material and game show questions. The day-to-day nuts and bolts of living is discarded over time. Besides who cares in 20 years how many people lost their jobs because of a recession?

If there is a better moment in history for change, this now has to be it – for someone, somebody, something to create another option to the farcical offerings currently available.

I have no idea what it is or how to do it as I am just a normal person eking out a normal living for me and my family. However – no vote no more. My energy is best focused on what I AM DOING AND THE CHANGES I CAN MAKE TO MY FAMILY AND SOCIETY THAT I INTEGRATE WITH. No politician can help me do that.

But until the system changes, I am going to sit on the sidelines and let the continual to-ing and fro-ing go on from growth to collapse and so on….while everyone runs around fighting for the top dog spot and to make themselves as part of the history books as another leader….

Ian