In my fantasy, I’m climbing the barricades. I’m not sure why I’m climbing the barricades. It’s been a long time since I’ve believed in anything strongly enough to do that sort of thing.
Maybe I’m climbing the barricades because I got tired of playing with my phone.
I’m waving a flag, but what flag could I possibly be waving? The flag of doing my best to pay my bills? The flag of 9 to 5 employment?
I’m surrounded on all sides by real fighters–warriors truly engaged in the battle. Unlike me, they’re not here to march down the alley in slow motion, trying hard to be Beyonce in her Lemonade video. They actually want to change things. They’re not here looking for a shiver of excitement, for a reminder that life doesn’t have to be safe and boring.
Me? I think the truth is I want to belong somewhere.
But speaking of the excitement, where is it? Where is the smoke? Where are the tear gas cannisters? I don’t see any bombs or bricks getting thrown.
For that matter, I don’t see anyone to fight. The street I’m wandering down is suddenly very empty. No creepy authorities dressed in black. I look around, feeling lost. Nobody to get angry at, to shout at. And why should there be?
It turns out, the person I’m protesting is myself.
eurobrat 
05/05/2016 at 2:59 pm
Burning? Protesting yourself? Is this some kind of bra-burning thing? I’ve been waiting decades for that to become a thing again.
“For that matter, I don’t see anyone to fight. The street I’m wandering down is suddenly very empty. No creepy authorities dressed in black. I look around, feeling lost. Nobody to get angry at, to shout at. And why should there be?”
Cue drone strike! (And with 8 years of President Hillary ahead…)
“Maybe I’m climbing the barricades because I got tired of playing with my phone.”
If more people put down these masturbatory devices intentionally designed to turn off their brains and turn on their primitive appetites (consumerism, porn & hostile dung throwing competitions), then maybe more barricades would get climbed and our society wouldn’t be getting shittier by the hour.
People are so disengaged from…hell even their own real world existence…the chances of anything good happening for society are minuscule.
05/06/2016 at 7:00 pm
Ha! It can’t be a bra-burning thing…this entire post is about my realization that I’ve turned into The Man 🙂
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 21:59:53 +0000 To: missvixiev@hotmail.com
05/07/2016 at 12:17 pm
Turning into The Man -eh? Well, all the more reason to burn your bra like they did in the 70’s. 🙂
But I’m glad you said it, so I didn’t have to. But you do realize that it’s probably not too late for you? You have an excellent chance to say “Fuck The Man!” …oh…about 10 days from now. And if you regret doing it later, you’ll still have the chance to kiss & make up with The Man in the fall. Consider it a “free trial period” with no obligations. Remember, it might just be your last chance. 🙂
But you’re right. It’s sooooo easy to wake up one day to discover you’ve become what you hate. The Man has a great way of sneaking up on you and slipping the Kool-Aid into your drink. It’s all so easy, so comfortable, so non-confrontational, so “sensible”, so “practical”…..
Wait a minute…that reminds me of something…the lyrics of ….yeah…
http://en.musicplayon.com/play?v=238579
(It’s a very slow video feed, but here’s hoping that link worked. Otherwise, another great post down the toilet! So, some “lyrical insurance” just in case.)
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/supertramp/the+logical+song_20133850.html
05/09/2016 at 8:24 pm
Well, Oregon has vote by mail, so my ballot has been sent and it’s already too late for me 😉 Being sensible and practical isn’t so bad….
05/11/2016 at 1:48 pm
(Note: I hope the appropriate retro-music link worked. I proof-read my comment and realized “Shit, that sounds exactly like that Supertramp song.”)
I forgot about the “vote-by-mail” in Oregon. I think that’s a great option, especially for snail-mail loving shut-ins like me. The only problem is that you can send it off too early and possibly miss something important. (ie a dream sent to you by your guilty subconscious.)
However, there are some incredibly naive imbeciles out there pushing for people to vote via the Internet. Clearly, these fucktards have never been on the Web-pipes, nor have they actually met “people”. They also have NO idea how incredibly easy it is to hack computers, or rig Internet votes. (See: the bridges, sports mascots, etc, named after Stephen Colbert) Could there possibly be a greater motivation to hack than the selection of governments?
Some people, even the “smart ones”, are just beyond hope. Speaking of which 😉
So, you’ve officially opted for more of the same ol’ crap, even when finally given an alternative? Gee, I’m almost as shocked as when I learned most rich people are in favour of tax cuts for the rich. You ain’t Polish. The way you surrender, you gotta be French! 🙂
Don’t get me wrong. Boring, uninspiring, stay-the-course, politics would be perfectly acceptable if things didn’t suck so bad and were going in the wrong direction. But America is a car zooming toward a brick wall at full speed. The person currently at the wheel is asking “Would you mind if I ease up on the gas a little?” The guy in the passenger seat is slapping him and screaming “Faster! Faster!” Meanwhile, the woman in the back seat is saying, “It’s my turn to drive. Relax, I won’t change a thing. Just give me the fucking wheel already!”
Unfortunately, nobody in the car is interested in hitting the brakes, or turning to the left and getting back on the road. To people trapped inside the car, all of this may seem perfectly normal, or even desirable. But to anyone outside the car, it’s sheer self-destructive insanity.
Here’s hoping America has an airbag that works and has paid its insurance. Both very sensible & practical things when you drive that crazy. Of course, the truly sensible thing would be to stop the car from hitting the wall, but that requires “too radical” a change in direction.
Feel the Bern…from the smouldering car wreck!
05/11/2016 at 7:44 pm
Mmmmm, except I still have no reason to think Bernie wouldn’t also crash the car in a spectacular (just a different) way. It would have been a true surrender for me to vote for a guy I dislike and distrust just because everyone around me tells me so 🙂 Remember, I may seem French, but I’m Polish enough to have a healthy suspicion of anyone promising me a “revolution”…
05/12/2016 at 3:20 pm
Ha-ha! Luckily for Poland, Solidarity wasn’t counting on your support. Otherwise, Putin would be your President and you’d be living in constant fear of saying something that would get you a “polonium sandwich”. (Yes, I know….but don’t step on the joke.) Good thing there were ill tempered Germans who felt like a “revolution” and dragged all those East Side pussies along with them. Germany has been carrying that damn continent on its back for forever & without so much as a “Thank You” card in return!
I guess it’s possible Bernie might crash the car too. Probably by running over the hoards of drooling Republican zombies who are blocking the road and, in the process, clogging up the engine with the bones & internal organs of the likes of Ted Cruz. (The more I imagine it, the more appealing it sounds.) But at least it’s a softer, more survivable, (more entertaining) collision than the “acceptable” alternatives. Oh…and if you avoid getting bitten by the surviving zombies & make it to a hospital, they’ll be Medicare For All!!! Just like what Canuckistan has had since the mid-60’s. So if the zombies don’t kill you, neither will the bill.
However, on it’s current path, America is going to hit that wall so hard, it will become as 2 dimensional as a Realty TV show….which given the current political circumstances…isn’t nearly as funny a joke as it used to be…which only shows you how close to hitting the wall the car is.
I got more to say (RE: Hillary’s coronation and your “slightly too eager” embrace of it….although clearly your subconscious is in revolt.)….Mais j’économise pour quand votre humeur s’améliore et le sujet se lève à nouveau.
Mais…Clinton et Trump….Câlisse de Tabarnak!
(En socialiste Canada, nous ne perdez pas tout notre argent sur la guerre éternelle. Nous avons un système d’éducation publique qui est abordable pour tout le monde. C’est pourquoi tous les Canadiens parlent Français. (et vivent dans un igloo). C’est pourquoi je peux parler à vous dans votre langue maternelle… le langage des singes de l’abandon )
05/15/2016 at 11:23 am
Ha! Well, you’ve got a good point there. My parents were involved in Solidarity. They risked a lot by standing up to the authorities, and I’ve often suspected that if I were in their place, I would not have had the spine to do the same. Although to be fair, my parents don’t like Bernie much either, for their own reasons.
Thank you for the bilingual ending of your post–that was very amusing.
05/09/2016 at 11:59 am
Check your SPAM bin, I think I posted a comment that broke the link-limit.