after awhile, you figure out why nothing ever changes
$Zero
for the last several years i've been having glimspes of these reasons.
but whenever i get those outrageously depressed feelings that a much
better life is just not possible, i can usually shake them off with a
laugh, because i know it's not really true.
OF COURSE we can have a better life.
duh.
individually, anyway.
like rats in a rat race, we can get better seats than the next rat.
but the cynics have made it totally impossible for any slight optimism
beyond that.
they've really worked it out to perfection.
...
i was watching the Obama speech earlier today on C-Span.
he kept saying that he was the candidate for change.
the one we could believe in.
he kept saying it and saying it.
but that's all he said.
he never proposed a single substantive change.
not one.
he went on for at least twenty minutes without saying a single fucking
thing.
all of his words could have been said by anybody and you'd never know
the difference.
if there were a quiz at the end, and the only question was:
name one change Obama stands for:
we'd all get a big fat zero.
or a perfect score.
anyway, the audience clapped and cheered in all the right places.
...
after awhile, you figure out why nothing ever changes.
i mean, i've gone on here for several lines without proposing a single
substantive change.
and i'm a creative genius, FFS.
oh well.
[place cheer-line here]
-$Zero...
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