A Dose of Realisim

It is easier to conform, it is better to adjust yourself instead of having society adjust its rules. Accept gender roles quickly, do not question who does the cooking and who the breadwinner is, just look at your genitalia and let that be your guide. Demand masculinity from the male, femininity from the female. It is heated debate if a man and another man fall in love. Some experts believed homosexuality was a disease, a flaw in genetics. Love is blind, yet politicians dictate love’s definition, as a man and a woman. Do the people need any more evidence to the ridiculousness of our world? When men and women who accept bribes and control the funds to our education, art, and well-being can decide the definition of love?

In this world, enough alcohol, prescription medication, or sex can deliver happiness. Human beings no longer need to have interpersonal relationships to feel like they belong. Americans specifically are willing to accept anything as fact, as long as it comes from someone superior. Like cattle, herded into sections by the cattle prods of officials whom we believe we appoint. Why are we victims to the decisions of government workers who know nothing about us? Why is the comfort of my life affected by people I will never meet who decided how much money they get from my paycheck?

I cannot be the only man infuriated with the deception that is our government, media, and laws. When did the people become powerless, and the government become omnipotent? Why do we have to label everything as a method to understand it? Can people not be beings in their own right and originality, why is everything in groups, sects, religious beliefs, and race?

Yet all this is trivial, nothing more than a rant that will befall deaf ears. Complacency is more important that compassion, blending in is more important than taking a stand against the money hungry system we feed daily in an effort to own items that give us social status.

There is part of me that screams, “Do not settle for complacency! Do not settle for autopilot! Don’t turn yourself off to the injustice that permeates our modern times!” Then it quiets itself, whispering, “Stop! You are sticking out! Blend in, accept the pathetic world you live in, have kids and die.”

Ignorance has overtaken intelligence; artistic expression no longer has funding or importance in our world. Children are no longer an investment in the future. Our youth misdiagnosed and medicated to sit still before they can learn how to write in cursive. Animals are mere obstacles for buildings and commerce, nothing more than a nascence. All news other than Fox News is leftist ignorance; all other countries need policing. There are people who wish our demise, and they are a constant threat to capitalism, the American dream.

How relaxing it must be, to drift and ignore the desecration of our constitution; how grand it is to have everything planned, to have your world adhered to a script funded by the rich and power hungry!

It is becoming more apparent that human beings are the most reprehensible creatures to walk this earth, not because we have a propensity to be selfish, but because we care about the path of least resistance. It takes no effort to ignore the needy, the helpless, and the hungry on the way to star buck; the business persons do not exert themselves worrying about those who are handicapped, mentally ill, or lonely. The soccer moms give no thought to the recovering alcoholic who lives in the dumpster across the street. There are people, all over this country in need of love, support, help, food, shelter. Yet it is of greater importance to fuel your hummer, to get a break on your taxes, to hoard the wealth because it is your money and you have to get the latest fashions, cars, magazines, and technology.

What have we become? What kind of culture have I inherited from the past generations? The previous generations are quick to blame, yet lethargic to find solutions. When did American life become someone else’s problem?