Social Muzzling

Sometimes in life, we are forced to keep quiet not because it is the right thing to do, but because the potential ramifications of telling the truth are not manageable. The youth of this nation were raised on a "Canada" that hit it's hayday from 1992-2001 in which Canada was ranked as the number place in the world to live according to the United Nations Human Development Index. This country does not exist and has been replaced with a nation of bickering and backroom collusion between parties.

We live in an age where the government has prorogued parliament twice because they did not feel like working with their counterparts. Therefore, we the people are stuck paying these men and women that do not have enough respect for their constituants to "try" even to do their jobs. We have a government that goes out of their way to try to make everyone else look like scumbags and terrorists, all the while wasting time, money, and any respect other nations might have had for us. Despite this, the opposition parties have been bending over backwards to make sure Harper's conservatives stay in power, to avoid an election.

We also live in a time when a person can't reasonably complain about the problems in everyday life publicly, due to the fact that everyday life usually involves companies that either employ us or our friends and family. We live in an age where more and more of the wealth is possessed by fewer and fewer people. In my hometown, one company owns dozens of companies through an intertwined web. And these companies are all in different businesses, limiting the subjects that can be discussed without extreme censorship.

A "Canada" where people live free with the greatest social programs in the world is starting to sound like it was all a pipe dream, when in reality, it existed only 9 years ago. Woe is man in all his ignorance.