nous sommes désespérés [written 4.06.2009]

“…INDIFFERENCE IS THE ENEMY…”
let the record stand that we have failed, and continue to do so. and let the record show, that our failures (current and ongoing) have cost our children their future. 
I beg your meager pardon if you’ve heard this invective before. however, the most important lessons must be repeated until they are assimilated. and, thus far, America has only assimilated the worst traits possible. we are, the majority of us, indolent, selfish, ignoble and feckless. as well as a veritable profusion of other equally appalling adjectives. however, the worst adjective to describe us is that we are irredeemable. 
so, while we are all baring our teeth, like the hyenas we are, we might as well smile and welcome our ensuing ruin. because, make no mistake you absolute fuckers, it is coming. and that quicker than we think.
“…DOWN THROUGH THE WRECKAGE AND THE RUINS…”
the change that so many of us seem to be awaiting, while we twirl upon our collective thumbs, comes with a very corpulent price. (those with $ signs in their eyes, please read no further.) that price is no less than our diligence. no less than our ability to provide for ourselves. no less than our freedom to enhance our lives, on our own terms. we are dumb-wittingly mortgaging our independence for convenience. 
I ask you: what is the point of freedom, if you are so fucking feckless to utilize it?