Protest! Resist!

Lately the theme to my thoughts can be summed up with the word "futility", most recently highlighted by the large NUS conference that I worked on.

Students do generally fill me with a feeling of nausea and loathing but the NUS conferences attract a special kind of simmering derision from me that I usually only reserve for vegetarians and fundamentalist faith-heads. The main target of my bile were, as always, the Socialist Workers. Without a doubt they are the most tiresome, hypocritical, boring idiots I've ever encountered. Up there with PETA, any political parties and that odious prick Bill O'Reilly.

Firstly I'd like to state that they're neither Socialists nor Workers. They're nothing more than angry young people that, with the absence of socialism or workers, would be angry at anything else they could get their hands on. You could put a pile of bricks in front of them and they'd find something about said bricks that was infringing their rights as working people. They're not Socialists because they're so militant with their views that they want to impose them on everyone else with force, surely one of the defining attributes of Fascism. They're not workers because firstly they're fucking students and secondly they're at University, a traditionally middle and upper class institution full of people who claim to be salt-of-the-earth workers but would never dare walk into a working mens club or go and bend some metal in a steel plant. Same old Tories? What would you know? You were, at most, still in nappies when the Tories were last in power. Read all the angry books and articles you want but don't claim to have in some way experienced previous Tory governments. I think Thatcher is a moron but I wouldn't dream of claiming to have been personally affected by her horrendous policies of the 80's.

I actually witnessed said Socialist Workers getting angry when it was suggested that the notion of them comparing themselves to the Suffragette movement is offensive and ludicrous. I'm sorry, exactly how does ranting in public with shit placards and smashing up a Topshop store bring you anywhere near those women who fought and died for their cause? You're just a bunch of angry young dickheads who are just angry for anger's sake, with deluded notions that you're one with the working men and are emboldened by the spirit of Lenin (y'know, that guy who gets lauded a lot but was also a mass murderer, along with every other Communist leader that has ever gotten into power). The man who put this notion to them was roundly booed and aggressively heckled but he came out with a corker of a line..

"who are you trying to impress? The public or yourselves? Have a think about that"

Brilliant.

The point I'm getting as is how fucking futile it all is. You'll never achieve anything, you'll just be angry for a few years before mellowing out with age. Of course you'll still hold your views dear but you'll soon realise that the universe, nay, the world, doesn't even bat an eyelid at your actions. No matter what government gets into power, nothing changes. Human nature doesn't change. That's the essential failing of Socialism and its many forms. It forgets that it's human nature to look after yourself over anyone else, to fear difference, to dislike change, to feel superior to other tribes, to fight and so on. Deny it all you want but just take a look at the world around you, humans are a fucking blot on this planet and all your rallying, ranting and criminal damage won't change anything. After you've mellowed with age you'll realise you never achieved anything other than being extremely angry. Eventually you'll die, probably alone, and the world won't even care. It will carry on like usual, destroying itself, and your "efforts" to change whatever you were rallying against will be a forgotten footnote in history at best.

There's plenty of worth causes around the world worth supporting but in the back of your mind there should always been the reminder that nothing ever changes. You could eradicate poverty but something else would replace it. Try by all means but don't fucking lay into people who don't see the use in it. Not everyone gives a crap about your utterly futile socialist utopia and don't delude yourself into thinking your ranting will change that.

You're born, you grow up, you do some shit, wars happen, disease happens, many people die, injustices crop up everywhere and then you die and the world doesn't bat a fucking eyelid.