Today I went through my favorite online newspaper www.boston.com and confronted a title: France on strike.
In the above photo, the old women with her drawing wanted to say "When I was your age, I was already working", and a girl replies "When I am your age I'll still be working."
While a pitiful feeling spiked up in me when seeing the picture, I found out that it is subjective to favor either the strikes or the policy. Yes, even in Singapore we must admit that the seventies are still collecting cans and plastics to survive and a few of American take the train stations as their houses.
Do you think Australia with a huge welfare package for seniors is a better choice? I bet a no if you are color (either Asian or Black).
What will then the policy-maker think? IMO, they favor the majority, they do things for the entire economy, and not for any specific individuals. And many of individuals are affected by the policy.
"It's my right to stop working" and "It's my responsibility to maintain the economy." It's inevitable.
Since then, when two minds are not going to the same direction, no solution is obtained until one agrees to give way.
People think they are living in democracy when they are going on strike. It is actually not. Democracy is when you have a choice: whether you should go on strike or not.
And thus, the current world-wide claim of democracy is just a way of bullshitting. I'm not interested.
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For long, I'm thinking of patriotism that many have claimed to possess. They are now living overseas and branching their business back to their home country. If the war had to happen, they would rather stop the business and take care of his own properties than enlist with the rifles and go to the front. They goddamnit must be good liars.
I don't care.
As for me, patriotism is not what you shout out loud, not what you write to show, not what you tell people and all that. It must be the love and the care we take for the smallest things around us that can help to appreciate larger and less tangible things: friendship, family, hometown, the school, the people... That's what I care for.
