I am sickened by the goody-goody do-gooder group-think pervading

[homelandpunk]

american society since the Bush coup, and which has drugged majorities of people in this country. When did being goody-goody become so popular? Everyone is so desirous to make sure that everyone knows they are patriotic, and religous, and against drugs, and illicit sex. When did this country become so full of these types? Why is being "good" become so fashionable? "I'm gooooooooooooooooooood."
Grow up and be real.
All this Passion crap. More goodness doped with BS guilt.
When did people in this country feel it necessary to go en masse to see a stupid jesus movie so they could affirm their goody-goodness?
"I watched The Passion and was mooooooved. Drugs are baaaaaad. I just loooooove my country. Janet's boob was wrooooong."
Good god.
It is sick to see young people with nothing but desire to please and ameliorate. Personally, it scares the shit out of me. I swear to Koresh it is becoming too...I was gonna say too Stephen King-ish, but it is more subtle (and scarier) than that. I just listen to all these Stepford Citizens that surround me and wonder if I am dreaming that people were, at one time, NOT like this. I really question myself: were people like this all the time? Yet with a gnawing feeling that no, they were NOT. That perhaps, Something Bad has happened. Maybe I am going crazy.
A Chimp has a coup and two building fall down, and then....strange dyanamic societal change, entrenched in the things that have caused all past horrors and atrocities. It's too weird.

[Mari333]

1. Just avoid them, I do

if I allow those kind of people in my life at any level, in any way, I wouldnt be able to get thru the day. I have chosen the life of a hermit, until the world starts behaving in a more sane manner.
It is mind boggling isnt it, that people can get so worked up about a movie, and not give a goddamn shit about 20,000 dead civilians and 550 dead soldiers who died for nothing.

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