Man with a gun

Here's a little story I told myself on the way to work today.

I started off thinking about the police, and got onto thinking about the argument that you can't criticise the system while you continue to live within it. However I think we are forced to live within the system (or civilisation).

Say I choose to live outside the system. Okay, so I'm feeling hungry, and reckon I'll get something to eat. There's a supermarket. I go in, get something to eat and walk out. No paying right - I'm living outside the system. Well unless a friendly wave, a thank you and a mental note to do something nice for the cashier sometime counts.

As I'm outside eating my food, a guy with a gun arrives and takes the food away, and says something about "ever catching me again", arrest and jail. Well, as it turns out I wasn't that hungry, so I decide to turn in for the night. I walk back to my modest flat and get into bed. I haven't paid rent for a couple of months as I live outside the system. Just as I'm drifting off to sleep, there is a knock on the door - same guy with a gun. Man, he's really beginning to be a problem.

So no, we cannot choose to live outside the system, we are forced to live within it. And for some the easiest thing to do it put on a jacket and tie, carry a bag full of lies and smile, smile, smile, smile that colgate white smile.

** To be fair this wasn't really my story, but a bad mismash of Derrick Jensen with a little Promoe stuck on the end.