i used to get so excited over christmas. over the years though, more and more lately, it just seems more and more to me like it's just a bunch of people celebrating consumerism. celebrating consumerism and teaching our kids to celebrate consumerism and materialism. they strive to "be good" so they can "get more toys." ...then again it is only once a year.
this one year when i was little i hand-made a christmas card for every reindeer, santa claus and mrs. claus. ...later on i was soooooooo pissed when i found out santa isn't real. i wanted to say to my mom, "you let me do all that fuckin' work for NOTHING, bitch?!"
"i wanna meet the monkeys that made us," is what peter said a few days after i tried to explain evolution to him. ...did i already write about that? i can't remember. i figured i'd put it down just in case.
"We've created a fake world obsessed with fake things and now, as it begins to crumble and fall apart we're realizing--we must go back to the earth." --my friend Lindsay
lately i've been wondering more and more...how do i put it? all these things going on in the world, the stuff going on with wall street, the indefinite suspension of habeus corpus, the recession, the fact that china is buying property in our national parks....all these seemingly preposterous and rage-enducing goings-on in the world that my facebook friends post links about on their walls....i've just been wondering how serious it all is in the grand scheme of things. i've been wondering if i would still think the nation is in a highly serious and compromised condition/position if i were alive during either world war, the civil war, the vietnam war, the great depression or anything like that.
the other day i learned that one out of ever four people in jail in the world are americans.
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