... to every Socialist and every Capitalist too busy arguing with each other about irrelevancies to realize that their philosophies are just as useless as each other.

... to every musician too busy whining about piracy to stop and evaluate whether their music is actually worth anything.

... to every Libertarian individualist too busy vaunting their independence and their self sufficiency to realize that they couldn't survive a day without everyone else.

... to every ordinary man and woman too busy chasing a dream to find the freedom to live one.

... to every Objectivist too busy pushing their opinion on others to realize that it's just an opinion.

... to every couple too busy trying to rekindle the selfish drunken love they once had to realize that it wasn't ever really love at all.

... to every prejudiced moron too busy scapegoating some other group of people to realize that they are just as damn stupid as everyone else.

... to every right-wing and left-wing political pundit too busy bickering about the just way to control another man's life to see that there isn't one.

... to every sad eyed, whiny, well dressed, confused, despondent, embittered, jaded, misanthropic, cynical, egocentric, flighty, apathetic, directionless, clueless, valueless bloody train wreck of a young person too busy digging for their soul in the bottom of a Starbucks cup to pull those horrid fucking white headphones out of their ears and listen to it screaming at them.

If I come across as bitter, it's only because I'm venting. I don't begrudge people their shortcomings, really; I've got my own share to deal with. I really mean to thank all of these people, for showing me how not to live. Traps are more difficult to fall into when you can see what happened to the last guy who did so.

But all of that said, sometimes I just wish everyone would wake up.

 

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