I wanna complain!

«Complaining is never any good: it stems from weakness.»

 - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

  From 'Bringing up Baby:' "Yes, but..."

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Lucy: «It is all too easy to look on the dark side ... but you also need to see the good things otherwise it will just depress you ... »

Me: Looking on the bright side is all very well (Carpe diem an' all that), but one can't just do nothing!

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There's a rule called the "Second law of thermodynamics[1]," which in it's simplest form could be written:

  "The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum."

But since that's a bit 'opaque,' an easy way to understand what that means is to leave your (very hot!) cup of coffee on the counter for a while... (dum, de-dum, a few minutes later...) and try it again: "Ahhh - just right!"

Similarly, an alarm-clock of the old wind-up type requires regular winding ... or you may be late to work!

Life - all life as we see it on our once jewel-like planet, and in all it's wondrous variety - requires some form of input energy - or it dies.

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So. If we detect a problem - and say nothing, then just as the alarm clock cannot wind itself, that problem is highly likely, to the point of certainty, *not* to get any attention, let alone get fixed.

This would be true of the smallest problem to the largest, and illustrates one'a the most serious negatives associated with religion: the idea that sinners will be punished 'after death.'

This nasty little trap allows 'believers' to say to themselves "Well, s/he will get punished for that - in heaven!" - My comment: what horrible B.S.

Justice delayed is justice denied; that sort'a woolly thinking contributes in no small part to perpetrators getting away with their crimes. Like GWBush&Co, say vis-à-vis their mass-murdering for Iraqi oil, a crime on the scale of Nuremberg.

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So, on the principle of "The squeaky wheel gets the grease," we *must* complain - but more, we must force the issue; provide the energy to 'wind the clock up' and push hard on the only point available to us: our representatives.

It is their job, after all, to do something (right!) for us.

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To labour the point (i.e. looping), I have already mentioned a disconnect, and here is another. Consider Newton's 3rd law: "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." One'a my 'heroes,' JKGalbraith coined the term "Countervailing power"[2,3]. A name given to the so-called 'élites' presumed to be running the world (smack into the CO2 caused greedastrophe®) is "the powers that be."

Any countervailing power the electorate (aka the sheople®) may have been able to exercise has been neutralised, by the modern form of "bread and circuses," namely the mind-numbing avalanche of propaganda, disinformation and other mind-rotting filth spewing out'a TVs almost everywhere, thanks (but "No, thanks!") to Hollywood, Madison Ave. and the (venal!) MSM.

It's time: to restore our countervailing power.

Complain to, demand of your representatives. Soonest. Loud & long.

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PS I leave the last word to Nietzsche:

«To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.»

[The Wanderer and His Shadow.]

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Ref(s):

[1] The second law of thermodynamics

«... is an expression of the universal law of increasing entropy, stating that the entropy of an isolated system which is not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.»

[wiki/Second law of thermodynamics]

[2] «The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!»
[Nietzsche, "The Will to Power"]

[3] «In American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power, published in 1952, Galbraith outlined how the American economy in the future would be managed by a triumvirate of big business, big labor, and an activist government. Galbraith termed the reaction of lobby groups and unions "countervailing power." He contrasted this arrangement with the previous pre-depression era where big business had relatively free rein over the economy.»
[wiki/John Kenneth Galbraith]

My comment: Sadly, countervailing power is noted almost everywhere by its absence. "Big labor" is as good as gone, "activist government" works mostly against us, we the sheople.