| | I just need to get these thoughts down. I'm sorry if it offends anyone, afterall, it is not my place to judge - nonetheless, I need an outlet.
America. This country just fucks with my head. Seriously. Here you are, the most privileged people in the entire world and you just sit on your asses doing nothing. It is such an individually driven society. Kids move out when they're eighteen and that's it, they're an adult. College? Pay for it yourself, gas? pay for it yourself. Now I'm not debating the values learnt from having your own job etc... But hello, what happened to childhood? The board of education is always going on about 'no child left behind' blahblahblah, but in reality it seems to me like every child is left behind. From when kids can hold a job they're sucked into the cycle. The cycle of "work, pay for gas, pay for rent, pay for this, pay for that". America - why are you not giving your children a chance to be children, a chance to think and develop morals and values and all that good stuff. Why do you feel the need to make them so responsible so early? Make them so responsible that they forget their first and foremost responsibility to be a thinking citizen. I meet college students who've thought less about the world than a ten year old! Okay, maybe their families really needed that extra source of income. I say that is the reason why it is a cycle, their parents were part of it too. I don't know, I'm not lessening their sacrifices. But I do know, that people need to think. The lord knows that public education feebly attempts and miserably fails at making americans world citizens.
That is what I guess this whole post is about. America, sitting on it's high and lofty perch - worried about their welfare moms fail to see the mothers on streets around the world. Mothers who hold dead babies and beg for scraps to stay alive. America, so self-absorbed - worried about racism fails to see g.e.n.o.c.i.d.e. occuring (and if they do see it, do precious little). Racism which kills, slaughters and rapes countless people in horrific ways.
America, america, america. Fuck. No, I am not asking the US to be the world's guardian - heavens no - but demanding that they educate their people. American high schoolers are scoffed at worldwide. For a good reason. Nobody knows their geography or their current global events. They might be citizens of a country, but they fail terribly to be citizens of the bigger scheme, the World. It makes me so sad to see people just living their small little lives here in riches beyond half the world's imagination, and not do anything in appreciation. It deeply saddens me.
The world will not work itself out, the world will not revolve just because you pay your taxes, and you have not done your part just by paying them. The world revolves, people's lives are saved because of sacrifice. Because some people figured out how to be good people, good citizens - not just of their countries, but of their world. Our world. I don't know.
This is why, this is why, not because of president bush, not because of hiroshima, not because of the invasion of iraq, americans are despised and detested. For the reason that americans are ignorant and arrogant in their ignorance. Bush, hiroshima, iraq - they just opened the world's eyes.
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| | Posted 12/8/2008 3:28 AM - 26 Views - 4 eProps - 2 comments
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