Elections

I did a poll. I asked about 10 of my colleagues (granted, not a statistically significant sample, but still) whether they voted. One answer was: "Why? For what?" - demonstrating a complete lack of awareness, let alone interest; most others just said they were "too busy" or they "didn't care."

Now my question is: if educated professionals with so-called high-flying jobs (and presumably half a brain at least) have no interest whatsoever in making their voices heard in the political process by spending a few minutes at a polling station then what kind of picture does that paint of the "greatest democracy" on Earth? What hope is there for pathetic little new democracies like Hungary or Poland? I find it sad and discouraging that these kinds of people care so little and do not even stop for minute to think of the consequences of their (lack of) actions.

There is one possible explanation: this job and the hours they spend here (there was not a night I left before 10 pm last week and most nights, including yesterday I leave closer to midnight and I am never the only one here) makes them brain-dead and opening your mind beyond anything other than the soulless, (mostly) mindless and (often) futile tasks you have to perform day after day, 12 to 16 hours a day would just require too much of an effort.