Over Indulgence, Sex with EVERYTHING, and the Right to Sue Anonymously. America, we are F**ked
Over Indulgence, Sex with EVERYTHING, and the Right to Sue Anonymously
. America, we are F**kedDear Reader,
One of the many lessons my dearest mommy always taught me was to know what I wanted. Simple enough, or so I thought. She used to follow that up by making some 2000 year old reference to someone putting salt in my coffee because when they asked me what I wanted and I said "I don't care." We were never allowed to say, "I don't care." My father always taught us to take responsibility for our actions. No matter how stupid or well-intentioned they may have been. Foundational elements like these were taught all the time at my house. But these were two of my favorites. To know what you want before you start and to take responsibility for your actions.
Being the youngest and having drills like this repeated everyday without fail, I knew what I wanted most of the time. That does not mean that I got it, that lesson came more with the Negotiation-based topics. I also knew that no matter what I did, I took responsibility for it. My mistakes my many, many, many, many well you get the idea.
It wasn't until I started working at 16 that I realized that everyone didn't do this normally. Phrases like "The buck stops here." And "C.Y.A." had to be explained to me. I had questions like "Who else was going to stop the buck?" or I would say "B-Y-E." when someone said "C-YA." Take a second if you need to to catch that one.
Personal accountability should be a lesson taught to high school kids, along with Personal Finance, Social Responsibility, Dynamics of Personal Relationships, Professional Etiquette, but no, we have Chem-5 for the 2% of the school that passed Chem 1 thru 4. Don't even get me started on Gym or Health class, they usually have the teacher that is too out of shape teach this one. With 60% of Americans obese, 40% of marriages failing in the first 2 years, teenage single parent pregnancies up 200% per year for the last 5 years, if this isn't Armageddon, we are defiantly in the waiting room and we are up next.
But we are Americans, we like cigarettes, and cheese-burgers, monster-truck rallies and 10lbs of jewelry around our neck. We know more about what is going on within the confines of Jennifer Lopez's bedroom, than we do our own kids classroom or with our elected officials. Yet we are so quick to blame them when something is wrong or they do not take action. Did you vote, have you sent a letter to your congress man or woman stating your expectations? Is it really a ridiculous notion to do this?
Who is to blame? I'll tell you who, it's the dammed ___________________ (fill in any minority/majority, low/high income, political/stereotypical, race, creed, color, or point of origin classification of people to complete the quote.) Sound familiar?
In a world where fat people can sue McDonalds and Ms. America may have a slight drug dependency problem, our creed as Americans has long since left "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" and become "Over Indulgence, Sex with EVERYTHING, and the Right to Sue Anonymously."
Ladies and gents we are on a Krispy Crme Glaze covered slide to the KFC headless-feetless-featherless-boneless-"all natural" Mono-glutamate chicken grinder in HELL. Personally I think KFC should start using the elderly. Once you hit 80 years old, you are shipped off to the KFC ranch and made into chicken nuggets for your grandkids. Yup, granny-nuggets coming to a clogged colon near you.
When baby dolls in mini-skirts are given as toys to little girls we wonder why our young women dress that way? When your son is watches 9 hours of TV per day, and the 5 minutes commercials are set @ 2 minute intervals, we wonder why he has no attention span. When the decision to medicate a child with "too much energy" instead of taking them to the park or enrolling them in an after school program is the norm, we have a problem. Yet we still wonder how a 12 year old could weigh 190lbs.
We are whinny, sue-happy, diamond loving, lazy fat f*cks. And to the amateur stalker-opsi, who buy the bullsh*t tabloid photo's of Beyonce without makeup, stop wondering why a photographer can get $50k for a photo- DUH! That's your money! And if you aren't then congrats, I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to the short bus crew now, thanks.
What to do, what to do? As one of the most profound REAL role models of the 20 century once said. We must first " look at the man in the mirror." thanks MJ. Change starts from within. Stop throwing rocks at the glass, go into your kid's room, look under the bed, get the gun, climb the clock tower and do some real damage. Just remember to put it back, it isn't polite to go through other peoples belongings and kids need their privacy. Let me just pause here for a moment and remind the audience that I personally did not know kids rooms HAD doors until Jr. High when I started going to friends houses after school, before work.
I ask, no I beg you to look around and find something that you can improve on today. Remember; Happy, Healthy, Wealthy, Wise. 3 things a day for each goal and accomplish anything in 5 years.
I hope this little snipit of my insanity has gotten your attention. It is no one's fault but your own. Those who make a decision to live below means and have the ability and have resources to do more belong there. Those that live in poverty stricken areas should be given help they need to relocate to somewhere more financially beneficial. Lobbyist, Casino's, Fast-Food Companies, Alcohol and Tobacco and any other industries that make their billions from the last dollars of the lowest income intervals should do more to keep them alive. That's just good business.