"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore" A quote made famous by the Movie 'Network' In 1976. I recently just walked out of a class incensed by the fact that my class ignored and berated the character, Howard Beale, The man who said the line. Who ushered the people watching to fling open their window and shout those very words into the night air.
But here's the thing I notice. I notice that whenever someone has the guts to speak up and speak the truth about the nation or about the state of the world as we know it, they get berated and shot down, picked down and made fun of. Satirized and drawn by a terrible impressionist in a tabloid newspaper. And somehow, I know why. It's because we as people don't want to acknowledge the painful truths that fill the world, that affect us on the day to day. We let Congress and the Senate worry about things, despite knowing that these 'leaders' are on the take from corporations and big business.
We leave our futures as human beings in the pockets of people who just see money as an object, not as a means of survival. When I graduate college my first thought will be "I need to get a job so I can buy my groceries and pay off my loans." We are indebted to people who only take more and more but never give back because their money is in an offshore tax haven. When I graduate I need to deal with the thought that I'm just going to be another Wage-slave for some business. Just like everyone who graduates, and just like everyone else working a job. And what upsets me the most, is that we just let it happen. No contest, no argument. We lie down, and take what we're given.
When Working a job and doing what you love becomes worrying about if you're going to be able to pay rent at the end of the week, and not about enjoying life, something is Terribly, terribly wrong.
People in power exert power, and we, the little people beleive whatever is piped onto the television screen, and buy whatever product that it tells us to buy, because we're too afraid to raise our voices and scream that "Enough is enough."
Democracy is dead, it's been dead. It died once we gave power to the people who only care about money. Not about morality or ethics. Just about buying that new yacht. Or Holding some soiree for their rich friends. Capitalism is cancer, It enslaves us, as people, to always give our money away to some faceless industry fat cat.
Me? I guess you can just call me another angry, insane youth who was raised wrong. All I know is that I don't buy into the lies and bullcrap they put on the evening news. Change will only happen when WE make it happen. Not when we put it in the hands of an old man in congress.
But that's just my opinion. Make your own.
