i'm starting this thread because of firstly my personal bitterness, but more importantly to ask you what you think about our society. please do not allow this to degenerate into a religious discussion, seriously.
well i wrote this for an away message yesterday, let's skip over why, but this is the full text that i wanted to type (not enough space on AIM) share your thoughts.
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I'm sick and tired of it, Kids running around trying to disagree with every ****ing establishment they see, for no other reason than to whine and bitch about a society that they nevertheless continue to patronize in all its splendors and glory. They rag on the status quo for no other reason than that it is the status quo, while offering no pragmatic solutions to real world problems. They are the most spoiled and pampered of society yet they are dedicated to denouncing it out of their own boredom and their liking of the sound of their own voice. As if their constant bitching will feed one hungry child or shelter one homeless family. If you're so angry then why aren't you organizing a revolution in the hills, instead of typing on your IBM laptop sipping a Frappaccino, listening to your BSB? GET OVER IT!
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the main reason? well i was going through other BBS's, (ones i don't troll...) and i came across a few that really make me ****ing angry. they're made by kids around my age. well not really kids then, but still... and the strange thing is that these kids are all well-to-do kids, raised in middle class families, with money, bought their kids what they want, they're pampered, they're all in ivy league institutions.... yadda yadda. yet some of these kids, have no appreciation of what it takes to make the world turn, and constantly bitch moan whine and generally act like assholes, to anything they dont like, which happens to be everything.
i was most offended by some of these kids who are constantly ragging on Rudy Giuliani. why? because firstly i've always supported Rudy, because i've lived in NYC for a hell of a long time and i remember my dad getting the business end of a revolver shoved in his face, and me almost getting stabbed in the subway during the dinkins administration, and oh yeah, our house was burglerized when we had literally no money in the bank. fun ****ing fun. Rudy cleaned all taht up and i'm eternally grateful. Second, Rudy is the greatest mayor in new york history, barring from contention with fiorello laGuardia. he's had problems with the police, yes, one transit worker strike yes. but even before 9-11, he's done more for the city already, in an 8 year span, than david dinkins and ed kosh could have done in ten lifetimes. and after 9-11, for the sake of FU-CKING SOLIDARITY, we should at least be behind him. Yet these kids, who LIVE in NYC, have the audacity to criticize him, at a time like this, take his quotes (knowingly and deliberately) out of context, try to bash him, and denouce things like the time square initiative (which incidentally, removed the whole fuking red light district from middle of manhattan) HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY BITCH ABOUT GETTING PORN SHOPS OUT OF A PLACE LIKE TIME SQUARE?!?! it"s like complaining about getting the graffiti off the streets of harlem, or removing raw sewage from the grand canyon. obvoiusly good things, yet these kids try to pick faults out of them. WHY!?! i ask, WHY!?!?! like they can handle something like 9-11? if they were mayor of NYC and that happened, most likely you'd find them in their office hanging off a beam off their own intestines the next day. they have had 2 months to think about the actions of the government during the crisis, RUDY HAD 2 seconds, it was fuking real time. WHO ARE THEY TO SAY THEY KNOW BETTER?!
what's this world coming to? these kids (rightfully adults now, 18+) will disagree with everything and anything they come across, simply for the fact that it is not theirs. they are priviledged children, not born into poverty or any such thing. they are lucky enough to be born in a society which allows them to actualize far more than others. yet they sit on their asses and b!tch all day.
firstly there's far worse problems in the world than the corruption of the american media. kids in uganda are running around with their hands and feet cut off. that's worse than CNN giving bad footage.
secondly these kids patronize the very society they whine so much about. they wear name brand clothing, they go to ivy league schools, the stuff they eat, the water they drink, the air they breathe, all supplied by the powers to be. yet none of these kids are even willing to acknowledge the good things that has come from the collective will of a hundred million souls. nor are they willing to take arms and seriously fight against the tyranny and oppression they in such loud tones rant about. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT OR GO HOME.
don't get me wrong, i think there are plenty of things wrong with the government's policies. but while i criticize, i'm not all words, and i don't do it indiscriminantly. i can recognize when the government does good things, and i can acknowledge when the government tries hard to deal with a crisis, i can fully appreciate it. in fact, i hardly ever talk about my "resentment" towards the government, unless i'm talking about specific instances of injustices. why? because what i feel towards the government is not really resentment at all, i can tell both the right and the wrong of government policy, in fact, in school i'm studying the system, to learn to work with the system, to institute changes which i think are necessary to help more people. i am workign with the system to make it better, whereas they are working against the system to no end at all.
i dont' classify myself as patriotic to this government. nor will i tell someone to shut up if they are addressing a particular grievance against a particularly problematic policy, something like the DMCA or the SSSCA. i know history well enough to judge the good things from the bad. i remember in another post i wrote that "while i criticize the government, i never failed to appreciate the fact that i CAN criticize it, that i have the right to do that, and that alone makes this country worth living in." the government is far from perfect, and in its current state, i find it difficult to swear my allegiance to it, over my allegiance to humanity, but at least i'm doing something to help change it.
my understanding is that in this sick and twisted world, some people just don't know who they are, and they can only define who they are by tearing down others, not unlike bin Laden, who would have been an unknown if he didn't start blowing sh!t up. they're sad pathetic people.
so ends my bitter rant.
well i wrote this for an away message yesterday, let's skip over why, but this is the full text that i wanted to type (not enough space on AIM) share your thoughts.
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I'm sick and tired of it, Kids running around trying to disagree with every ****ing establishment they see, for no other reason than to whine and bitch about a society that they nevertheless continue to patronize in all its splendors and glory. They rag on the status quo for no other reason than that it is the status quo, while offering no pragmatic solutions to real world problems. They are the most spoiled and pampered of society yet they are dedicated to denouncing it out of their own boredom and their liking of the sound of their own voice. As if their constant bitching will feed one hungry child or shelter one homeless family. If you're so angry then why aren't you organizing a revolution in the hills, instead of typing on your IBM laptop sipping a Frappaccino, listening to your BSB? GET OVER IT!
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the main reason? well i was going through other BBS's, (ones i don't troll...) and i came across a few that really make me ****ing angry. they're made by kids around my age. well not really kids then, but still... and the strange thing is that these kids are all well-to-do kids, raised in middle class families, with money, bought their kids what they want, they're pampered, they're all in ivy league institutions.... yadda yadda. yet some of these kids, have no appreciation of what it takes to make the world turn, and constantly bitch moan whine and generally act like assholes, to anything they dont like, which happens to be everything.
i was most offended by some of these kids who are constantly ragging on Rudy Giuliani. why? because firstly i've always supported Rudy, because i've lived in NYC for a hell of a long time and i remember my dad getting the business end of a revolver shoved in his face, and me almost getting stabbed in the subway during the dinkins administration, and oh yeah, our house was burglerized when we had literally no money in the bank. fun ****ing fun. Rudy cleaned all taht up and i'm eternally grateful. Second, Rudy is the greatest mayor in new york history, barring from contention with fiorello laGuardia. he's had problems with the police, yes, one transit worker strike yes. but even before 9-11, he's done more for the city already, in an 8 year span, than david dinkins and ed kosh could have done in ten lifetimes. and after 9-11, for the sake of FU-CKING SOLIDARITY, we should at least be behind him. Yet these kids, who LIVE in NYC, have the audacity to criticize him, at a time like this, take his quotes (knowingly and deliberately) out of context, try to bash him, and denouce things like the time square initiative (which incidentally, removed the whole fuking red light district from middle of manhattan) HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY BITCH ABOUT GETTING PORN SHOPS OUT OF A PLACE LIKE TIME SQUARE?!?! it"s like complaining about getting the graffiti off the streets of harlem, or removing raw sewage from the grand canyon. obvoiusly good things, yet these kids try to pick faults out of them. WHY!?! i ask, WHY!?!?! like they can handle something like 9-11? if they were mayor of NYC and that happened, most likely you'd find them in their office hanging off a beam off their own intestines the next day. they have had 2 months to think about the actions of the government during the crisis, RUDY HAD 2 seconds, it was fuking real time. WHO ARE THEY TO SAY THEY KNOW BETTER?!
what's this world coming to? these kids (rightfully adults now, 18+) will disagree with everything and anything they come across, simply for the fact that it is not theirs. they are priviledged children, not born into poverty or any such thing. they are lucky enough to be born in a society which allows them to actualize far more than others. yet they sit on their asses and b!tch all day.
firstly there's far worse problems in the world than the corruption of the american media. kids in uganda are running around with their hands and feet cut off. that's worse than CNN giving bad footage.
secondly these kids patronize the very society they whine so much about. they wear name brand clothing, they go to ivy league schools, the stuff they eat, the water they drink, the air they breathe, all supplied by the powers to be. yet none of these kids are even willing to acknowledge the good things that has come from the collective will of a hundred million souls. nor are they willing to take arms and seriously fight against the tyranny and oppression they in such loud tones rant about. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT OR GO HOME.
don't get me wrong, i think there are plenty of things wrong with the government's policies. but while i criticize, i'm not all words, and i don't do it indiscriminantly. i can recognize when the government does good things, and i can acknowledge when the government tries hard to deal with a crisis, i can fully appreciate it. in fact, i hardly ever talk about my "resentment" towards the government, unless i'm talking about specific instances of injustices. why? because what i feel towards the government is not really resentment at all, i can tell both the right and the wrong of government policy, in fact, in school i'm studying the system, to learn to work with the system, to institute changes which i think are necessary to help more people. i am workign with the system to make it better, whereas they are working against the system to no end at all.
i dont' classify myself as patriotic to this government. nor will i tell someone to shut up if they are addressing a particular grievance against a particularly problematic policy, something like the DMCA or the SSSCA. i know history well enough to judge the good things from the bad. i remember in another post i wrote that "while i criticize the government, i never failed to appreciate the fact that i CAN criticize it, that i have the right to do that, and that alone makes this country worth living in." the government is far from perfect, and in its current state, i find it difficult to swear my allegiance to it, over my allegiance to humanity, but at least i'm doing something to help change it.
my understanding is that in this sick and twisted world, some people just don't know who they are, and they can only define who they are by tearing down others, not unlike bin Laden, who would have been an unknown if he didn't start blowing sh!t up. they're sad pathetic people.
so ends my bitter rant.