You are a slave.

[Vladimir Estragon]

Self taught and imposed limitations confine mankind in cattle pens with no fences. Phantom prisons you build yourselves with delicately chosen dogma and mantra. You complain about the unrealistic expectations thrown upon you, yet the media you choose to consume feeds you this false ideal. You effectively pay to hate yourselves.

You repeatedly elect leaders addicted to their tests of power. They lost sight of the original motivation for their quests a long time ago. You allow lobbyist groups to manufacture law instead of exercising your will to govern yourselves. The vote has lost power to focus groups and test market results.

"The Greatest Generation" eats our income on promises that they know they won't ever live to fulfill. You know they are liars; they created this environment for us, yet you have never spoken up for yourself. You accept the status quo and move on, it's always been this way.

You idly sit back and allow sensitivity boards to wash all offensive language and reference from our history books - resulting in kids who feel from the very beginning that they fucked the whole thing up. All because you know you cannot justify your previous behavior.

A blind, ignorant generation comes behind me like dull shark's teeth. Frustrated youth resort to gunplay instead of fisticuffs to establish Alpha. Intellectual elite, safe in their academic cage, throw barbed wit at those who would try their best; rabid monkeys flinging feces.

Racial prejudice is spawned by minority phobia. Drug subculture replaces community, as no one really relates to their neighbors anymore. Individualism is only fostered if it can be used as a marketing tool against those who seek identity.

The cult of conformity has made you weak and afraid. Those who stand out are consumed by those around them, an attempt to absorb them into the collective. Those who manage to survive without losing themselves become icons to be revered and copied. Until everyone is just like them, uniform. At which point you brand them a sellout - ostracizing them for their sameness to what you had to imitate.

This cycle ensures social and cultural leaders will be killed like an Aztec king at the end of his reign. Those who employ the system do not want a representative of the people. The system wants an example of someone it can tell the people they need to be. You allow them to do this because you don't like who the fuck you are and are to lazy to become the vision that is in your head.

We have moved past the time for polite indifference. You, not some shapeless/faceless oppressive entity, are actively responsible for this environment. Those of you who are complacent because the bread and circuses have sated you are worthless. You exchanged the power of your voice for the soma-like sensation of apathetic gluttony.

When will you realize that all the pills you "need" to get your head right, all the distractions you "need" in order to deal, don't address the problem -  that you are a slave.

[Jasper]

tl; only skimmed, then re-skimmed

I agreed with what I read though.  The writing style isn't my cup of tea, but the message is spot on.

[barumunk]

tis very bleak.
and sadly true for most 1st world citizens.

[Lüftwaffle]

The cult of conformity has made you weak and afraid... You allow them to do this because you don't like who the fuck you are and are to lazy to become the vision that is in your head...

We have moved past the time for polite indifference.

... you are a slave.

So what exactly do you propose I/we do about it ?

Whining is always a good place to start I suppose.

WAIT, I'VE JUST HAD A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA !

Lets raise a peoples army and seize control of the state. That'll show teh fuckers.

[barumunk]

The cult of conformity has made you weak and afraid... You allow them to do this because you don't like who the fuck you are and are to lazy to become the vision that is in your head...

We have moved past the time for polite indifference.

... you are a slave.

So what exactly do you propose I/we do about it ?

Whining is always a good place to start I suppose.

WAIT, I'VE JUST HAD A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA !

Lets raise a peoples army and seize control of the state. That'll show teh fuckers.

I second-and-a-half that motion!

[Jasper]

Enjoy ur Guantanamos.

[B_M_W]

I just realized that I don't lurk enough, cause I only recognize 1/4 people who posted in this thread.

[Coyote]

make that 1/5.

[Jasper]

Nah, they're pretty much all new.

[East Coast Hustle]

for the whole thing, especially this part:

You effectively pay to hate yourselves.

[Mourning Star]

Holy shit noob.  Not too shabby.  Keep it up!

[Lüftwaffle]

n00b = New, fresh, exciting, shiny, not bogged down by familiarity, rather than readingyourtiredoldPOSTUNIVERSITYorwhateverthefucktheequivalentisinAMERICAversionofallegedDiscordianismis.

OR

Forum member with 157.000andzomg23 posts = ESTABLISHED.

[B_M_W]

n00b = New, fresh, exciting, shiny, not bogged down by familiarity, rather than readingyourtiredoldPOSTUNIVERSITYorwhateverthefucktheequivalentisinAMERICAversionofallegedDiscordianismis.

OR

Forum member with 157.000andzomg23 posts = ESTABLISHED.

O.o

[hooplala]

n00b = New, fresh, exciting, shiny, not bogged down by familiarity, rather than readingyourtiredoldPOSTUNIVERSITYorwhateverthefucktheequivalentisinAMERICAversionofallegedDiscordianismis.

OR

Forum member with 157.000andzomg23 posts = ESTABLISHED.

[Requia ☣]

The OP is a bit angry, and brings up a number of points, that while perfectly valid, are politicized, and tend to cause mental blocks to go up.

Whole thing seems to bring up a sense of 'well yes, but not me'.

Edit: Come to think, that's one of the better qualities of the BIP stuff, a definitive message of 'yes, you too'.