Lambs to the Slaughter

We are lambs riding a conveyor belt heading straight for the grinder.

In another fifty years, human beings will look back on our present-day society and pinpoint the one invention that lead to our downfall. And no, the invention will not be nuclear weapons or any weapon of war. No, they'll look back and see that our downfall was caused by the centerpiece of nearly every living room in the country, the television.

Television has turned our society into observers. No longer are we men and women of action. No we're simply viewers of life, watching it pass us by and every now and then when life brushes past us, we're powerless to act in any significant way.

Last year there was a story in the news about a psycho who attacked a passenger on the subway with a hammer, beat his brains in, and the fellow passengers sat there and watched, doing nothing. When the attack was over, someone walked over and stole the victim's phone.

Life is an interactive experience, people. We watch injustice in the world and we see it happen and yet we do nothing. The problem with the world isn't that there's injustice and evil, it's that no one is willing to do anything about it because it might be inconvenient. Let someone else deal with it. The only problem is that there is no one else. Where's the sacrifice? Where's the sense of the common good? How would we ever win a war on our own soil if another country attacked? Answer: We wouldn't. No one would be willing to put his/her life on the line for the good of the many. Pathetic...

Our entire species is sitting on that conveyor belt, sitting doe-eyed and happily ignorant of the danger awaiting us. And even when there's a voice of reason SCREAMING for us to move, we don't. We sit and watch, all the way until the grinder tears into our flesh and spits us out on the other end.

"Remember that the only thing that Good has to do in order for Evil to be victorious is nothing."

Divided We Fall

Back in the royal courts, it was the jesters who could speak freely about politics and the monarchy without fear of retribution. The same thing could be said today with political comedians like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert being the only bearers of truth on television. The message they delivered yesterday at their political rally/comedy show was one I've been saying for a long time now: The problem with this country isn't Democrats; the problem isn't Republicans. The problem is that United States citizens stand by and allow Washington to destroy this once great country.

The two party system doesn't work and that has never been more clear than right now before midterm elections. We have Republicans blaming Democrats for the poor state of the nation and we've got Democrats blaming Republicans and I think they're both right. They all fucked us - Republican and Democrats alike. The fight shouldn't be between Democrats and Republicans; it should be US vs. THEM. These rich assholes running our country don't know their assholes from a hole in the ground. They've failed us. They've turned our country into a business and we're beyond bankrupt.

The solution is simple: We need a third party. And no, The Tea Party doesn't count because they're just Super Republicans who seem dumber than the normal Republicans. We need a third, independent party whose platform isn't guns or abortion or business but leadership and morality. Individuals within this party won't have to adhere to certain issues in order to please the party. All they'll have to be is a good leader with a sense or morality and whose allegiance is to the people of this country and not to big business or corporate America or even their own party.

But if we're waiting around for our government to create another party and threaten their own stranglehold on this country, we're going to be waiting a long time. Change doesn't come from those already in power. No, it comes from the disenfranchised and those who demand a better future for their children. On Tuesday, it really doesn't matter who you vote for. None of the names on that ballot are going to fix our problems. I'm afraid that's up to us.

United States of Stupidity

This simple fact is undeniable: America does not value intelligence.

For proof, look at the rise of Sarah Palin. Here is a woman who is a complete imbecile, an uneducated redneck bitch with only a handful of working brain cells rattling around under that beehive hairdo. She's been proven to be an uneducated, inarticulate retard and yet I would not be surprised if this woman become president in 2012. People love her (and when I say people, I'm referring to ignorant, Bible-thumping, gun-toting super-Republicans like the ones being lured into the Tea Party movement). This woman represents the lack of intelligence in this country and how if someone is entertaining, he/she can lead the pathetic lemmings of this country straight over the edge of the cliff.

Our education system is in the crapper. We're falling behind most industrialized nations in the important subjects of math and science. Why? Because intelligence is no longer one of our core values here in America. You want to know what we value? Take a look at the salaries for professional athletes, movie stars, pop singers, and reality dipshits. This is what we value in this country: entertainment. We value these fucking clowns more than any doctor, lawyer, politician, or educator in this country. We all want to sit on our asses and be entertained while the rest of the world surpasses us in every area that matters. What do we produce in this country? Great minds? No. Great leaders? No. Great innovation? No. We are the world's greatest producer of clowns.

Obama is demanding year-round schooling and merit pay for teachers. Sounds like nothing more than rearranging chairs on the deck of the Titanic. Changing school schedules and teachers won't help. We have to change our culture first. Our entertainment industries have stereotyped intellectuals as nerds and losers who will never get laid. They do this because typically it's stupid people who watch television. Unfortunately, now these portrayals have seeped into our culture and made being intelligent taboo. When we change our cultural values, then we can lift ourselves up out of our pit of stupidity. Until then, we're destined to wallow in dark with the Sarah Palins of the world.

Shut the Fuck Up and Work!

I think there are a lot of people who are confused out there. Let me clear something up for you: The purpose of work...is to DO WORK. It's not to chit-chat. It's not to share your life story with me. Shut the fuck up and do whatever it is that you're being paid to do. If we're co-workers, that just means I'm getting paid to do the same thing next to you. It doesn't mean I have to listen to you or like you or even acknowledge that you fucking exist.

The work ethic in this country is fucking pathetic. No one treats work with any respect anymore. You should have two selves: a work you and a home you. When you go to work, put your game face on. You should not be the same person at work as you are at home, I don't care what your fucking high school guidance counselor told you about being yourself. At work, be a better version of you.

I just can't believe the things people who I just met AT WORK are willing to share after knowing me for a grand total of three days. I don't want to hear about your recent surgery. I don't want to hear about your kids or your recent divorce or how your first husband left you because you think he's gay but then he went swimming in a quarry and hit his head and drowned. I should not know more about your life than I know about my own fucking family members. Notice that I haven't said anything to you other than my first name? Well, follow that example and that's exactly how much I want to know about you personally.

And while we're on the subject, don't bitch that your boss isn't personable. I don't want my boss to be personable. I want my boss to stay out of my face and locked in his office playing solitaire on his computer. I don't want to tell him about my vacation, I don't want to tell him about what I did last night, I don't want to tell him anything. He's my boss, not my friend.

Are we really such weak-minded individuals that we can't tell the difference anymore? Not everyone has to like you. Some of us just have to work with you...SO SHUT UP!

Dumbed Down Version: Work is for work. Not work is for bullshitting. Know the difference.

Fuck Independence Day

For my post for this month, I'd like to focus on the sham that occurs on the fourth day of July every year known as Independence Day. The entire celebration of America's birthday makes me fucking sick; the traditions, the feigned patriotism, and, of course, we can't forget about those goddamn fireworks. The sad thing is that July 4th is the perfect metaphor for the current state of America: Americans stuffing their faces, drinking beer, and then entertaining themselves by staring blindly into the sky at a bunch of bright lights and loud noises. Fucking pathetic...

My real complaint is this: What exactly is there to celebrate? Take a look at the current state of our country, our government, our citizens. July 4th shouldn't be a day of celebration; no, it should be a day of mourning, a wake for our once great country. The America we all think we live in, the one we learn about in history class in high schools from coast to coast, it's dead. The sad thing is it never really existed in the first place.

Instead of Independence Day being a day of gluttony, the holiday should be a day of revolution. It should be a day where Americans rise up and demand the America we've all been promised, the America we deserve. Instead of staring blindly into the sky, we should look into our hearts, into our souls, and ask ourselves how we could allow our country to rot while we stand idly by and eat hot dogs. Our generation's great war is upon us. We must rescue America from its most dangerous enemy since its birth on July 4, 1796.

We must save America from itself.

Chicks Don't Need Dicks

The world has fallen out of balance. The scales balancing the powers of male and female have fallen lopsided in the favor of masculinity.

In our modern society, being a "strong woman" means a woman must act like a man. The problem is that world works best when the female and male are in harmony - balanced. Now, this doesn't mean women should vacuum and bake chicken pot pie and men should hunt and scratch their nuts. I'm not talking about stereotypical gender roles here. The balance I'm speaking of is more basic.

Everything in the world is meant to be balanced. The Powers That Be created two genders who would compliment each other and exist in harmony. Women were created to be nurturers - sympathetic, selfless, and protective of their offspring. Men, on the other hand, were meant to be laborers - productive, strong of will, and defenders of their family unit. Unfortunately, in addition to the positive aspects of masculinity, there are also an abundance of negative qualities, the most dangerous being their insatiable desire to need, to consume, to want. The feminine was designed to keep these desires in check.

Unfortunately, over the past decade, women have been evolving more and more into the masculine role. Now it is no longer just men who are slaves to decadence. Now women want and women need just as insatiably, if not more so, than men. In a desperate attempt to be treated like equals, women have convinced themselves that they can achieve this goal by acting like a man, namely like a self-centered prick.

Now men, displaced by masculine women, find themselves without a role, without a place in the world. Machines have also usurped their role. This has created a large male population who shy away from work because their female partner has become the laborer, forcing them to sit in their basement and play video games for days upon days in order to simulate the adventure males seek by nature. Kids are being raised by no one because mothers work and fathers work or simply refuse to accept the nurturer role in the relationship. When no one accepts the nurturing role in a family, a generation of lost children will rise and burn the Earth to its core.

There's a reason why the symbol for perfect unity is the symbol for masculinity (the triangle) intersected by the symbol for femininity (the inverted triangle). Male and females are meant to exist in harmony and, now that that balance is broken, peace will not be found in this world until the scales of masculinity and femininity can be balanced once more.

The Power of Hate

You know, I feel like hate gets a bad rap. Everyone is always talking about the power of love, how the power of love conquors all...bullshit.

Nothing is greater than the movivating powers of hate. If you page through the history books, you'll see that it's been Hate, and not Love, that has been the great catalyst for change throughout the annals of history. Let me tell you about Love. Love is content. Love is lazy. Love is oblivious to the true nature of its own surroundings. Love can't change shit. It's Hate that will forge the future out of molten lead and steel. Hate will take our complacency and rip it to shreds, nuke the present day and salt the earth so that we are forced to give birth to something new, something better.

Love inspires songs about mountains. Hate blows a hole through those same mountains and builds an eight-lane highway running straight through them.

There's a lot to be said about the untapped potential of Hate. I'm not talking about blind rage or ignorant discrimination, but a focused, unbridled Hate that sits at the bottom of your throat, waiting to explode out of you like a volcano spewing molten lava.

Love is too weak and naive to ever make a difference. Put your faith in the power of Hate and allow it to walk you hand-in-hand to the Promised Land.

Going to the Movies is Pointless

Going to the movies is fucking pointless.

You wanna know why?

I'll tell you why. It's mainly because of all the fucking morons who you have to watch the movie with. The movie-watching experience has always included dipshits and inconsiderate assholes, but now it's almost unbearable to even attempt to sit through a movie at your local cinema because of the popularity of the most annoying piece of shit technology ever invented...the fucking iPhone.

Goddamn you iPhone people.

Listen, you only get until the previews start to play with your phone. That's it! Once the previews start, you're done. Put your piece of shit phone away before I jam it into your windpipe.

Why do you even have your phone out? You're here at the movies with your friends! Why don't you talk to the people you're out with instead of basically telling them, "You're dogshit. I'm going to ignore you and check my phone to see if I got a message from someone more important!" How rude and inconsiderate are you people? Exist in the present moment with live human beings...or have we lost that ability as a species?

Then you've got these inconsiderate butt plugs who have to keep opening their phone to check the time or God knows what they're fucking doing. So you're watching the movie, getting into it, when all of a sudden A BRIGHT, BLUE LIGHT ERUPTS TO YOUR LEFT! And you think, "Shit! Aliens have come to abduct me...oh wait...it's just some inconsiderate prick checking their phone. And there's another...and another...and another..."

What the fuck are you doing?! The movie will end when it fucking ends! Or here's an idea: BUY A FUCKING WATCH, TECHNO-FUCK! If you can pay $500 for a cell phone, I'm sure you can dish out a 20 for a cheap watch. Seriously people, can we please employ stupidity police to wander our cities beating the shit out of people who lack the common sense and courtesy to take their fellow human beings into consideration?

Here's the bottom line: A trip to the movies is an escape. For two hours, that movie is supposed to transport you to another world. How are you supposed to get lost in that world if you're anchored to the real world by your goddamn cell phone?

Dumbed Down Version: Leave your phones in the car when you're going to the movies if you're too addicted to your phone to leave it alone for two hours, you weak-minded piece of shit.