Prosoc

Is the world getting you down?
Does the news depress you?
Do you feel no one cares about the problems of the world?
Its easy to feel down, depressed and alone in this world but if you are sick of seeing nothing change then we have the cure for your ailments
Prosoc is a revolutionary cure to this country’s political ailments.
Cynicism and Apathy are diseases that affect thousands upon thousands of New Zealand citizens. It takes root during the early stages of our lives and if it is not cured before a human settles down it can become a permanent state of mind.
Symptoms of CnA are as follows
Believing that humans are inherently evil
Believing that the world is going to shit and there is nothing we can do about it
Believing humans are too stupid to change
Believing the environment is fucked and we’ll never be able to make a difference.
There are many and more symptoms of CnA all of which are just as detrimental to the type of world you want.
The way Prosoc works is by a novel reinfusion of an ancient compound called OnA, Which stands for Optimism and Action. The effects of this new compound are widely cited as the cause for many important social changes in the world.
The way this compound works under Prosoc is to provide a group where OnA can thrive.
Prosoc stands for The Protest Society. Essentially what Prosoc aims to achieve is to become a student society where anyone can come and propose a problem, crisis, law or ideal that needs to be protested for or against. It will serve as a group where students can come to find other people that are just as pissed off about the problems of world as they are. The students can then plan direct protest action to see their voices heard.
Finding other people who share your views provides a fertile ground for OnA to take seed and sprout. We at Prosoc aim to plant the seeds of OnA far and wide so we can truly quell the CnA epidemic that we are currently facing
CnA is so prevalent today that even though 71% of our country believes that the government is working for corporate interests not the interests of the people, there are no major protest efforts.
CnA is cultivated in the news media and the distraction efforts of the vast entertainment circus that surrounds us constantly.
We are made to feel small and powerless so we never stand up for change for fear of standing alone.
We are made to expect nothing of politicians so that it doesn’t surprise or infuriate us to action when it turns out that they lie, cheat and work against our interests.
We are told we shouldn’t whine about our condition as if standing up for yourself is a bad thing.
Cynicism is an excuse not to act.
It is easier to tell a person it isn’t possible than to try and make it possible.
It is easier to tell yourself the world wont change than to terraform the political landscape in your image.
In short Cynicism is the first stop for a coward too spineless to hold themself upright.
Apathy is a defense for the weak.
It is easier to never try to change anything because if you never try you can never fail.
It is easier say “you don’t care” because if you did care you might have to do something.
It is easier to hide beneath your blankets and tell the world outside that you don’t care about the world outside but don’t expect us to think of you as anything other than a child.
CnA is sometimes a conscious decision but it is often times just a state of mind that has been enforced by outside sources for so long that it has begun to be taken for granted.
OnA is mostly a conscious decision and often times a harder one. Though when your optimism and your action creates something that all can be proud of, there can be no better feeling.
“Politics is not a spectator sport” is our motto and that is particularly true in this current day and age where politicians are too corrupt or too afraid to take meaningful action against the problems our world faces today.
The voting system is not enough to ensure our representatives actually represent our actions. If we intend to get anything done we need to be working towards it ourselves instead of expecting others to do the work for us. If you want a slice of the cake you better have had a hand in baking it.
So. If I were to throw the ball in your court, if I were to ask you whether you wanted to act with us, Would you choose CnA or would you choose OnA?
Only one can secure a better life for you and your (future) children.
We all know which one it is.

                                         
PM me if you want to help with setting up Prosoc and getting this going. I want to get this started but I need help from others people. I have a few people already onboard but the faster this grows the faster we will see change.
Optimism and Action!

National party shocked at lack of interest

"Its an unfortunate day when the citizens of our country show no willingnness to secure their own future. I find it a damning indictment of our education system when our people believe that they are entitled to what everyone else has to pay for. With so little interest from the demographics that these asset sales effect most one can only come to the conclusion that they wish to see them sold to foreign companies." Key said to an audience on Monday.
He was, of course, referring to the recent Ministry of Social Development report that stated that:
" ...99% of citizens of the 7 and under age bracket do not intend to buy shares in our power generating assets"
A shocking statement for most New Zealanders as it shows once and for all that this young generation is indeed, the worst generation to have ever have existed.
So what exactly has caused our children to be so entitled?
Most people would say that it is because the majority of kids these days have grown up attached to the welfare state. They have gotten used to free healthcare and education and expect that the government should give them everything.
Some others (probably extremists) defend the children saying "Why should children have to pay for what was theirs before? Wait.. Why was there a report written about this? isn't that a grand waste of taxpayer money? Who the hell are you?"
A classic socialist tactic. Shift the topic of conversation away from the point at hand.  I had to make a hasty escape as the extremist got more and more agitated. It is unfortunate some people have no regard for journalistic integrity.
I continued my way around the school and found a group of children at play. I beckoned them over to have an interview.
"Why is it that your generation doesn't want to pay for its electricity?" I asked politely.
The children looked confused, they had obviously never paid for electricity in their life or anything else for that matter.
"You do realise if you don't buy shares the Chinese will buy all our electricity? Do you really want that?"
At this point one of the children began crying liberal crocodile tears at the thought of paying something.
"Do you think that everything will just be handed to you? Do you even care about your fellow man? Who the fuck do you think you are?"
The interview was cut short by police who apprehended me roughly. It was at this point that i regretted my choice of a trenchcoat as attire. I also regretted being naked underneath it, it sort of put across the wrong idea.
Dispite my continued cries of "don't tread on me!" and "I know my rights motherfucker!" the police continued to haul me into their police car.
While i was in the back of the police car i wondered where we had gone so wrong. When had we got to the point that the young generations felt that it wasn't up to them to pay for our energy generating resources? It might have something to do with the fact that everyone under 18 don't get to vote on policies that will affect them. Or, more plausibly they are all communists who wish to abolish private property.
I might have something to do with the fact they have no money with which to buy them. Although it is not suprising filthy communists don't have the financial sense to actually have enough money.
It might be the fact that the National Party know that asset sales is unpopular and the majority of people in New Zealand don't agree with it. But if that were true then National wouldn't have its 49% majority in parliament
Thats when the police hauled me out. I was back home. "Sunnybrooks Asylum"
"Back where you belong you strange strange creature" the policeman said as the orderlies took me away.



"Don't tread on me motherfucker!"

You are not an individual

I've been told that i'm unique and special my whole life. I grew up on it. The TV shouted it at me every time i went to school and every time i got home. My teachers reassured me of it even though i had never known anything different. It prevaded our culture so thoroughly you would have to live in a cave to not know that you were a special little snowflake with a world of potential in your hands.
I understand why we are told this. Self-esteem is important. You have to know that you are a worthwhile human being to ever believe that you can achieve greatness. So we were told over and over again.
As we went through school the mantra changed. Slowly it morphed from "you are unique and special" to something less patronising.
"you are an individual"
I understand why we were told this too. We were teenagers. we were finding our identity and some of us were struggling with it. We had to be told that we could think for ourselves, that we could and should be ourselves whatever that may be.
As i grew older and i left high school these three things played on my mind.
I'm unique
I'm special
I am an individual.
I understood these to be good things. I understood these to be the pillars that i could always fall back to.
I'm unique
The world has never and will never have a person like me again. My thoughts and actions are new and innovative.
I'm special
What i offer is worthwhile. What i offer is great. What i offer is useful to the rest of the world and the world needs me because i am great and i am worthwhile.
I am an individual.
Everything I am i lay claim to. I have created myself from the ground up. If the world lost me it would be losing a piece of the puzzle that it would never get back. I had something to offer that no one in this world can offer, i just need to figure out what it is.
And these things paralyzed me.
Now i'm not going to blame external forces for my problems and cry "woe is me, everyone has been out to destroy me from the get go!" That is not the purpose of this. I am not looking for sympathy, I'm looking to explain something i realised not too long ago.
I am not an individual.
Not too long ago i identified as a hippy. I liked the term and i liked the connotations. I still do to some extent.
I chose to identify with being a hippy just after i got back from Canada. I felt it explained alot (but not all) about me and it was an expression of my individuality. I felt secure in myself because i had found something that i could desrcibe myself as. In essence i had found who i was.
I found new ideas to set myself apart from people, i learnt new skills to set myself apart, I didn't buy too many new clothes because i was and still am pretty poor.
It was cool to see how i acted, dressed and thought and affirm my differences from other people. Finally i could affirm what i had always told myself.
I am unique.
I am special
I am an individual.
I read somewhere that punks are fools because they think being an individual means dressing the same as their friends. I laughed at that and realised the fool i was being.
Being an individual isn't based on the clothes you wear or the skills you learn. Being a hippy doesn't make me unique if anything it makes me less unique because i attached myself to a group.
Once again i was thrown into not knowing who i am.
I still identified as a hippy from time to time because it felt safe to atleast pretend to know who i was.
I started identifying with what beliefs i held because surely those were my own. These were the problems i had tousled with in my mind. These were problems i sat in bed thinking about for days before coming up with an adaquate answer that i felt safe putting my faith in.
So I became my ideas. I became anti-monogamy. I became anti-sterotypes (funnily enough) I became anti-right wing and i became a lover of people and diversity.
I loved people because they were individuals. They were all radically different from one another and they knew it. They acted differently, thought differently. They were all different. They knew what they were. They had it figured out. I should aspire to be them.
So i talked to as many people as i could. I gleamed from them what their individuality was. What they defined themselves as. I started asking questions that went deeper. Instead of askign how are you i started asking "how is life" on the hopes they would talk about something a bit deeper than "good" "aw alright" etc etc.
I talked to more and more people and more and more those peoples ideas effected me. They changed the way i think, They changed the way i act. The more i learnt the more i changed and i began to feel that i was a fleshed out person. That i was becoming unique, special and most of all an individual.
For a while i felt great about this. When people talked to me they told me how interesting i was, They told me how crazy my stories were and they told me they wished they knew as much as me.
It would have been easy to claim that that was all me. It would be easy to think "yeah i'm interesting as fuck." "yeah i've seen and done alot" "yeah i am really fucking smart"
But in the back of my head i knew i had gotten all that information from the internet or people or books. I knew all those experiences i had were half because of me and half because of the other person who allowed me to have that experience with them.
In the end i realised that I was and still am, just an incredibly porous sponge.
I soak all this knowledge and experience from all around me but just because it is in my mind doesn't mean it is mine.
Slowly i realised that everything i have ever learnt is because of someone else.
It sounds very very pessimistic but its not. I think its really beautiful.
Every word i ever learnt, i learnt by reading what someone else had written. Almost every concept that i have learnt i have not learnt through working out the formulas myself but because i have read or been taught the formula that someone else wrote.
I started to realise that all my beliefs were just an amalgamation of thousands of different lessons i had been taught my various people. The way i act are movements that i copied from movies, tv, people i've seen, friends, brothers, sisters. People.
Hardly anything that i am was created by me.
So i realised that I am not unique.
I am not special
I am certainly not an individual.
Everything i am, I owe to the teacher who taught me. They gave it freely to me and i appropriated it for my own use. I have no right to claim anything i learnt as my own because i didn't invent it. Even if i were to be the person who invented it, every bit of prerequiste knowledge i needed to invent that thing wouldn't be my own.
The invention would be the sum of a thousand inventions before it.
So this realisation taught me a few life lessons:
1) no knowledge can be hoarded. The only reason you know what you know is because other people taught you
2) It is in our best interests to teach others. Like we were taught how to be who we are, so too must we teach others so they can build on what we have given them.
3) I should not aspire to be an individual. It alienates us from our peers. It makes us believe trying to distance ourselves from people who will help us is beneficial to us. It tells us that what we have learnt is a commodity that is our own, that is ourselves. It stifles change by cutting us off from eachother in the constant effort to be different.
This is who i am. Just an amalgamation of thousands of lessons and ideas passed down through generations. I am not an individual and i love it.