November 16, 2000
Some things, like our current election, have been commented on enough bymany people much more Knowledgeable, articulate and objective than myself.
But this lunacy has not gone unnoticed.
And I am tired to the bone of arguing with so many people about our beliefs.
It seems to me like most primates I talk to are embarrassingly unaware, yet
fiercely opinionated.
I have watched this country
During my first election, before our second millennium,
Behave like ignorant rednecks in a sportsbar, brawling over a football game.
It is shameful.
I am tired of cell-phone-wearing, SUV-driving, fast-food-chain sustaining
fools, griping at me about politics.
For the next month, if you are not the sort of person who sees how
spiritually homogenized, destructive and wasteful we've become...
Just Don't Talk To Me.
I'm tired of the people who think everything's okay;
Who think there is no hope,
Who think the media is accurate,
Who think they are powerless,
Who think the environment is indispensable,
Who think whites are right,
Who think whites are wrong,
Who try and crop reality into something you can check off in a box on a form
somewhere.
I am sick of the people who open up their minds to TV, satiate their
intellects on the garbage within, vote based on generalized concepts and
hearsay, and then complain when they're inevitably shafted again by the
brainwashers they opened themselves to.
I've been listening to ruddy-faced twerps, shaking their jowls and howling
about "A vote for this is a vote for that" ... And I wonder what they've
ever done to try and better the world?
Well, don't shake those bloated jowls and fingers at me, because
I am working on it.
I am voting out of hope, instead of fear.
I believe that change is possible and I am giving myself to the effort.
I will continue to use the resources I have to support the things
I believe in every day of my life.
I am certain about almost nothing, but one of the things that I feel very
deeply is that we need to change what we are doing as human beings.
We have the technology to obliterate our planet,
Yet every year, we increase our already corpulent military budget
By the billions,
While our social programs lose funding, lose the
Resources they are starving for.
Every year in America, we close down more schools and
Open more privatized prisons.
We imprison people of color at an alarmingly high rate,
And execute them for crimes whites go unpunished for by comparison.
Our privatized prisons work people of color like slaves.
Instead of improving impoverished communities with social programs,
Offering opportunities and choices for change, we are increasing punishments
and sentences.
Every y
ear we exacerbate the problems and the tensions run higher.
People hate so much.
The discrimination is disgusting.
It seems that if people can control the influence they have on other people,
they should attempt to contribute positivity.
Yesterday, a woman passengering in an SUV behind us punched our window
when we slowed to find parking.
She was screaming obscenities.
I don't understand why people go so far out of their way to hurt others.
We fuck each other over enough accidentally.
I need to believe that there is a strong faction of people in this world
Who are not so selfish that they would time and time again screw over
another person
To get marginally ahead.
I need to believe there is a following of people who work to improve things
Without asking how they benefit or what prize they get.
I have met some of these seemingly rare and precious people.
A lot of them call themselves Greens.
I am proud to be on the bandwagon for change.
I can have no certainty that it will get me anywhere,
But it makes life more worth living for me to be a dreamer
and not a pragmatist.
I believe that the greatest movements in history have
Depended in part on this.
I am steadily working to get what I want.
Are you?
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