We’re small, but many.

I’m in an inspired mood right now, so I’ll just let it flow….

I was reading a book just now (Nuclear Madness), and I realized just how small we’ve been made. Did you know that the United States Government injected dozens of pregnant women with radiation? That they poisoned 49 mentally retarded boys as an “experiment”? Or howabout the old “germ in a lightbulb” trick? Why are we tools? Your life is just a number to them! They are willing to throw you away – to waste you – for the sake of a fucking experiment! Hiroshima and Nagasaki were experiments as well. The Japanese government was already scheduled to surrender within a few months of the bombing. And what, you ask, is the goal of this experimentation? The development of bigger nuclear weapons, which will of course lead to millions of other deaths. Why?!

Why are we tools? Why do we blindly trust these people to decide how we die? I am not advocating anarchy – no, that would be a step backwards. I am demanding change. How the hell are these people our leaders? Why can’t we remove them from power? Isn’t that the premise of our government, after all? That we have the right, and presumably the ability, to reorder our government? And why not?

My dream in life is to more or less become a writer. The obvious course of action from there would be to become a fat, rich, capitalist bastard. I could then live my life happily and comfortably behind the gates of my safe little mansion. At the same time, though, I want to change the world. I see these idiots on TV who obviously aren’t acting in my best interest (nor yours, or most other citizens…). So I think to myself: How will this lower my quality of life? How much will I, and my family, and my friends, suffer because this idiot in a suit is concerned only with his paycheck? You should ask yourself the same question. They lie and cheat and ignore the course of logic all day long.  Senator John Doe wins because he gets paid no matter what. I want to change this. Like I said, being a writer would be cool, but at the same time, I want to lead people. Politics would be nice, but I’ll give you twenty bucks the next time a semi-radical, video-game playing Athiest like myself gets elected to any office. There’s a thousand different problems we need to solve, each more dangerous than the last. If we don’t blow ourselves up, global warming will kill us. If we don’t pull out of Iraq now, we’ll provoke more terrorist attacks. AIDs and bird-flu will kill whoever survives the Osama attacks. The economy is sterile, and our youngest generation of kids have exceeded expectations in both obesity and stupidity.

So what can we do?

Hell if I know. But we should at least try.

~ by tom133t on September 1, 2007.