Fuck the System

Recently I have been thinking more and more about society as a whole, I do give credit to my sociology lessons and the issues of the raise in tuition fees making far more aware than I was before of how much I... dislike our current government. Reading through all the news reports of it astounds me to see how much information the media seems to leave out in order to portray students as those who are violent youths rather than the whole story, although it doesn't surprise me they did, it's just the amount the media does leave out which shocked me. So much for freedom of speech.
In sociology my teacher used a phrase in which we are described as "puppets on a string" being manipulated by all the powerful social institutions, such as the government in order to all control us, and force us into conforming.  I believe that we have no free will, they've conditioned everyone to believe we all have a choice and that the choice we happen to be making is our own, yet how can we be certain? We are all shaped by society, even those who rebel have been shaped to want to go against anything that is seen to be conformist in order not to. So how do we know what we truly want?  And why is it we are enabling these institutions to spoon feed us all this capitalist bullshit? In today's society we are taught to believe we have more freedom than ever before, but everything we do, the choices we make have all been influenced by the system we all live by.
If I have to be shaped by society I'll be taking the rebellious road, at least in that sense I won't feel like another mindless robot bowing down to this countries capitalist situation. 

Me :) 

I haven't written in a while as I've been extremely busy.
Yesterday was the third of the many more student protests, and I'm extremely proud to say that I've been to every single one! The police were ridiculously violent, and for the first couple of hours the protest split up in order t avoid being kettled! It was hilarious!
Towards the end though it was starting to get more and more violent with one girl being beaten and having to be hospitalised! It was an utter disgrace, I ended up in A and E with a deep cut on my finger, almost cutting the tendon! Ahh but despite that I really enjoyed myself, it feels lovely to be able to at least try and stand up for my rights! Quite a few photo's of me scattered arounf on Flickr and I was on BBC news, screaming at the police "SHAME ON YOU!"

We have to fight to win this, I won't be intimidated by the police's brutality!