sometimes i feel as though i'm being ridiculous for stressing myself out so much.
all my life, i've been told that the shit i do now will affect me later in life. in elementary school i was asked by a man passing out "career tests" where i wanted to go to college. i glanced at Drew Iwanicki's paper, which read "Ivy League" and decided that's where i wanted to go. Even though i had no idea what that was--because that's what
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Our parents generation was confused, just as theirs was before them, and so on throughout the history of man back to the caveman that saw lightning strike a tree and made a God out of it.
You must remember though that for all those hippies there were just as many good ol boys fighting the good fight over in Nam and working in their parents wall street firms. And for all those there were just as many who sat on the sidelines. Who didnt take up the flower, who didnt take up the rifle, who didnt think.
Just let it blow over, everything takes care of itself. And these are the people who let government do anything it wants so long as theres milk at the grocery store.
And the hippies grew up, and they realized that for all the love there was, there was just as much hate. And that they didnt really get anything done. And the soldiers grew up and they saw the hate firsthand. And the businessmen grew up and realized that they can do whatever they want because theyve got money. And the sideliners grew up bitter because they dont stand for anything, and they didnt make a difference either way, and their whole lives have been a waste because they just let the current carry them through college, through life without ever finding something to believe in. Without ever finding themselves.
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This is so unutterably true. These kind of folks make me so sad--they wholeheartedly chant "AMERICA--FUCK YEA," and yet America has some of the lowest voter turnout rates in the world.
oh, and we elected a total dickwad.
twice.
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