Land of opportunity?
What’s the land of opportunity mean anymore? A land of bitchy whiny assholes who’ve never had a real hard time. Think your life sucks? Think it’s a tragedy you have to drive an hour to that Steak and Shake? Think it’s a crime you can’t buy an iPad every month?
Not to reiterate a depressing line of reasoning done injustice by yuppie know-it-alls who don’t eat meat, but America doesn’t have it bad. Try living in a hut. Try eating leaves cause you’re so hungry there’re sores covering your body. Fuck your shitty emotions, you haven’t seen it bad.
Land of opportunity. Opportune to blame everyone else for your lack of triumph. Opportune for sending anger to those who try and help. Opportune for the lack-wits who want a grandiose engagement because they turned 16. Opportune to be over-privileged and self-indulgent.
What if I did say “think of the kids”? What if I did mention the rockets hitting suburbs in Afghanistan or Israel. Think they don’t like Lady Gaga? Not into Harry Potter? Snap out of it. How would you live if your life was threatened everyday? Would you read a fucking book? Would you watch some fucking crazy bitch dance around with angel wings? Or would you spend every minute trying to love the ones around you? How often we go without expressing love to our family nowadays because.
Because they forgot to grab extra soy sauce. Because they pissed you off. That’s the life we embrace. Encourage triviality. Lack of perpetual danger brings about perpetual boredom. Circumstances must be dwelled upon. Momentary lacks of judgment can ruin your life, not bullets. Not scalping. Not dishonor. Not idealism.
Idealism and honor are forgotten buzz words. Embrace synergy, fuck politeness. Embrace the dope, fuck the genuine. Honest efforts are laughed at, because what’s important is no longer what you’ve gained respect for, but what you’re known for as a sensation. Let’s all laugh at the men and women who’ve worked their entire lives, to the bone. Let’s all let’em know they should have just posted their dog on youtube and made 1000 a month on click-throughs. Let’s give any WW2 vets heart-attacks while we dress up as Nazis and have sex. Let’s mock care.
We can’t care. There’s nothing to force us. The opportunity is so abundant in this land, we can’t see it anymore. The majority of us will continue to tube-feed the things we’re told will make us happy. The majority will take opportunity as a hand-out, while the ones who dream of ever having one dry up and fade away.
Land of opportunity? Fuck it.
