Brenton
I hate my Dad
January 28th 2008 13:44
There’s a protest on. Cars are stopped at the lights, waiting for the protesters to walk by. The first comes by with a Placard and yells “Down with Howard, War Mongering bastard”. The second comes along with a massive placard – “Destroy the neo-fascist evil Capitalist system!” Then a third comes along with a placard and yells;
“I hate my Dad!”
“I hate my Dad!”
It’s a joke, but the message does convey a certain seriousness. The idea that those in our society – protesters, dissidents and radicals are simply acting out of our own anger against authority and fighting outside wars to avoid dealing with our own issues, is, sadly, not redundant.
The difficult thing to understand about righteous battles and causes it that there is no visible difference between the man executing his actions for a noble cause, and a man doing the same for a vengeance. The eye sees the same man, whether he is in Iraq to liberate the citizens in the name of liberty, or just wants to ‘scare up dem sand niggaz’.
Hate Bush? Or just Anything?
This is a scary concept, especially when we regard the important role rebels and dissidents play in our society. It was dissidents who gained women’s rights, gay rights, Aboriginals rights. Dissidents have fought against injustice for many years.
This raises a question; is hatred – rational or otherwise – an essential component of a shift towards positive change? Women needed to hate their oppressors, as did Aboriginals and homosexuals. Without a powerful tide of resentment towards the Howard government, we would have never seen the birth of the Rudd Government.
Do we ever push for what is right? Or does society simply wait for the right moment to push against what is wrong? It has often been said of Australians that we do not vote Governments in, but out. We vote not for but against.
Does humanity really have those who fight for what is right? Or are we just a pack of lost kids waiting to seek revenge on the eternal omnipotent authority figure who consistently slips like mist through our fingers?
Image by TJ Scenes Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
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Comment by Damo
I classes rebels and protestors as mentally ill thus avoiding the issues to be fought over.
The issues is only as valid as the persons motivations for taking a stand. Is for personal gain or just youthful angst?
No one can really say how pure their intentions are as even selfless acts have been accused of being selfish.