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of course i feel the bits of happiness... yay! saw Motorcycle Diaries (so beautiful, but more sad)... bought a new tea pot... getting cable on wednesday - and then i scroll through all my news feeds (new obsession = NewsFire) and resume to feeling like the days just lurch by. i return to this awful feeling that we are just helpless little fucking animals. a rat race. wanting things we don't really need, consumed by branding and advertising that we can't hide from.
watched Fight Club tonight, which didn't help supress that view. is my/our quick interest in politics around election time somehow like the yuppies in the film - we pull ourselves from our 9 to 5, trying to give our lives some sort of purpose and outlet of anger? but concerning what?
- do we really care about the national healthcare plan Kerry has promised? fuck. people talk about it on the news like it's only the poor and single mother families that are suffering from lack of healthcare. it would be a luxury for me to go to a doctor right now but i'm fucking freelancing and "sorry - that's not a benefit." WE SHOULD CARE.
- are we really concerned about the horrible disparity between quality and failing education? honestly were any of our families affected by the budget cuts that Bush pulled? my brother was shuffled through his middle school, then high school despite his low-functioning autism. the supposed "special ed" classes were bullshit and i do fault the system. my mom drives around to five head-start schools in West Virginia so she can provide some sort of music education even though the school does not have funding. Education was a problem long before Bush's administration AND WE SHOULD CARE.
or is the whole point of our democracy to vote for a leader of the free world just to blow more smoke up our ass so that we can elect someone that we think embodies what Americans should be -- what we wish we really took a stand for?
DEMAND EQUAL TIME.
The conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose television outlets reach nearly a quarter of the nation's homes with TV, is ordering its stations to preempt regular programming just days before the Nov. 2 election to air a film that attacks Sen. John F. Kerry's activism against the Vietnam War, network and station executives familiar with the plan said Friday.
watched Fight Club tonight, which didn't help supress that view. is my/our quick interest in politics around election time somehow like the yuppies in the film - we pull ourselves from our 9 to 5, trying to give our lives some sort of purpose and outlet of anger? but concerning what?
- do we really care about the national healthcare plan Kerry has promised? fuck. people talk about it on the news like it's only the poor and single mother families that are suffering from lack of healthcare. it would be a luxury for me to go to a doctor right now but i'm fucking freelancing and "sorry - that's not a benefit." WE SHOULD CARE.
- are we really concerned about the horrible disparity between quality and failing education? honestly were any of our families affected by the budget cuts that Bush pulled? my brother was shuffled through his middle school, then high school despite his low-functioning autism. the supposed "special ed" classes were bullshit and i do fault the system. my mom drives around to five head-start schools in West Virginia so she can provide some sort of music education even though the school does not have funding. Education was a problem long before Bush's administration AND WE SHOULD CARE.
or is the whole point of our democracy to vote for a leader of the free world just to blow more smoke up our ass so that we can elect someone that we think embodies what Americans should be -- what we wish we really took a stand for?
DEMAND EQUAL TIME.
The conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose television outlets reach nearly a quarter of the nation's homes with TV, is ordering its stations to preempt regular programming just days before the Nov. 2 election to air a film that attacks Sen. John F. Kerry's activism against the Vietnam War, network and station executives familiar with the plan said Friday.