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Back in high school, I remember having conversations with my friends about how royally our generation got screwed, and why we're so cynical and apathetic because there's no real evils to fight against, and how our parents were "lucky" to have grown up during the Civil Rights struggles and Vietnam.
Well, now we've got both of those unfolding, and we've got it much, much worse than our parents did, because EVERYONE is against us, including them. We have no Walter Cronkites left, all we have are a bunch of Geraldos at best. Where are our Abbie Hoffmans? Where are our Huey Newtons, Malcolm X's, and MLKs?
The Bush Administration makes Nixon's administration look like FDR. His presidency has been nothing more than an all out assualt on everything we hold dear. In the span of two years, he's flushed our security, our economy, our civil rights, our environment, and our standing in the world, however tenuous it was before, down the toilet, and he's wiped his ass with the Constitution.
And yet we keep screaming out in the Wilderness, and the media is only tentatively voicing our concerns, and even then they do so in such a vague, non-threatening way as to make it almost completely pointless. They're so fucking scared and cowed by this administration that they're careful not to even say the word "lie".
We should be out in the streets right now, but what are we doing? We're waiting for some mythical Messiah to deliver us, some deus ex machina to descend and save us from Bush.
It's all well and good for us to sit here and carp about the neverending stream of lies that they strafe us with, but why can't we organize and make these things happen?
If I had half a chance to go back in time, I'd slap the shit out of high school me, and tell myself what a stupid wish I'd made.
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