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Dear America. The key to revolution is to not become the very thing you were originally rebelling against in the first place. I know for a fact that a big reason we swam away from those pesky British islands were to free ourselves from religious oppression. So, why is it that all this time later we've become religiously intolerant? There's a big difference between saying and doing. We say we're free all the time, but we aren't. So it shouldn't be a surprise that we SAY people have religious freedom in this country, but they don't.
All I'm saying is there's no sense in rebelling from something you've called "bullshit" on, only to repeat the same mistakes as your oppressors.
Furthermore, I've been amused lately with images of American icons that are posted all about my place of work. It strikes me as strange how we blindly shroud these figures with love -without realizing the ironic joke that almost seems cosmically built into the very premise of their iconography.
Take Elvis for example.
The king of rock, the cat of cool. From rags to riches comes a musical talent that captured the attention of a nation well past his expiration date. The kinda guy every man wants to be and every woman wants to be with...right? Suave, handsome, talented. Rich. Everything Americans want to be at their peak. Yet he died young, over weight, dosed up on pills, dressed like a joke, and alone.
A real American icon.
All I'm saying is there's no sense in rebelling from something you've called "bullshit" on, only to repeat the same mistakes as your oppressors.
Furthermore, I've been amused lately with images of American icons that are posted all about my place of work. It strikes me as strange how we blindly shroud these figures with love -without realizing the ironic joke that almost seems cosmically built into the very premise of their iconography.
Take Elvis for example.
The king of rock, the cat of cool. From rags to riches comes a musical talent that captured the attention of a nation well past his expiration date. The kinda guy every man wants to be and every woman wants to be with...right? Suave, handsome, talented. Rich. Everything Americans want to be at their peak. Yet he died young, over weight, dosed up on pills, dressed like a joke, and alone.
A real American icon.