Politics

Politics has always been an area of life I find hard to comprehend. I realise that it occurs constantly in all that we do and say, and trying to avoid itis impossible, yet the whole idea I find very complicated.
Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution is a subject I do however find incredibly interesting. When I was younger, I always used to ask people, " if we evolved from monkeys, how comes the monkeys in the zoo and thewild haven't evolved into humans yet?" When the theory was raised, it sent me back to a time in my university kitchen, watching the boys I live with running around drunk, tackling eachother to the ground, passing out and stuffing food down their throats like primates. It made me think, how much difference is there between humans today and our monkey ancestors?
I tend to look it at like this, we still do the basic things to survive, we eat, we drink and we reproduce. To do these things as a primate you need to hunt, find a source of water and a mate. In my eyes, we still only need to do these things to survive, we have just made them incredibly complicatedby introducing money, which we get from work and going to university, and complicated dating techniques, why can't it all be based on the smells we emit to possible partners?
We are still all aiming toward the same thing, we live and we die, we just need to survive inbetween. A bleak outlook on life I agree, but really, has itnever crossed your mind that we would be happier as monkeys?
The quote, "Man is born free, yet everywhere is in chains", from Rousseau has always spoken to me. We are all born into this world and our parents have hopes and dreams for us, yet we are all under a form of control thatrestricts us doing what we really want! So, why do we obey the state? Referring to the Government and Politics book, when a government has legitimacy, it does not necessarily mean that it is the right way to be ruled.
In a time of recession, and massive job loss, Gordon Brown sits in Parliament making decisions for our future, with no money worries himself. As Marxists would argue, there needs to be a revolution against the unequal distribution of wealth. We are under afalse class conciousness in which we have elected these people to control our futures, with the impression that they will make things better, so why is this happening? Perhaps we need a charismatic as opposed to a rationallegal type of authority to restore the hopes of the country, well at least mine anyway.