Saturday, April 3, 2010

It just got real son

It's hard being unselfish when you're American. Between the snuggies and dollar hamburgers we're pretty much fucked fitness wise. There's actually a lady in New Jersey who weighs six hundred pounds. And she said she was unsatisfied with her body, not because she thought she was gonna tip Jersey over, but because she thought she wasn't heavy enough. This wacky lady has a webcam set up where people pay to view her flab. She's even making a bank roll off people paying to view her.

We have the obesity epidemic, a giant divide that increases between the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. We are in two wars that no one really cares about, the president wins a nobel peace prize and then sends more troops. And meanwhile people are more concerned with who Tiger Woods stuck his dick into this week.

Then again it's better to be unaware at times. It wrecks your mind if you consider how much in shambles the system is. Can anything be done to fix it? Does it have to be replaced? Violently? Passively? Peacefully? Is there even a right answer?

Perhaps if we replaced fear and hatred with compassion and understanding. Instead of punishing people we rehabilitate, instead of condemning we try empathy.

This existence does not have to be hopelessly negative wherein we cause pain and suffering to others and ourselves. There is hope for change, but it starts within you.

So many questions and there might not even be an answer.