Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Monday, March 06, 2006
If voting could change anything...(well, you know the rest)
I recently came across a self-important “manifesto” of sorts that I penned back in 1993 or so, and thought it might be interesting to post an excerpt here, re: voting. It begins with a quote from poet Kenneth Rexroth.
Rexroth sez: “Fifty percent of the people in this country don’t vote. They simply don’t want to be implicated in organized society. With, in most cases, a kind of animal instinct, they know that they cannot really do anything about it, that the participation offered them is a hoax … they know that if they don’t participate they aren’t implicated, at least not voluntarily.”
From there, I continued: However, not voting is not enough. It is a purely defensive measure that does nothing to seriously challenge the political status quo. Making a statement by staying home on Election Day may clear our individual conscience…but the two-party fraud continues unchecked, and we all remain silent accomplices to the misdeeds of our government.
So, whaddya think?
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Wiki Update
I haven’t said much lately about my fake Wikipedia page because someone was kind enough to slap it with a “disputed” label and offer a rebuttal on the “talk” page. Also, it appears my (sic) page has made the Wiki Hall of Shame. However, while Wiki’s lack of reliability is becoming well known, my trolls/stalkers have opted to not leave well enough alone...and have continued to tamper. Let me be clear: I never wanted a Wiki page...but if I’m gonna have one, I don’t see why I should allow my meager efforts to be unfairly maligned by anyone with a web browser and an Internet connection. It’s depressing enough to work so damn hard as a writer for all these years with so little result...I sure don’t need potential newcomers to my work dismissing me thanks to a couple of bored kids exploiting Wikipedia’s naïve editing policy. Thus, I have a request: I’d love it if the Expendables would occasionally check out my fake Wikipedia page and use the open editing option to turn it into my real Wiki page. Remove the unverified innuendo and personal slander and replace it with fact (I can supply more details if you’d like). Be sure to check back every now and then because these trolls will likely try to revert your edits.
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