Election day.

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The options are not optimal, and I mean that in every way.  Still, it is quite true that one of two will be the president when the election is completed.  Ron Paul will not win.  Johnson has no chance to be president.  Either Romney or Zero will be president.  Beside the 47%'ers, and the (at this point) 2% of election malfeasance, there is little room for a win, assuming most conservative type folks do what they usually do, stay home.  I don't like any of it.  I really don't wish to vote.  But it is what I can do in that forum.

While living your life your way is one way to vote with your wallet, feet, etc., what happens when the right to do so is taken from you?  Rights are, and have been, eroding for generations.  Though, to be honest, much of what passes for rights never were meant to be rights, too.  We were, I think, never quite expected to do, or be able to do, much of what we do.  Some libertarians, including myself, sometimes don't fully understand that.  I keep... bumping into things myself.  Libertine, libertarian, conservative, even liberal and left, have some very distorted views due to life in an age of technological wonders.  Those wonders are no more a right, let alone a good.  Texting?  Cell phones?  Transportation on demand?

I think, in forgotten times, men probably did have technology that came close to what we have now, I do.  I think either those times were lost due to the inability of men to keep the thing going, a series of natural disasters, or even a realization that such a life was not worth living.  We keep coming back to pinnacles, golden ages, then... surrendering them.  The extremes in either direction are... untenable.  In one we are forced to live like animals, and stealing and murder are just other methods of getting food and protect our food sources.  On the other end, everything we need and much of what we want can be delivered to our door in two days, less if we wish to pay just a bit more.  We have no real needs.  But too, we have to do exactly what we are told, when we are told.  We become cogs, numbers, just one of the many of the faceless masses.  We surrender our souls to have what we want, when we want it.

Is there a sane balance?  Can it be maintained?  When we do well we constantly improve.  When we get some, we find out how to get more, better, faster.  I don't know if there is a way to keep the drive while avoiding the excess.  The drive is so strong.  Our abilities outstrip our humility, humanity, sanity.  We try to climb on our humility to gain power, wealth, whatever else.  My health holds me in place, and is therefore a gift, save that it depends on... well... a world of cogs which can be milked.  Gah!

Never mind.  As I said, I have decided to lend my vote to Romney.  I don't think he is the best choice, if I think the Republican field for the office was thin anyway and the Libertarian choices were no better.  Perhaps my unhappiness is an extension of the more, better, faster notion the modern world has brought me?  Perhaps I simply can't be satisfied?  Dunno.  Lots of questions, no good answers.  Well, at least I could like Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, should they happen to become social circle staples.  There is that.  And, that might not be all bad.