My Current Reality

someone mentioned to me a while back that if you're not unnecessarily liberal when you're young and then equally yet oppositely conservative when you're older, then you will probably never have a true grasp on the way the world works. this may be true, and it accurately describes me to this juncture in my life.

my problem, though, is this: what about the 30 to 40 years between the time that i start dumping money in to a 401k and the time that i cash it in to buy a lake house?

this is probably whats wrong with middle aged, middle class americans, and may very well explain why we spend years 25 through 60 of our lives living vicariously through people like bret michaels and midget mac rather than researching which of the two presidential candidates is the lesser of two dimwits.

seriously guys, are we that easily distracted? is the kool-aid that strong? what would happen if all of a sudden millions of americans started actively taking an interest in what was going on around them, even if just on a small scale? what if rather than depending on low priced salmonella injected tomatoes from wal-mart you bought local produce from a farmer's market? imagine that, stimulating the local economy and eating healthy at the same. i'm pretty sure i just solved america's recession problem and it's obesity issue in one fell swoop. and i dealt a crushing blow to the retail anti-christ. not bad for an alcoholic college dropout.

as it relates to more global issues, i think that the majority of these conundrums could be dealt with by a very remedial means of population control by gagging certain propaganda campaigns. simply put, people that need to be constantly reminded not to smoke, do drugs or have promiscuous sex with many partners would probably be better of dead anyways. besides, imagine how much crude oil would be saved because these assholes weren't driving around looking to score dope, pussy, or tobacco. i guess you could call it a more advanced natural selection theory. instead of spending millions of government dollars trying to keep my downstairs neighbor off meth and on welfare, why don't we just let the guy kill himself in a moment of delusional invincibility, and then invest my hard earned tax dollars into........ACTUALLY STIMULATING THE FUCKING ECONOMY. or developing a vehicle that runs on a relatively renewable fuel source, like the blood of the homeless.

i guess for tonight my infinite wisdom well has run dry, but i imagine that i will soon enough develop another brilliant idea that will save american lives will ridding the world of meth heads and the homeless.