Look for me on street corners with a sign...
I hear all the time that my generation has little if any attention span. At least not to the important things anyway. How can I disagree? I myself have very little idea of who's running in the next election, and even less of an idea of where they stand on 'the issues'. Hell, what are the fucking issues? I don't know about the rest of these people, but I have my reasons. It's just too much to take. If I were to actually pay attention to everything that's going on, actually stare at and memorize who all the politicians are and what they stand for, take heed at what's going on outside my little suburban dome, show some sort of interest in all this plight around the world that we're causing, I'd go nuts. I'd be that guy on the street corner screaming at passers-by that "THE END IS NEAR!!!" I just can't take all that. I know shit's going down, I really do. But there's only so much I can handle.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070826/ap_on_re_us/after_katrina_my_hometown_1
After reading that, I just have this unrelenting sense of, "Holy fucking shit, we're totally screwed..." I mean, that whole story reads like the beginning of some post-apocalyptic movie trailer. The people we trust to take care of the things are screwing us, and we seem to be cool with it. If they're cool with not helping our own people in lew of fucking up someone else, what else can they pull on us? We're living here and accepting all this as status quo and that things are good. Things have never been better. We're living the good life. Yeah, that really sounded like some paranoid neo-hippy bullshit, and I'm kinda ashamed of it, but it's true. It all just makes me really nervous.
I'm going out to get a job. Do I want to get a job in this country if I can see the shit headed toward that industrial-sized fan? I hear Canada is nice this time of year. I don't know. It's a lot easier to not pay attention and stay blissfully uninformed. These people's lives got fucked. Those people over there in the suits and White House credentials are spending money like it's going out style, money that could actually do someone else some good. But hey, what the fuck. I'm still here, still kickin it, what the fuck should I care? Do I feel bad about this kind of stuff? Of course. But my life is fucked up as it is. I don't need more bad news to send me over the edge. God, was this whole post about politics and how 'they're' coming after us like it's some kind of conspiracy theory?
THE END IS NIGH!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070826/ap_on_re_us/after_katrina_my_hometown_1
After reading that, I just have this unrelenting sense of, "Holy fucking shit, we're totally screwed..." I mean, that whole story reads like the beginning of some post-apocalyptic movie trailer. The people we trust to take care of the things are screwing us, and we seem to be cool with it. If they're cool with not helping our own people in lew of fucking up someone else, what else can they pull on us? We're living here and accepting all this as status quo and that things are good. Things have never been better. We're living the good life. Yeah, that really sounded like some paranoid neo-hippy bullshit, and I'm kinda ashamed of it, but it's true. It all just makes me really nervous.
I'm going out to get a job. Do I want to get a job in this country if I can see the shit headed toward that industrial-sized fan? I hear Canada is nice this time of year. I don't know. It's a lot easier to not pay attention and stay blissfully uninformed. These people's lives got fucked. Those people over there in the suits and White House credentials are spending money like it's going out style, money that could actually do someone else some good. But hey, what the fuck. I'm still here, still kickin it, what the fuck should I care? Do I feel bad about this kind of stuff? Of course. But my life is fucked up as it is. I don't need more bad news to send me over the edge. God, was this whole post about politics and how 'they're' coming after us like it's some kind of conspiracy theory?
THE END IS NIGH!!!