With the current state of the world, it would be very easy to dismiss what I’m about to say as being cynical as opposed to being full of what I view to be truth. It would very easy to say that things will get back to normal soon and everything will be hunky-dory…(My spell check didn’t catch that? THAT’S a REALLY bad sign…) It would be simple to ignore the issues that are having an effect on you, your friends, and their families. I’m just a real negative guy then and I suppose I’m paranoid for assuming things are in such poor shape.
I can’t wait to read the article you write afterwards then…I guess…
As of late, I’ve considered myself to kind of be in a slump. Not depression: depression is crippling and allows for you shut off the outside world entirely. It’s not being pissed: being pissed means that you exhaust yourself by doing physical harm to people and things around you.
But it’s not sheer joy either (By the way, “sheer joy” would be a great idea for a product name…I’m taking offers starting right now…) because it seems as of late that just enough of everything is starting to get progressively worse just enough that it’s kind of brought the whole mood of everything south.
In the past few months, things have seemed a little bit off. And not off in a Mel Brooks-haha way, like more in a kind of not surprised to see a guy in a deer suit walk up behind a deer and make sweet, sweet love to it kind of way. And that scares the shit out of me…
Obviously, one of the reasons this is the current state of things is due to what we believe our rights are, and the ridiculous lengths we will go to in order to prove that we are entitled to make our own decisions and that we are smart enough to do just that.
Lately, I’ve started to realize that I don’t think that this is the case. Some of us can make decisions for ourselves, but there is a large fraction of the population that shouldn’t be allowed to do whatever they want, because for some reason or another, something inside of them is just busted and can’t be fixed. So people continue to believe it’s okay to just collect money in aid and have kids until there’s so many people that half of them have to stand in the street. Of course, by the time they have to stand out there, they’ve reached the legal drinking age of 13 and are out there glaring at me like I’m wearing a fucking diaper on my head for driving down a street in my car, which is what I originally thought that streets were for in the first place, but as I write this article I’m beginning to think I’ve completely fallen out of touch with 85% of everybody.
It’s what the system has trained most young people to do…I mean, although it’s insanely fucked up to say, I ACTUALLY REALIZE why people continue to pump out children at an alarming rate…our current welfare system has trained them to do that…You have a kid, the state throws more money your way…You’re gonna be trained to have another kid. And then what you get in a decade and a half is a house full of 5 -15 year olds who fight about doing anything and continue to leech off the government.
People who TRULY cannot work should be allowed to collect welfare. If you have part of a tire iron stuck in your head, I’ll pay for you to eat government cheese. That doesn’t bother me. What bothers me is the people sitting on the front porch getting hammered on my dime. Again. Every fucking day. I mean, I like to have a good time…but all of us know at least one person like that. You go over to their house and they’re doing nothing but fucking up. And then you see the stub from their unemployment check on the floor and realize they’re making just as much money as you are for sitting around and not working or doing anything at all…
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No WONDER nothing fucking gets done anymore.
And here again, I’m not ripping on underprivileged people. I always used to think that nobody wanted to be poor, and totally believe it…but surely you’d understand why one would question that nowadays…Poverty has been proven to run in cycles. For every rags to riches story you hear about an inner city kid going to Yale, becoming a lawyer, and rescuing his family out of the throes of such poverty, there’s 350,000 people that DIDN’T happen to, and a lot of people forget that. The way to break the cycle is a mystery to everyone, but having children at the current birth rate sure as shit isn’t the solution.
If we’re going to beat this thing (And for the record, we aren’t…so this is just wishful thinking) we’re going to need to do a serious overhaul of the way we assist others who need government money. We need to hire a bunch of people (See how I did that?) to go through EVERYBODY who’s using taxpayer money and re-evaluate every individual’s situation. I know this sounds like it’s going to cost a lot of money, but it’s more proactive than what we’re doing at the moment.
In conclusion, (and they say I didn’t learn anything in high school…well….) I think that the reason everybody seems to be satisfied with life as it is because instead of one particular thing (for example, Homeland Security on 9/11) being in shambles, it seems like just a little bit of everything is suffering only substantial damage. The structure is still standing, although it’s very frail and losing support quickly. The parallel of the overpopulation problem and the failing welfare system is simply just one example of how the world is falling apart. There are countless other examples, too many to list here.
When it does all go down, it’s going to be thoroughly entertaining. I mean, we’re already behaving poorly as a society so who KNOWS what we’ll be acting like when the apocalypse does finally roll around. I think we’re a whole lot closer than we would like to believe.
Say, what’s that red thing?
