Statement

June 25, 2010 at 10:10 am (Blogs)

A few months ago, my mother wrote a scathing statement on facebook regarding people’s political statements. In a nutshell, she threatened that anyone on her facebook page that used their bulletins to spout political opinions would subsequently be removed from her friends list. At the time I was taken aback by this passionate statement. I had used my profile for expressing political opinions, albeit opinions that she probably agreed with, and felt like I was personally under attack. Nevertheless, as an experiment, I decided to tone back my political jargon and try to be a little more observant and a little less vocal.
This period of time has allowed me to start exploring the philosophies of the various different political orientations. I can’t be sure that my mother had the same reason that I now do, but I do know that I have gone from mildly resenting the implication of suppression of our collective freedom of facebook spouting, to avidly supporting it. This is not to say that I don’t support freedom of speech in general, because I do. However, I am chronically argumentative by nature. I am also extremely busy. Listening to or reading a persons inarticulate, one sided, destructive political word vomit is physically painful for me. Thus I have decided to stop validating it with my attention. This is not because I disagree with any particular political ideology. In fact, the more I learn, the more I am certain that there is no ‘right’ political ideology. This is a subject that I feel I could write a book about, but suffice it to say that my opinion is that if a person believes any dominant political ideology, they are warping reality to fit their ideals. If a person chooses to live in a warped reality, more power to them, but I will not waste physical or emotional energy being aware of it. This could be seen as an effort to alter my own reality. However, in this context, I have accepted ‘friends’ on facebook whom I would not normally be obligated to pay attention to. That, in and of itself, is an alteration of reality which I am now going to correct.

Have a nice day.