By Linda Mains
Personally, I am so tired of the; me-against-you mentality,
that no one here ever says…but everyone here realizes exists.
Where everything and everyone is throw away…and people love
seeing other people doing badly, no they don’t just love it in America…they
REALLY love it (even family members love seeing other family members doing
badly), after which they’ll say; “oh, that poor so and so!” Which is all a phony
play to actually give a shit, the only problem is nobody really does. This is a
place where people worry about everything all the time. From jobs to money - to
family - to friends, and everybody is always constantly worried about losing everything
here under the great American Apple Pie.
Do I want to escape this backward way of being? Well I can
tell you this; I don’t believe that I was born to become any employer’s,
working-class-slave. I’m a slave that becomes an asset and not an actual
employee (where I’m respected). In America I constantly sit and worry, if this day
will be the last day, in which I will have a job…for this or that punk-corporation.
Where does it end? I mean all of the madness?
My Grandfather and my family members before me never had to
live this way…remember the 70’s what happened to that mentality? Where all you
needed was love? Whatever happened to the love? Where did it go? Why were
people so nice to me when I said to them; “can I give you a big hug?” Maybe
they needed a hug that day? Or maybe there is so little-love left in America
that any form of love to the unloved can and will brighten there lonely days?
Another problem people are forgotten here…they become shut-in’s and forgotten.
Another American tragedy!
All the things that I know are happening here, I don’t want
to live this way for the rest of my life! Just existing and not really living
any type of real-life, while alive in America…or maybe, it’s just the nerdy
yuppies of the Valley that have this; all for me attitude? All I ever hear is
my family, my life, my home and the up-yours mentality! Have people stopped caring
about other people these days? Well here’s the scary part people…if we stop
caring about each other what are we going to do, when we actually have to come
together to save each other? Remember the Holocaust?
That’s when we’ll all sit back and wonder why Billy Bob went
and shoot all those people at the mini-mart? Isn’t the reason pretty self-explanatory?
The reason is it’s because he never got a chance, and the chances that he did
get where whipped-out from under him, by a jealous hateful co-worker, who was a
power junkie…that had something to prove and picked him to prove it. These
monster’s excuses will always be; “we gave him a chance! We can’t understand
why he’s upset?” Did they really give him a chance? Or did they only give him a
taste at a chance? I don’t think that they gave him a real chance, they pulled
the rug out from under his feet, and then said; oh and by the way…we’ll give
you a good reference. These monsters are the same people, who get shoot by those
same crazy people, and as they are breathing their last breaths. They can’t for
the live of them, figure out why such a bad-end happened to them as their main
last thought.
Yes that was a worst case-scenario…but really, we have
become a very numb, uncompassionate, uncaring, unsympathetic, society. I tell
it like it is…oh yea, some of us will fight the powers that be. We’ll wave our
banners of support; we’ll march with about as much passion as someone with a lobotomy.
Then we will scream at the top of our lungs…yes we did something? Did we? Did
this march or that one really change anything? Or are we still that same-group
of ungrateful f*cks we’ve always been? As soon as the dust clears we’ll be back
at our selfishness and capitalistic ways. I don’t want to be jaded! I don’t want to seem
Anti-American either.
My only question is why can’t we be kinder and judge-people based
on their worth; not the color of their skin, what they’ve done in their pasts,
how rich they are or aren’t, if they’re poor, or because of any other type of
bias we may have against them. They might even be ill or homeless? Either way…we
won’t give them a chance! They’ll lose everything they have, and wind up
sleeping in our malls parking lot, just like one woman I saw. All in the name
of capitalism! Capitalism is where the few have everything; while they laugh at
the ones that don’t. These are the same people who love turning people into
these shells of people, they love turning people homeless, and jobless because
it gives them power. It’s the type of power that money can’t buy, it’s the destruction
of another person.
My Grandfather came to California to work for N.A.S.A…with
only two college classes under his belt, and with a whole lot of enthusiasm, he
achieved his goals, and then went on to buy the parts for the first space
shuttle to land on the Moon. Will I be able to say the same…? Will any of us be
able to say the same?
Those types of American opportunities are dead and gone! Now
everybody in America wants to be the next big winner on American Idol, or they
want to win the lotto, or become a rock or rap star. You or I will never have my Grandfather’s opportunities
without spending thousands and thousands of dollars in college and or graduate
schools. I really believe that the American dream is dead, and I believe that
we’ve all allowed, threw our sheepish ways, by allowing our Politicians to take
the wheel…to kill that dream! Our kids will soon have even worse lives then we did!
They’ll have no hope of ever owning or dreaming of owning their own homes, and
wasn’t that why the first settlers who came to America escaped from England in
the first place? Wasn’t that escape made from England so that they could own property?
Oh and wasn’t it also to escape from the Aristocrats…well it didn’t take long
for them to destroy the American-dream in the New land…did it?
