What I Hate About America

NO ONE CAN SACRIFICE

Everybody's for change, just as long as it doesn't negatively impact them. They can't lose their job, they can't make less money, you've got to leave that to the march of capitalism, and then these same citizens cry to the government to protect them. Ugh.

Unless we're all willing to work together on solutions that benefit us all, we're screwed. How come in families we know compromise is king, but when it comes to politics, it's taboo.

MONEY IS KING

If someone is rich, they're admirable. Making money is the highest form of personal achievement, unless you're poor, then you hate those with the cash.

Which way do you want to have it? Whatever you've got, that rules?

But the truth is money has ruined art. It doesn't matter how good or bad something is, it's all about how much money it makes. No, let me restate that, if it makes a ton of money, it's good!

MISINFORMATION

We're living in the information age people! Don't trust the hearsay of your friends when all you have to do is Google to get the information.

And this is where it becomes complicated, the rich and powerful are all about information and truth. Sure, they try to bend it, but they know it and understand it. Which is why anybody with a brain wants to hang with the rich and powerful, they're the only ones who know what's going on!

CONFORMITY

Being a member of the group is paramount to the millennial. You don't want to stick out, if you're a social pariah you can't participate on social media!

In the sixties, it was all about letting your freak flag fly. Now it's about being just like everybody else.

Even in art. The millennials don't want to do hard time honing their craft and converting skeptics one by one, they just want to imitate those who are successful, which is why so much art is me-too!

Yup, watch my YouTube cover, because I haven't got a single original thing to say in my music.

THE FICTION THAT THE YOUNG RULE THE WORLD

Check the age of the people running Apple, or Amazon. And even the meisters at Google are now middle-aged. And kids aren't always on to the new trend, especially if it's about more than mugging. Oldsters embraced Twitter first.

PEOPLE WHO ONLY READ ONE NEWS SOURCE

It builds bias. Because most outlets have a viewpoint. Yours can only be informed if you get information from multiple sources.

GOVERNMENT'S REFUSAL TO INVEST IN AMERICA

Infrastructure is flagging, we could have put America to work repairing roads and bridges and sewers when interest rates were negligible and no one had a job. Instead, we're gonna wait until the economy revives and we have to pay more for money and workers. This is a country? Why is it no one wants to believe we're gonna get to the future?

MISPERCEPTION

Despite data being rampant, publicity rules. With so much information at our fingertips he who yells loudest usually convinces America he matters, even though in truth he might not, no one may be buying his product.

SKINNINESS

Sure, we have an obesity problem in America, but how about those oldsters shrinking by the minute? Especially women, who seem to believe if they don't eat they're better than the rest of us, even though they lack brainpower and the ability to move. Despite living in a foodie culture, the older and richer you are, the more food is taboo.

THE HORSE RACE

I had to hear about the 2016 election from the moment Obama was elected in 2012. It's like our whole news media has been overrun by the sports page, who's winning, who's up, who's down. It's like debating how good the Yankees or the Packers will be three seasons from now, how much time do you want to waste on that?

PHONINESS

Kim Kardashian lies about having plastic surgery and her only goal is to extract dollars from our wallets. American commerce is too often built on lies. If you buy this it will make you beautiful and successful. From religion to cosmetics, everybody wants your money under the pretense that giving it to them will somehow make you better. But if you want to get better, read a book.

ARTISTS HAVE NO BACKBONE

Show up in Ferguson, write a song about it, take a stand. But you're afraid to, afraid it's going to turn off some theoretical segment of the public. When did artists become such wimps?

ENTITLEMENT

I'm all about entitlement programs, a safety net for Americans...health, homes and welfare. But don't confuse this with the right to be a success. Just because you made it, that does not mean people have to buy it. Just because you put it on Spotify, that does not mean people have to stream it.

PRUDISHNESS

Everybody wants to do it, but you can't talk about it, unless you're in private with your friends or significant other. Sex has to be fiction, the same way truth has to be in cartoons. Because people just can't handle naked bodies and desire.

THE CLICK ECONOMY

It's like we're all being tricked every day, and the profitable websites which are responsible for this cannot be criticized.

CORPORATIONS AS PEOPLE

People die. People have a social conscience. People don't make every decision based on money (although with the veneration of companies, people have moved further in this direction.) Why is the number one goal of artists to get money from corporations? If they really think the money is free, they've never heard of the chilling effect, and they know nothing about economics...it's hard to get money from companies, they want something in return, and they always get it.


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