What is there left to believe in?

Religion becomes evermore irrelevant as it meanders aimlessly through the wilderness, dodging each scientific or political pitfall with the same old answers: faith. But to have faith in something, it must give something back, and religion seems to give less and less back to communities and individuals, more comfortable in peering down from the moral high ground than hauling unfortunates 'up' to their level. Indoctrinated children preach mindless words they are taught to recite but not to understand, to please their parents who fear, as their parents before them, that any other path will lead to damnation.

Politics? It has, too, become less progressive, at least in much of the western world, than at any time since the Renaissance, with Gordon the Clown vying for positions of toughness with an eton muppet who is out-Blairing himself, learching so deep into presentation-politics that he's forgotten what he should believe in. And therein lies the problem. These people we (or perhaps 30%) of the population have voted for are ducking the resposibility vested in them: to make decisions based on their beliefs. Except when a politician shows any semblance of real opinion, perhaps because someone daring to go against 'party line' is so rare, they get shot down by a lazy-daze media, many of whom use Google where once real journalism may have been.

In patches, humanity is the only thing left. But the patches are being spread further and further apart like dots on some giant consumer balloon that is expanding endlessly, making any real community, evermore difficult to organise. Even as populations increase across the world, the ability of communities to organise and control their own destinies is being ever-diminished. Perhaps the powers that be feel that allowing communities to decide things for themselves spells disaster for them. Which is porbably true, and so it should be. For a small group of people having the power to make decisions that affect the vast majority is fine, as long as they have the interests of the majority at heart, and not the bank accounts of the few.

So what to do? Fuck all, like everyone else. Or, perhaps, sue your bank. That's always fun. www.consumeractiongroup.com