Happy Thanksgiving, Pilgrims.
I think my future plans have changed a bit.
And none of that, "If we couldn't stop this before it happened, why do anything now..." BULLSHIT.
I'm so fucking tired of the laziness and the apathy.
I was surrounded in the coffee-shop by hungover ex-college and college students today, bitching and moaning about the election...only then to say things like, "I was conditioned by our society to be this way, it's THEIR fault I felt powerless."
FUCK YOU. WAKE UP.
Trust me, this is not a "holier than thou" post. I did shit but donate money to the Dean campaign and register people to vote in VT. I worked to get my Dad reelected to represent 3500 people, in a tiny state.
But I felt blank, and almost pitied the folks on the sidewalks, or the door-door pamphleteers.
Numb and hopeless to the point of finding humor in it.
I'd like to think we have the chance NOW to do more than we ever have been able to do.
Even if all it means is reaching for things in our lives (whether personal, social, political) that we have deemed impossible.
I'm not promoting blind faith, I'm just promoting HOPE- enough to transform into some god damned determination.
And none of that, "If we couldn't stop this before it happened, why do anything now..." BULLSHIT.
I'm so fucking tired of the laziness and the apathy.
I was surrounded in the coffee-shop by hungover ex-college and college students today, bitching and moaning about the election...only then to say things like, "I was conditioned by our society to be this way, it's THEIR fault I felt powerless."
FUCK YOU. WAKE UP.
Trust me, this is not a "holier than thou" post. I did shit but donate money to the Dean campaign and register people to vote in VT. I worked to get my Dad reelected to represent 3500 people, in a tiny state.
But I felt blank, and almost pitied the folks on the sidewalks, or the door-door pamphleteers.
Numb and hopeless to the point of finding humor in it.
I'd like to think we have the chance NOW to do more than we ever have been able to do.
Even if all it means is reaching for things in our lives (whether personal, social, political) that we have deemed impossible.
I'm not promoting blind faith, I'm just promoting HOPE- enough to transform into some god damned determination.