"When you become grown you can make your own rules until then........"
That ever so popular refrain has been un ethusacticly absorbed by millions of children spanning a myriad of generations. The trails of subjugation under parental authority were eased by the the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel provided by that seemly ancient phrase, for it gave us the ever necessary ingredient for a healthy human existence; hope. No matter how truly oppressive or relatively tranquil ones youth may have been, the yearning for lack of restrictions on ones desires and aspirations drives all of us at one time.
Untill.....
Reality sets in ....We repeat the cycle ...we control our own little domions....while...mostly conforming to a admittedly more congenial version of modern serfdom....Then sometimes when time affords us the freedom to ponder, we wonder if the reason some of our guardians where so tyrannical was a clandestine effort to get some of the power that they where not granted in the world back. We conform and throw are hats into the ring, while soljurining through thoughts. The process of silent personal conversation manifests many queries, one of which is as debatable as it is troubling. Do we on a personal level or even a unison defined macro one, craft the "rules" that govern our life? If a affirmative response to that question is the response of the delliued, how do we, as human beings navigate such a harsh reality? Given the lantet but assured personal angst it must cause us, how does it effect our interactions with others enduring the same plight?
Despite all of the historical lore of unity and benevolence towards ones fellow man, American history is awash in countless instances of acts done in the vein of selfish procurement. While we may be denizens of a profoundly religious state whose conduits to God constantly preach a un Egyptian like gospel warning us that, "we can't take our worldly possions with us", the attainment of such has defined our lives so intimately for generations we zellouly engage in acts that proportly will doom us for eternity. While this is seemingly a overtly consious contridiction, the amount of ratinlalzation and repression utilized to maintain esteem and image through our litterly inherent nature of want could dispupt cosmic law.
Ironicly while labor intensive, the personal matiral cost of the enduring charade of caring is little.
Justificacation doesn't require moralty for its construction.
Those ravaged in the wake of our rapicious desire be damned. Treat others as your would treat yourself.............. right?
Despite the given tone, what is in question here is not some Hobbsian view of the world, but the merrits of a worldly constrcut that tranforms caring indiviugals in to cold hearted calulating souls. How often, better yet how recently have you heard the refrain, "I only care about my kids/family, and thats it", delviered in a bluntly hardened tone? When the often heartfelt proclimatin is made, its tone denotes a level of admonshiment for those who foolishly flounder in the thought of the collective good. Depending who is exposusing such a belif at a givien time, its often saddingly amusing to compare them and thier views to the nhilist philosphy bestowed upon and proporteldy held by whom many classyify as the savage youth, who often state "I dont give a fuck about nothing except me and my niggaz". Personal destractions of some aside what does the transformation good beings into surfacely heartless human actors say about our way of life? Is a system which takes a clean slate and scribes upon it a formula for miniputivleness and callous worth praising? Yet we all play the lottery.
If the prior legions of our clan where incompitent in there navigation of our beloved scheme, we are programed to analyze and rectify the mistakes of those before us, while escaping the moster of poverty with little to no regaured for those left to be feasted upon by its beastly nature, with the consilation of knowing lack of caring is more humanitarien then the complete distain many others hold for the "refugees" in our system. Lack of derison of those beneath you due to the laws of stratifaction, cannot be seen as comendable more than it is act of passive agression. While they do not feed the machine accelerent, they are willful pistons none the same. More fine tuned machnary understand that the beration and slander of those under them is essentail to the stablitly of there postion. Venomous speech also holds the dual quality of consoling ones thoughts of inner guilt, before they are transformed into to policy ensuring fewer will be able to vye for thier rightfully earned perch.
Niggaz leave the hood for the suburbs. Imigrents leave there lands for America.
What does that say?
The vacating of less desirble sitution is not something to be decried and often should be commended, however, the complete abandonment and slander of of those left behind is ashameless and often wicked practice.
Even so called forieners pay remittance.
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