Flights of Fancy

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What they did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1995, actually outnumbers the Baby Boomers. They knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world. They tried to keep you sated on vapid television shows and vapid music. They cut off your education and fed you brain candy. They took away your music and gave you Top Ten pop stations. They cut off your art and replaced it with endless reality shows for you to plug into, hoping you would sit quietly by as they ran the world. We as a society are only as strong as our weakest link. Give ‘em hell, kids.  Hmm.  I have problems with vague alarmist rhetoric.  It sounds so catchy, so edgy, but then we have to ask who “they” actually are, and we realize that “they” are us.  We’ve shaped (and are shaping) this culture that we love to criticize.  ”They” give us reality TV?  It’s because we watch it.  ”They” give us crappy pop music?  It’s because we listen to it.  If this generation is apathetic, misguided, etc, it can’t be blamed only on this amorphous “they.”  

What they did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1995, actually outnumbers the Baby Boomers. They knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world. They tried to keep you sated on vapid television shows and vapid music. They cut off your education and fed you brain candy. They took away your music and gave you Top Ten pop stations. They cut off your art and replaced it with endless reality shows for you to plug into, hoping you would sit quietly by as they ran the world. We as a society are only as strong as our weakest link. Give ‘em hell, kids. 

Hmm.  I have problems with vague alarmist rhetoric.  It sounds so catchy, so edgy, but then we have to ask who “they” actually are, and we realize that “they” are us.  We’ve shaped (and are shaping) this culture that we love to criticize.  ”They” give us reality TV?  It’s because we watch it.  ”They” give us crappy pop music?  It’s because we listen to it.  If this generation is apathetic, misguided, etc, it can’t be blamed only on this amorphous “they.”  

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the-shade-of-sonic-lipstick:

You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they’re as dull as a brick? Then there’s other people, when you meet them you think, ”Not bad. They’re okay.” And then you get to know them and their face just sort of becomes them. Like their personality’s written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful.

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