I think I finally get it. It took me a few years but it has finally sunk in. I’m talking about how the vast majority of the people in this country and continuously lied to and they know it. Yet they smile and take it anyway.
Like the line from the movie “You can’t handle the truth!”. That is what has happened to Americans, they can’t handle the truth.
Don’t tell Americans they are fat because they eat too much of the wrong things and don’t exercise, they don’t want to hear that. Tell them that is isn’t their fault and blame it on the fast-food places.
Don’t tell Americans that they should not have over-extended themselves on credit when they bought that $300, 000 house on a $50, 000 a year income, blame it on the mortage companies or the government.
Don’t tell Americans that they have become slaves to consumerism, that they are buying trendy shit that will not improve their lives on a deep level. Tell them that they have to have the latest mobile phone. They will buy it.
Don’t tell Americans that our Consitution is no longer worth anything and that we have become subjects to a tyrinnacle government that is worse that Orwell could have invisioned. Tell them that they have to be treated as criiminals when they fly, they had better have their “papers” with they when the travel and that half what they earn is not theirs, it belongs to the government. Hell, they will beleive you, conform to the rules and still think they are free!
People don’t want to hear the truth. Deep down they know what is happening (I think, maybe not) but they would rather beleive what they see and hear on TV and radio. Because if they face the truth, if they admit that they have ignored the lies than they have a responsibility to stop what is happening.
But that ain’t going to happen. People don’t have responsibility any longer. Men are no longer men, women have become characters out of “Sex in the City”. And they are happy with their roles it seems.
If they faced the truth, they would have to do something about it and it seems that taking responsiblity is no longer the American Way.
While delivering a speech on a whistle stop tour in Seattle, a supporter yelled to Truman, “Give ‘em hell, Harry!” Truman responded, “I don’t give them hell, I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.”
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Hm… Well sunshine, you know how I love to argue, so I have some questions for you here.
“Men are no longer men”
This is going to lead to a biiiig long rant, apologies in advance.
I don’t understand what you mean by men not still being men. They are just as much so as ever. A willingness to physically fight does not make one a man. In fact, one of the great things that men should have in common with beasts is a reluctance to fight, to fight only for a true purpose. I don’t think people starting barfights over a name called are real men.
One of my dear friends is talking to me and just said “Well, maybe he means homosexuals, they aren’t real men.” This is to you both.
Some of them aren’t. The ones who hide away because they are scared of what their family will think, the ones who refuse to fight for their rights, aren’t real men. The ones who admit the are gay and are damn proud are real men because that takes the courage of a true warrior.
Just throwing the idea out there.
Also, I would probably be very hard pressed to start a real physical fight with someone, but this doesn’t mean I couldn’t be a warrior. The stronger warrior uses thought before fists. Example, and an obvious one I’ll admit, was Ghandi. Look at how much he changed things for the better with entirely passive actions. He didn’t need to use physical violence to be a warrior, or a man. If not having the good old fighting spirit, meaning jumping directly to grab the guns and hunt those mofos down, means you aren’t a man… I’m damn glad I don’t associate with real men.
Rachel,
Please re-read my blog above. There was nothing in there where I said that a man was only a man if he was willing to fight nor is that what I believe to be true.
A man is not defined by his willingness to fight but if he is backed into a corner, or protecting his family, he had better fight very well.
I have several gay male friends and relatives. They are real men, being a men is not dependent on sexual preference.
I like the chart on this webpage and I think it says it better than I could, check out the table at this link:
http://www.diserio.com/malematrix.html
Again, I don’t know where you got the “real men must fight” idea but it was not from what I wrote.
Randal
Hm. I believe it was a misinterpretation on my part and I extend my apologies. Rereading it for the fourth time or so, I understand what you were saying.
And the chart is excellent by the way.