you know what I hate most?

Hate is a strong word that I rarely use.

Icon - Angry

I like to blog and complain about my country's problems. Because, really, you have to admit we have some serious issues that have been wildly out of control for quite some time. I don't have to know every single explicit detail about every single thing to know this is so. And I don't want the media to force feed me what I should or shouldn't be worried about. I see quite enough of humanity with my own two eyes.

What I hate most, more than anything in this world, is for someone to utter these words to me: "If you don't like what's going on in this country, leave." Especially when those words come from one of my own flesh and blood. That's really just downright RUDE.

I have thought about leaving this country, again, thank you very much. Why should I? I have just as much right to be upset with the residual effects of greedy human nature and corporate/governmental ass-banging gone wrong as those who propagated it have a right to be proud of their clever little deeds. There is probably a generation gap issue at the crux of it. But the fact of the matter is now I/we have to live with this mess. And as far as future generations? I just don't know...

It's not that I don't enjoy the freedoms we still have here. We all take them for granted. A lot of people don't realize that those freedoms are slowly slipping away. Because we are letting them. We are blindly handing over the control of our own lives because we don't want to be bothered with the sordid details of Life outside our small corner of America. If that doesn't scare the hell out of you, then go ahead and sit back and turn on Survivor or that stupid Bachelor(ette) show and everything will be okay. For a while.

As for me, complaining is better than complacency. That's my small contribution--it's what I can do for now. That and simplifying my own life. There, I've said it because I believe it and I won't take it back.