Brace Yourself

The facts are that this country is headed over a cliff. Some thoughtful ideas on the future of this country include the toxic secular society and the brainwashing techniques employed by facets of our culture in our media, education and religion.  Hurting, broken young people are the targets. The occupation in Iraq has become the biggest problem of their future and they don't even understand what happened.  The story that we went there to get our hands on Weapons of Mass Destruction doesn't float, we know now this was all truncated lies.  We remain because we made a mistake? We remain because oil companies are there setting up for the heist of the century and now there's nothing we can do to stop it.  At least in VietNam we had line in the sand at the 38th parallel.  Here we have nothing but a fiasco that will have lasting effects on future generations all over the globe. Selfishly we sit by, not really knowing what to do, if we even care.  Some of us put magnets on our car.  The small silent protest that has been occurring at Buffalo's Bidwell intersection is cute, but lacks any punch to raise any kind of real awareness. I like the veterans who go the Thursday in the Square and try to talk the kids out of joining the military and call recruiters liars.  They always get a nice, interactive group listening and talking about issues.  Other than that, there isn't much going on.  We shop, sit at our computers, complain about gas prices hoping they will magically fall and get back to our busy lives where we basically do nothing except work and pay bills.  We are programmed to shut up and take it.  If we are, imagine the next generation of nit wits coming up the ranks.  Our only hope that they have not lost hope, that somehow wave of anger among our young will develop that is no longer turned inward but outward at the culprits who stole their futures. Wouldn't it be so exciting to see mass protests, revolutionary thinking and debate on the news instead of what some celebrity is doing or who slept with who? Where are we headed?  We are so distracted by nonsense that the big issues keep growing while we are looking away at the tube.  We finally turn around and now these problems are screaming in our face, like monsters.  What are we going to do?  How are we going to change the shift in the apathy and arrogance our youth show?  They don't understand what has happened, they don't know the truth behind what is going on and aren't privy to any information about their future. They are rendered helpless.  They are pissed.  Teachers push college.  Kids ask for what?  What is the answer?  For what is right.  There is no pride left in trades, education or ownership.  That dwindling population has hiked it to the suburbs and want to dig a mote around their house.  Where are the foundations of integrity, truth and kindness? Where are these things that make us whole? Where they used to be, there is just a big hole just like where those twin towers once stood.  Now there is just a big hole. That's where our integrity as a nation once stood.  Now it is gone.