Ok, that's it.

Ok, call me reactionary, call me racist, call me xenophobic, call me what you will, but it’s time to close the borders. The world is a fucking cesspool and it’s leaking into our collective foundation. The country is ready to collapse, implode….

Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty wrong with the people that are already here (see my last post) but the sooner we close the borders and let the rest of the world handle itself for awhile (which, by the way, it’s perfectly capable of doing) the sooner we can get our act together and turn this country into what it has the capability of being: The land of the free.

Right now we are not free. We believe that we have free will, that we make our own decisions, that we’re each unique individuals marching to our own drum. Nothing could be further from the truth. We’re bombarded, saturated with sounds and images telling us that ‘something is wrong with you’ and this or that product or pill can fix it for you. Our culture has adopted the same flawed philosophy that Western medicine was founded on: treat the symptom, not the underlying cause. Tired of being fat? Take a pill and burn off the pounds! Tired of being ugly? Get plastic surgery, look like the stars! Hey! How about not eating fast food every day and taking a walk? And really, who gives a shit about what other people think of your looks? Why should you really care? Why obsess about something you have no control over? It’s time to take control of your own life and stop criticizing other people. It’s time to look in the mirror and like what you see and not have the desire to change it.

I’m sure by now, if anyone is reading this, that some would say “get off your high horse, asshole!” and perhaps justifiably so. But please understand that I don’t consider myself above my own critique of our population. I’m certainly guilty of most of what I’m complaining about. Ok, disclaimer over, back to the bitching.

Our country will never be a perfect paradise, nor should it be. But it’s certainly capable of being a hell of a lot better than it is. Does any other nation in the world have the same dichotomy of rich and poor on the same scale? I don’t’ think so. Why do we have homeless and hungry people? Why do we have any poor people at all? Certainly, some of these folks have chosen to live this way and some are mentally unbalanced and can’t help themselves. But I really believe that most of the problem lies with the fact that from the time we’re born were led to believe that the world owes something because we’re special…the rules don’t apply to us and everything will be handed to us on a silver platter. I’d like to believe that a majority of us know by now that this is not, in fact, the case…but we don’t. You still see people on TV screaming “Why didn’t the government help us?” and “What is the government going to do?” People, listen: The government is not your mommy and daddy. They aren’t gonna come rescue you from the monsters in your closet. For the most part they’re from rich, privileged families and don’t give a shit about you at all. And honestly they might not even recognize that there’s a problem.

Oh, and by the way, did you vote? Have you ever voted? If not, then shut up. If you’re not willing to take part in the democratic process and initiate change instead of wishing for it, then fuck off. If you’re willing to let other people make your decisions for you then you deserve everything you get. If you want things to change then speak up, take some action, get involved and vote. Get off your fat ass and do something about it, don’t stand around the water cooler at work, complain for five minutes and then go back to your desk after saying “Oh well, what are you gonna do?”. Do something.

People, the country isn’t going to change itself. It’s up to us.


M. PotPie