Okay, so there are surely lots of reasons why we haven’t been blogging lately (laziness, other work, drugs, etc.). Yet, is it also because we’ve been too busy following the elections and worshipping Obama to write on our blog about real politics?  I say “real” politics, because of course we could write about the election contest itself, but that seems so manufactured, what with all the tens of millions of dollars the candidates spend on PR.  I’m hypothesizing that we’ve been suckered into this world of manufactured politics.  Personally, I think that what hooked me is all the numbers (the delegate counts, the polls, the campaign contributions, etc.), because my obsession with these numbers is just like how I used to follow sports stats everyday, but with an additional veneer of legitimacy attained from the supposedly “democratic” character of representative government.     Well, I’ve had enough of this horseshit.  As I’d say stop watching basketball and go outside to play it with your friends, so I’ll now say it with politics: reject the spectator sport version, and instead go out into your community, participate in direct democracy, and create a better world yourself (and do it now, not waiting a year for our holy savior Obama).  BTW, I was inspired to write this post from reading James Herod’s Getting Free.