heroes
Where are our heroes? We lost admiration for our "forefathers" - not just because they abandoned us, but also because...well, how can one look up to someone who had slaves, and to whom women were little more than trophies and flowers, not equals? We lost faith in out religion - given brand choices between pedophiles and war-mongers who don't seem to even be reading the same book as me, the lesser evil doesn't feel very comforting. We lost our mind in science, which gave is advances we now are told not to use, during decades of warning about a coming man-made ice age to new worries about warming instead. Caffeine is healthy one week, unhealthy the next, then back again...real science died from suffocation, having capitalism shoved down its throat. We lost our awe of beauty and celebrity when they lost their last bit of class, somewhere after the fiftieth time Britney or Paris was photographed sans-panties. We can't even remember what our politicians had in the first place, it being so lost...between defending getting blowjobs in the oval office, to even thinking about letting someone like Romney win...
Who? Ourselves? Each other? We're betrayed by all our heroes now; they're all dead. Maybe I was on to something when I coined the phrase 'expect nothing from the world - expect the world from yourself'' but....what does a kid know?
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