So I was reading this post here by
Fidelis: “Free
Range" chicken not actually free range where it's pointed
out that having the 'Free Range' label on your carton of eggs is
essentially meaningless, because there is no set definition for what
'free range' actually means. But we will tend to 'fill in the blank'
with what we think of when we hear 'free range' which is something
like chickens running free in a pasture and having a nice life while
laying nice eggs for us. But it has shown to not be the case, where
you can see a picture of some 'free range' chickens in his blog, it
is obviously nothing like that picture that comes up in your mind of
chickens running free, happy and healthy.
Because everywhere you look, it's a
lack of standards that is allowing for many abusive things to exist
in this world. Because we haven't stood up for what we accept and
allow. For the most part, most of us take no action whatsoever in our
political system. It's not something we learn about or how to
participate in in our school system. Politics is presented as
something boring and tedious and complicated, something that nobody
wants to be involved in, especially in this day and age where
attention spans are almost non-existent and our political system is
insanely bogged down by bureaucracy and, well, 'politics'.
And why would anyone want to get involved in it, when it
isn't about actual administration, but more about
flinging opinions and competing for interests at the expense or
disregard of others? We've got quite a nasty spiteful thing going on with our two party system. I'm sure that has a lot to do with why so many
'hate politics' and don't want anything to do with it.It is really strange though how we have come to generally view politics as the last thing we'd want anything to do with, when it's politics that shapes our very reality and world that we live in, which for the most part is not cool. The vast majority of humanity slaving away for no reason other than to make a very small amount of people unnecessarily wealthy. I guess it's because we have accepted ourselves as just not a part of that process, I mean, as children you generally don't have a say in anything, you're not allowed to make decisions, the parent is the one in control, in power, and so you learn to be subservient, and accepting of the idea that you just don't make the decisions.
But it's really just through our
collective acceptance of this, that we're so 'powerless' within the
system. That, and the fact that we are bombarded with all kinds of
misinformation that makes it incredibly difficult to make heads or
tails of just how to do things in this reality. But it's really not
as difficult as it seems, if we stick to the basic principle of
always working to benefit all life rather than harm it. It really is
that simple, and from there decision making becomes a lot easier. For
example, we all know basic things like our food shouldn't contain
toxins, and that the functioning and quality of our ecosystem is
necessary for our survival and quality of living. I mean, that's why
we're buying 'free range' isn't it?
The first step within this is to set the standard of our own Human Right to life support which is outlined within the Living Income Guaranteed proposal, to change the point of life from a struggle in a life and death gauntlet for survival, to support all of us so we can start to focus instead on the problems at hand instead of merely our own day to day survival.
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