And it isn't only for my sake. I am not particularly oppressed but the people around are barely allowed to think differently without being shutdown; I almost want to weep for them.
No one is allowed to be gay, Native Americans can't be left the fuck alone, teachers can't hate their students, teenagers can't pray, people can't smoke in a car with their child, teenagers can't see nakedness or, God forbid, have sex (When biology does such torturous things too a 14 year old and then society tells that 14 year old that all of his urges and feelings and instincts are BAD, BAD, BAD, a person is bound to become a little confused and abashed about sexuality in general), boys can't like ballet, youth can't be republican, an 18 year old can't have beer, a student can't have her own prescription, a movie can't cuss (but blowing a German's head off? Now that's just cool dude.), a woman can't dye her hair blonde, you can't skateboard without being a hooligan, you can't have tattoos or colored hair without being a miscreant, you can't vote directly for your chosen candidate, you can't write in a journal without being emo, you can't feel as if you were born into the wrong gender and body, and you most definitely can't decide that you are right and your Representative is wrong because the media will change your mind, and if they don't well there doesn't seem to be a goddamned thing you can do about it anyway because billions of dollars have been invested in convincing the important people otherwise. And when you do try to do something about it or stand up for somebody or yourself you get mocked, laughed at, and ignored.
Why is it so infinitely important to control other people? Why are we so afraid of each other? Why do we hate so many things? Why do we manipulate? Why do we sell our Senate seats? Why has the Information Age coincided with the Unhealthy, Lazy, Indifferent, and Ignorant Age? Why?
Sometimes I just feel like "What the HELL am I going to do about it and why the fuck should I?"
Fuck!
Girls can't go potty in the boy's bathroom...Or wait,can they in some states?
ReplyDeleteShit's fucked up. I think about it, too. You're far too right.
ReplyDeleteTestify!
ReplyDeleteWhat can you do? First, figure out why people want to control others so very much (I don't mean that in a condescending teachery way -- when you figure it out, let me know) and then work on two things: tell the people who are being controlled that they are puppets, and they shouldn't be, and tell the people who are puppeteers that they aren't any more free than are their puppets -- and that's not a good way to be, either. To hold a man down in a ditch, under your control, you have to get down in the ditch, too. Things would work out a lot better if people would just let everyone else live how they want to live.
Gotta say, though. It isn't always easy to let people do what they want. Especially when what they want to do is fucking stupid.
Why the fuck should you try? Because you want to be free yourself. That's why. And the first step to freeing yourself is never to control another. The second is to free as many others as you can. Well, those may not be the first two steps -- waking up and deciding to be free is right up there, too -- but as Bugs Bunny would say, they're lulus!