Paling Into Insignificance - Statistical Democratics

I was reading a close friend's blog earlier, and whilst pondering over the world's climate change and whatnot, it made me think.

• There are 193 recognised countries (+52 of lesser significance - more on that next time!) in the world.
• ~6.6bn people
  

Quick calculator-button-punching time.

If we average it out, each country accounts for 0.52% of all.
Each country has an average of 34.2m people (around the same as Algeria or Canada).

Leicester City's population accounts for 0.54% of that of the UK's 60.7m total. It would take a town just smaller than Glasgow to account for 1% of the UK population. You - Mr Must-Try-Harder - account for 0.00000164% of the total UK population.
If everyone were to fit onto a typical football pitch, then you would have to measure 4mm x 4.5mm. Which is smalled than the base of a footballer's boot stud.


Which brings me to the point of all this. Voting, getting messages across and general attempted democracy. There was recently a Facebook poll for something useless like "I Bet I Can Find One Million Users Fancy Ur Mum" or something menial. So what if you do?! What does it prove? Well, statistically speaking, that 1.67% of the UK think your mum's fit. The other 98.3% disagree.
In reality? Your vote and voice counts for nothing. 'pologies all. It's depressing, demoralising, even morbid.

Solution? Shout. Doesn't matter if it makes any sense or not, just do it loudly. Worked for George Bush!