If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.
Interpretation
Individuals are responsible for their circumstances, especially in relation to civic engagement.
This quote by Moby emphasizes the importance of participating in the democratic process, suggesting that if individuals choose to be cynical and disengaged, they may ultimately suffer the consequences of their inaction. It implies that by failing to vote and actively engage in society, people are complicit in the deterioration of their own work and living conditions, reflecting a deeper connection between civic responsibility and personal accountability.
In practice
In a speech about civic duty, you might say, 'As Moby pointed out, if we are cynical about voting, we may end up facing the consequences.'
So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of.
But when a manβs religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.
I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?
There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.
And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.
I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.
We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives.
Inequality also distorts our democracy. It gives an outsized voice to the few who can afford high-priced lobbyists and unlimited campaign contributions, and runs the risk of selling out our democracy to the highest bidder. And it leaves everyone else rightly suspicious that the system in Washington is rigged against them - that our elected representatives aren't looking out for the interests of most Americans.
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.
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