EDIT: American Idiot= 1. media hypnotized, resource consumer who doesn't realize the negative effects of his/her consuming has on others. 2. one who's unresolved existential problems results in killing of others by their elected officials--those elected to make moral decisions for them.
In today's world, we have nuclear weapons that could basically ruin the entire planet of humans at every moment. By their mere existence, every moment we are in danger of receiving mass death.
Or, at the very least, say bombs go off that don't destroy the entire planet, but only one country. Say an atomic bomb is dropped on England, or New York City, for example. It would be complete chaos and the end of society as we know it.
So the point I'm here to say is:
Violent war has become archaic. We humans have peaked out the violence thing. We've become so good at killing the enemy, we kill his ENTIRE WORLD!...but wait? That's OUR WORLD TOO! So basically, violence is not a reasonable solution anymore.
Right! my point/belief is:
Non-violence is the answer. As a species, and as individuals, it is time for us to actually use our ENTIRE brains to control our egos and to grow up.
Like the whole "war" in the Middle East. Just think about it:
Bush, the leader of the world's Great Power, the spearhead of man's progress from the primordial ooze.....provoking "conflict" with Arab's over oil, knowing full well that all it would take would be for some Arabs to get ahold of one of those and bomb the U.S. If they would fly planes into the Towers, why wouldn't they be willing to drop an atomic bomb?? (which, since they haven't surprises the hell out of me, and leads me to believe the U.S. must have let the planes hit the Towers). Shouldn't the Leader of our Country, be more concerned about NOT starting wars, then willfully retaliating like were in some fucking James Bond movie, when there is enough nuclear fireworks to have a REAL grand finale??? This ain't no movie, this is our WORLD!
How STUPID and SELFISH are we Americans, to be in the 21st century, to to RE-ELECT Bush, knowing damn well he's a puppet??????? How STUPID are we Americans?? Is risking it all worth the pathetic rush of getting the flaunt the "W The President" bumper sticker? As Americans, citizens of a great World Power, if not the greatest, I believe it is our responsibility as individuals to be the most progressive....yet, we re-elect Bush, some of us put 'support our troops' stickers on our cars, and worse "W" The President stickers, let mass media think for us, never question anything, assume people in the government are looking out for our best interests, habitually tune into sitcoms instead of learning about what's really going on in our world, talk to people accross the globe via emails/cell phones yet ignore our neighbors, focus on how Britney Spears is fucking up this week, go to church and try to see who's best at hiding imperfection, consume all kinds of plastic crap that is designed to break so we'll buy more to use up more oil to produce it, so more money will be put in ol' Bushie's pocket-----> in a nut shell: we are programmed to KEEP UP WITH THE FUCKING JONES' because we care more about what people we don't know, nor like, think about us more than what we think about ourselves. We're merely a herd...a herd of chicken shit posers. We love Sauron's chains. We've got a hole in our souls we fill with false promises...and the sad thing is: we KNOW it, yet do nothing abou t it.
Fuck this shit! Change!!!!
I wish I were smarter, I'd be more convincing!