The government sucks. The infrastructure sucks. The healthcare system sucks. The politicians, the media even the show-business suck. You hate all of them despite the fact that there are honest people that try to improve those things and dedicate time and effort to make them work in your favor. Of course that is simply not happening right now and all of the love you once had for your country is somewhere in between the pages of a history textbook.

You still love the nature of your country – the lakes, the rivers, the mountains, the birds and the flowers. You love the people, the common folks that struggle for a everyday living and still have the time to smile at you and to share a story or just to wish you well. You feel connected to them and you know that you won’t find the same connection anywhere else in the world.

There is no place like home.

But home is where hope is.

There is no hope left here for you so you’re saying to yourself: “Maybe there is hope somewhere else…” and this is the real driving force behind any individual that leaves it’s home country in order to find a better place to live. Perhaps 90% of all search for a better paid job in order to sustain a family or themselves. Cultural differences are not so bad when your belly is full and you have the financial stability and security. Money can’t buy you happiness but they do give hope and security and many will settle for that.

The disconnection is present though. From the earliest age you where nurtured to love your home-country and everything about it maybe even some wrongdoings but that is a different subject. The fact is that yes many people like to travel to distant places, to meet different cultures and lifestyles maybe even to settle for a while and get the real taste of living in those places but their hearts and minds will always crave to return to the one place they felt connected to in their upbringing.

I am not an academic I just try to use common sense from my perspective and from the things I feel about that subject matter. I don’t love my government, I hate it – it gave me nothing. It makes me work bullshit jobs (even those are hard to find nowadays) to get a bullshit paycheck that covers the expenses to get to the bullshit job. I don’t have money in the bank and the only good thing is I did not fall for their shitty loans either. I don’t love my government. I hate it – it made all my friends leave this place. It devastated the lives of my neighbors, my life, the lives of all of us – here or abroad it doesn’t matter. It was supposed to be our government, a democratic one that will bring this country to it’s feet after a 45 year period of isolation. What the fuck happened? 25 years later where are we? Nowhere. No roads, no healthcare, no industry, no purpose, no future. But let’s get to the point:

I really want to love my government because I love my country.

The problem is that you can’t love something that you consider an obstacle (bureaucracy, anyone?!). You can’t love something that is so deeply entangled in the net of it’s own caused problems that it’s basic functions like education, health and social security deteriorate and cease to work for everyone. It’s just not possible. Here is what’s possible in my opinion:

I think it’s possible to receive an Unconditional Basic Income – a monthly cash transfer from your government simply because your government, well… simply because your government loves you… or at least it should… in general.

Crazy idea, right?

“Your government loves YOU.” – How about that, ha? That’s a real twist, right?

“My government loves me!?” – just let it sink there for a while.

“My government loves me! It just gave me money for free!”

Oh, my! Can you imagine that?!

I know I can.

Imagine that your country is the first to implement that kind of an investment in it’s citizens. How proud would you be? How will that unconditional love and faith stated by your government to you, individually, would make you feel? Will it make you feel more civilized, more responsible, more cherished and more loved by the thing that is supposed to cherish you, love you, serve and protect you?

I know I would be.

I know I would feel the responsibility to prove that I’m worth it. I know I won’t run off with the first transfer and never come back, because like it or not, this is my place, this is my country and this is my home. This is the only place on Earth that I will feel most connected to for as long as I live. Hell, yeah! I would love to improve it for the future generations. Hell, yeah! I would like to do that! There is no greater purpose in life than this! The coming generations are OUR generations, our own offspring and we will be judged by not how we found the place, but by the state that we will leave it to them.

So it’s time to stir up the waters.

Those in power have the power and the opportunity to turn the table. It’s up to them to make it work. We are sick and tired of being sick and tired. We as citizens must demand our right to be loved. We must believe that our governments believe in us. Any other case will just end up bad as we have seen in so many cases of the past.

The Unconditional Basic Income idea is the most advanced idea that can be implemented and that can start to work right now and anywhere. Enough with the austerity measures and the “more jobs” mantras of the past. It’s the information age and we’ve landed on a fucking comet for Christ’s sake! Imagine what else can we accomplish if we had the chance and the opportunity to turn down a shitty job offer.

Housekeeping is a job! Raising kids is a job! Creating a beautiful painting is a job! We will never stop to develop, discover, create and produce, to design and to implement, to expand, to flourish and to evolve but it’s the current model that is slowing us down, it’s keeping us poor and neglected, unwilling to take part and miserable, concerned with the pure survival and the basic needs – more of a burden than of a blessing. No one can accept that anymore. No one likes to feel as a burden – not even to the state.

It’s not people’s fault that they hate their governments. It’s not their fault that they can’t participate as equal citizens in the society, the political and the social life. It’s the set of rules that govern us and that are superimposed on us by our governments. A set of rules that are no longer adequate in the present. Cold, industrialized, dogmatic, machine rules that turn man into machines. You get what you nurture but we are not machines! We’re human beings! And we demand to be treated like ones!

Basic Income is a human right! So, show us your love governments…

Or expect our well nurtured hatred!

The people have spoken. The machines are tired.

I am serious… government. You need help.