2005-06-27 22:50
by Vasil KolevWhat a rain that was…
I decided to write up what’s in my head, let’s see what will it be…
(a short detour – there’s another idiotic quarrel, this time in Veso’s blog, on the digital signatures, etc. I decided not to answer any more – there isn’t any meaning in so much talking because of a few retarded and unclear laws.)
This should’ve been written before the elections, to clear up my position, but I didn’t feel like it.. But now it’s raining outside, and I have a pile of good books to dig in, and it’s better to finish this before them :)
Looks like everyone is used to the idea of delegating responsibility. That’s what the elections are – you are delegating the responsibility for the ruling of the state in the hands of some people. There are some problems, though…
First, there isn’t anyone who can be trusted for something like this. Most of our politicians are proven good-for-nothings, and today in a conversations we were unable to think of any honest politician in the moment… Not that anything has changed in the last 15 years, it’s just that everyone proved that they can’t do it :) It speaks volumes that there isn’t any re-elected majority (also the results from the last elections say a lot, especially the low activity of the voters, in spite of the propaganda).
Second, there isn’t a lot of clarity in what’s the exact power that’s given to those people, and what are their responsibilities – I won’t be amazed if a lot of people had voted just to take part in the lottery :) For example, most of the people don’t really know what’s coming when we join EU, and that’s an integral part of most parties’ programs (this isn’t a topic that I feel like scratching now, but whomever is interested can see the project for the law for the electronic trade and the directives that led to it, as an a simple example). Most of the people are directly manipulated with beer, kebapcheta (that’s not really translatable :) ), lies, and free projections of the third episode of “Star wars” (a fun task for someone – to create a compilation of all the crap that was used in the campaign). I again remember “moral influence”.
Third, in the end everyone expects someone to fix/do him. I have this feeling that a lot of people are holding their toes by default…
And the fixing is our own business. The state is the people in it, not the band of marauders that thing that they’re ruling it. There’s one way to solve this – everyone to do something that betters the situation a bit in an area in which he/she is capable. The saving of the world isn’t a full-time job – it’s a hobby for all of us that want a better world :) You cannot live from/on it, but it’s worth living for. You’ve probably heard of “The rescuing of the drowning is in the hands of the drowning people themselves”?:) Well, we need to find a way to swim, not to wait from the lifeguard to came and pull us out.
One idea for everyone – find something you don’t like, and spare some time for changing it. It doesn’t matter what it is, and no one is making you do it – but in the end something good might come out of it :)
(which reminds me, I have an idea on a course for style, writing and in general Bulgarian language in FMI. I still have no idea who can teach it, but I’m thinking on writing an initial synopsis. What do you think?:) )
I really hope that either there won’t be next time that I write on politics, or I’ll have ideas on fixing the situation. I hope that it’ll be the first :)