Wrestle with our familiar friend.

For some reason - I would hope - this article had a lot of impact on me this evening. Three Juveniles, One Slain in DC over 24 Hours. Seems another crime wave is washing over Washington, DC. In our White House and our streets.

Beautiful city. Pathetic infrastructure. Pathetic leadership. People dying with the Washington Monument as their last image. In this modern America we have a failure of our fellow people. Our cities are a complete abomination. Our local and federal government is inept at best and criminal in neglect most often.

I'd consider the likelihood that someone may retort with, "well, at least you have the freedom to say what you want". In theory, I suppose it's true. Even written on a piece of paper 10 inches behind glass and stowed away in a basement in my great nation's capital. So yes, those words do exist. However, my guess is that the government has become so incompetent it couldn't even enforce a change. It's having a jolly old time kidnapping people from Airports but when it comes to actually persecuting something that is accurate and of substance. Impossible.

This is not my America. No way. My son's who sleep soundly will be given dreams, perhaps fed honestly, that they will be able to do anything they set their minds to in this great country. Perhaps even be President. The American dream is almost a mockery of itself at this point and he'll have to live through the crashing reality that it'll be even more flimsy when he is old enough to pursue it.

So far what I'm attempting to acheive for my life is a 'safe and sound' life. Good I suppose - as fucking inspiring as milk-wheat toast. America is all about the dull, long, boring and incompentent existance. Give me my vinyl sided cookie cutter home on .25 acres with a fence and no culture for 200 miles. Let's have my 2.5 kids and drive to work to have meaningless conversations. To share nothing. To get nothing. To make the rich male even richer. Watch as their salaries increase, their bonuses increase and the hard working labor vats get flushed from the system to bring up the bottom line. It's not a charity - it's a fucking souless grind.

We've all heard this same pity party before. Like a tape on play-repeat. It's not because it doesn't hold some truth. In fact, if you sit down and think about it, you'll only get depressed. So we don't. We don't think about it. We don't address it. We watch ultra violence on television. Ban pornography because it makes us cum. A terrible thing. Instead we'd rather be hiding our children from our own culture. A futile effort it appears as they shoot each other, stab each other, beat each other up. So we create new schools, only to find the same problem. Drugs in catholic schools, cheaters in Harvard, sluts in charter schools. It's not our fault - it's the younger generation. Their fault. Heck, they even have shitty music. My generation has the best music ever. It has nothing to do with us. We set no example.

Kick back. Relax. It's modern. It's America. It's our lives. Don't do anything. Ever.

-v.