It's not you, it's me

Monday, July 5, 2010

I used to rail against "society" and it's constructs. "They're stopping me from being who I want to be man..." But as you get older you, hopefully, get wiser. I'm realising that "society" has very little to do with who or what I am, and really doesn't care that much. Society is mostly people like me who have no idea what they're doing and are just trying to do their best. Whether others choose to go about that in the same way as me isn't important.

We have some pretty simple rules in our "society", which can be boiled down to one rule really, don't do anything to anybody else that they don't want you to do. That's pretty much it. Other than that there's plenty of room for you to do or be whatever you want.

There are of course injustices, but these days I'm saving my outrage for the big ones. Namely when corporations or governments don't follow the one simple that the rest of us are expected to follow. When governments act unfairly or unjustly, when banks prey on the weak, when companies lie and steal for profit, these are all worthy of my outrage. But as far as "society" is concerned... Society is just people like me.