Sitting Pretty

 

Photo taken May 06, 2011 Yonge St, Toronto

Open Letter to Mr. Ignatieff

Mr. Ignatieff

I find you an interesting person and I'm sorry that the conservatives are in control of our country now. It is unfortunate and I hope they do not do irreparable damage to the pride we have in the Canada we have known.

It seems that the timing was not right for you to become a cosmopolitan face for our country. I did not vote for the Liberal Party as I reside in the very NDP riding of Trinity-Spadina and I believe Olivia Chow was and still is the best choice for our riding. As well, I support Jack Layton and many of his ideas.

But I want you to know that if you had become Prime Minister of Canada, I would have felt proud to be a Canadian, instead of ashamed, as I feel now. The insidious conservatives have foiled the masses through a shameless TV smear campaign and consistent use of elusive politi-speak. The Conservative leader is a cold fish, no worse, a snake, and has a deceitful manner and an insidious need to control that borders on personality disorder.

I don't believe he wishes the best for every Canadian. I'm sure he believes himself to be a supreme leader, superior to the average person, and doesn't believe that the Canadian people know what is best for them which is how he justifies his shameful and deceitful behaviour. He may be correct. Canadians don't know what's best for them. I'm only sorry that the conservative leader is smarter than most of us.

When I meet a man like you, although indirectly, that is worldly, humanitarian, intelligent and passionate, I am once again proud to be a fellow citizen of this country. I wish you the best and would like to believe that you will surface again somewhere in the public eye, where you can do some good with your skills and dignified character.

Canada needs people like you. Thank you for doing your best in the past few years for Canada. It has not gone unappreciated.

Sincerely,

Camille Crawford

Cult Of The Waning Moon

Warning: Below is a grimness you may want to avoid.

My grumpiness gets all tied up with the fact that politics is such a tangled mess. Although I want to write something intelligent and inspiring... the truth is I have no hope. The only things that make me truly angry are mayor Rob Ford and prime minister Stephen Harper. All else is meagre and possibly just simply annoying.

My darkness is this lack of hope and it is possibly the most negative thing I possess. It is exacerbated by the fact that I cannot find work that gives me a paycheck unless I sell my soul to the corporate devil. Well, that and change my hair colour. Running a small business with my own blood sweat and tears is positively out of the question because then I'd have to jump through so many hoops and obtain so many seemingly unnecessary permits that after it all I am left with nothing to expend on my product. Well that and I cannot compete with China and its populace of abused citizens working for 13 cents a day.
In answering my own question "What do I want?" I find myself in a mire of helplessness that drains me of enthusiasm. Yes, I wanted to live in a world that had human dignity. That 'want' was dashed by capitalism. I want to live meagerly, yet comfortably in the city where my family and friends live. Although I am managing to still do this, the possibility of continuing to do so is waning because I cannot find a way to earn a paycheck without selling my soul. We are all required to sell our souls. Those that do not are outcast. What kind of world is this we live in?
I "wanted" to help fix the problems our parents made in destroying this planet. Since we've learned that driving cars and burning fossil fuels is killing us all and everything around us, I sat up in my seat with hope that I could be a part of fixing it. That I could feel useful as the person I am with my soul and haircolour intact. But both the mayor of Toronto and the Prime Minister of Canada are taking us back into the problem and out of the solution by canceling all the green initiatives that were so difficult to get instituted to begin with.

Whatever, I'm a complainer and a lazy bum because I don't work. I'm a troublemaker because I ride a bicycle and don't drive a car and I'm a fucking anarchist because I 'want' the stupid economy to fall. How else can we fucking let go of what is killing us and build again? The politicians won't let it happen. The corporations won't let it happen. I seethe and I rage and then I fizzle out and lose hope because what can I do? Tell me I am wrong but I think we are fucked.

Meh... maybe it will pass. Being a true Aries I defer to Scarlet... "Tomorrow is another day."

May there be many tomorrows and may my quiet and helpless rage find a way to resolve itself.