Thursday, May 22, 2008

Maybe I just don't get it.

In a generation and culture whose senses are constantly bombarded by sights, sounds, images - moving and stationary - it is hard to get my peers' attention without these things.
Even so, tell me how seeing this:
or this:
Wouldn't make one want to do something about it?!


Maybe they are all so much more fucking ethnocentric than I thought. I hope that's not it.
Maybe you're just ignorant. (I'd say apathetic, but that's too kind. You're ignoring it.)
You know it's awful, and you let it go on. You say, let's focus on how happy we are.
How can you focus on happiness with the above images burned into your memory like an awful brand?

Sitting in suburbia, typing on my laptop, what did I do that makes me deserve this?
The answer is nothing.

I just don't get it. How one could not be fundamentally terrified of graduating from college and going into the workforce, doing no good? I just don't get it.

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