Was it me, or did anyone else notice that the politicians were all corrupt in the JossVerse? Fist glimpse we have of it is with the Mayor. Sure, he cared about Faith in a sick twisted fatherly love, but he was still disturbingly germ free and evil. The Mayor was ambitious, not in a mainstream political agenda. He wanted to skip the pursuit of being President and just transform into a giant snake who could literally eat the President and other various officials.

On Angel, we saw many corrupt officials from Senators and police officers just to name a few. All this has a meaning, right? Could it be Power Corrupts? Have to be evil to gain power in the first place? Could some of these people have been like Angel and went into it with good intentions, only to be turned in the end? I prefer that theory myself.

As a social worker, one of my dreams was to change the world. I was going to do it. I was special. There had to be something that ALL these people were missing! It could and would be done. After a very short time in the trenches, I discovered that you couldn’t beat them. All I was changing was things in someone’s life. I couldn’t change the laws or convince the HMO’s that their practices were unfair at times and they should change them. If you wanted that kind of change done, you had to go to the political route.

I thought of running for office before. It was a time where I was tired of the same old same old. People were suffering and I was so tired of waiting for someone to give them relief. Then I remembered all those times in College where I had gotten drunk etc. and figured, I really don’t want stories flashed on the front page of a newspaper. I don’t want my family bothered. I don’t want all of our skeletons brought out of the closet for all to see. So instead, I did some lobbying. Frightening insight into way a state government works. 

I saw how tired some officials were while other older ones just sat in the same place doing the same thing. They were part of the problem. I can see how they would have started out with good intentions and ended up letting the power corrupt him. It isn’t difficult to do. Think about how sad it is, day after day, to want to do things, but you can’t get through the political bullshit. It would depress the hell out of me, and to get power to suddenly make some of your ideas happen, well that would be like a drug. You want more and more and more of it. Taking all you can till you suck it dry and move on to the next thing.

Once you get power like that, it is difficult to give up. It would take a lot for me to give it up. I would use the power for good of course, but it would be my definition of good. What is good to me may not be what the definition of good is to someone else. See what I mean?

I still do not know if there is a true good. I do believe that we live in a wide range of gray. There is more gray than there is true white and more gray than black and why do I sound like a Bob Ross painting show? Next I will be talking about making happy puffy clouds or showing you how to make leaves on your trees.

Basically Power corrupts. The machine is politics. The purpose of the machine is so that we can further destroy purity and anything else of value that is left in the world. We take it and shove it in the machine, where it is debated, torn, fought over, blood stained, changed, altered, and misunderstood. It comes out as something that looks nothing like what it did before it went into the machine. The Senior Partners is the government. The Black Thorns was the machine. And me? Well, I am the screwdriver in the gears occasionally. See, I found out you can eventually change the world, you just keep fighting.

Jaster: Great Read Keep it up
(14.09.2004, 15:01)