Love the People

I am afraid of people. not individuals or small groups, mind you, but just us. The Masses, I guess you could say.  Especially America, and every other privileged, rich, first world country's people. 

Libertarianism and national pride are my main concerns. we've all been told since birth that we should do what we want to do and not worry about what anyone else says. "be true to your heart" and all. But then, at the same time, we are bombarded with this weird sentiment that anyone born outside the US is somehow inferior to the ones born within its confines. Somehow us United States natives passed through some cosmic phenomena on our way to mommy's belly that let us achieve a level of awesome unattainable otherwise. 

I'm sure this is a recurring idea in most other countries, But I don't live no-wer' but 'merica,  so thats all I know. but even here you can see the same thing rampant in our religions, states, schools, everything. now, I'm not saying a bit of friendly rivalry is bad. quite the opposite really. It's nice to get worked up for a fun event, but todays people take it to far. As far as most rabid cougar fans see, Blue ridge might as well have raped their mothers, killed their children and sent that nasty chain letter that destroyed their love life because they didn't forward it to ten people. 

We've got so wrapped up in this it seems, that we really just don't really care what's going on. at all. Another thing that irks/scares me is this pure-libertarian mentality that seems to be propagating at a rather fast rate. Everything is for me, and I can do everything by myself. sounds very similar to the average pre-teen's veiw of the world. and preteens don't exactly better the human race do they? (eewwwwwwww....). It is very hard to make real progress as a race with this pervading MEMEMEMEMEME! mentality going on. I know that we've made some pretty awesome developements in the past few decades, and that's great. but really, that isn't progress as I'd like to see it. in my opinion our "breakthroughs" (of which about 50% seem to me to just be rehashes of old stuff just a little better) are akin to said preteen growing boobs. they're a nice addition, but really, the girl is still an annoying preteen. I want to see MATURITY in pre-teen america. and not just america. the world. We need to shut the hell up about "me" and start trying to move "us" forward.

*disclaimer: I wrote this in like tree sittings, so it's bound to be a bit inconsistent. so look at it more as a vent than a well thought out gripe. kthnx. I stop typing now. I has the dumb