Dependence Day
Wake up, have a cigarette and a coffee, take your medication, spend almost $5.00 a gallon on gas, go to work, come home and watch television, have a beer. And then you realize that it’s Independence Day. You should celebrate… if only you weren’t so dependent on your lifestyle. But if you think about it, the whole holiday is already ruined. How can we celebrate independence when our government insists on leeching off of foreign oil and continues to dig deeper into debt with other nations? How can we celebrate freedom when we’re forced into a life of servitude in a capitalist culture with a failing economy? The oil and drug companies work with our government and media to ensure that we are dependent upon them. It’s a vicious cycle, though, as they are dependent upon us to continue to live as we do so that they can profit off of us. Most people seem content with that – they’re lighting off fireworks outside as I type this, dependent upon tradition and consumer habits, slaves to the system. I guess it sort of makes sense: our nation was founded upon double standards (slave owners who wanted to be free, killing people off to build communities, burning witches while proclaiming freedom of religion). I’m an American, give me a firecracker.
I’m listening.