What Am I Supposed To Do?

People keep sending me information concerning the trouble with American politics and the military-industrial complex. I don’t know why they do this. I’m on a couple mailing lists and belong to various mixed group discussion groups.

I don’t know what I am supposed to do with the information these people send me. I’m not even always sure why I am being given the opportunity to delete one person’s rants. He/she/it came uninvited and spams Yahoo group sites and picked one of the sites that was set up for discussion by a predefined group. But there is no kicking anyone out of a Yahoo group, they may come and go as they choose.

So I see C. Dipwad and I know that it is one of the rants he/she/it posts all over and I feel completely at ease with not reading it.

But when my friends mail me stuff – well then what? There are problems in the world. Yes. There have always been problems in the world. The reason I have never run for President is because I have not one whit of desire to make world-altering decisions. It’s not that I don’t like power, I just don’t need that much of it.

I tried answering and didn’t particularly care for the animosity. I tried not answering and then found that didn’t work the way I thought it would either. I don’t know what is expected of me and I can’t seem to get an answer about what is expected of me. I will agree that the US is not perfect. George Washington wasn’t and no President since has been. I prefer life in the US to any other country, which is why I still live here. Since I live in a free country, I could leave if I wished.

So what am I supposed to do? I cannot, nor do I wish to, alter international policy. I am not, nor do I wish to be, privy to inside double-secret-probation type information. I am not, nor should the world at large be, in on state secrets.

I am unsure why certain details are okay and other details, like crashing into the World Trade Center, are considered not so important. I just don’t understand the whole issue with what my opinion means. I read from the conservative side of the board. I don’t believe much of what is touted as “fact” or “truth” from such prestigious papers as that which employed Jayson Blair. I find their fact-checking too lax and their megalomania too great.

I am sure that all media is biased. Because there are untold millions of bits of information that could be printed and only enough room for a small portion of those bits, the news is inherently skewed.

I wish I could offer a bit-by-bit detailed analysis of world history and why the world is in the mess it is today. I can’t. So, what am I supposed to do?