Ace Dreamer
06-29-2012, 10:16 AM
Revolutionary - 22/Jun/2012
Who do laws benefit? The rich and powerful. They write the laws. Get them changed when they're inconvenient. Or, if they break them, they can muscle or pay their way free.
The rest of us. We have to live with their leavings. The scraps of meat they cast aside. Is there any surprise we get angry? Break rules, do what we need to survive?
Going into space. Any new frontier. People talk of a "fresh start". Leaving the bad bits, the dross, of the place they came from, behind.
They never do. It's ground into them. Dirt that wont wash off.
You need to be brave, to break free. Risk being unpopular. Risk breaking the law.
You need to be Boskone.
--
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
Who do laws benefit? The rich and powerful. They write the laws. Get them changed when they're inconvenient. Or, if they break them, they can muscle or pay their way free.
The rest of us. We have to live with their leavings. The scraps of meat they cast aside. Is there any surprise we get angry? Break rules, do what we need to survive?
Going into space. Any new frontier. People talk of a "fresh start". Leaving the bad bits, the dross, of the place they came from, behind.
They never do. It's ground into them. Dirt that wont wash off.
You need to be brave, to break free. Risk being unpopular. Risk breaking the law.
You need to be Boskone.
--
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind