Big Wide World

when did we become so complacent and trusting that we just started to willingly give our rights away?

what's going on with society today? noone is standing up for anything, excusing it with defences like "that's just how things are" or "well, its just...". the two extremes of that that i've heard recently are banning clotheslines and satellite dishes b/c they are "ugly". ok, satellite dishes i don't really care about beyong the rights thing, but clotheslines, well, i would hope that we weren't a society in which we would pick esthetics over the environment, but i guess we do. the point here is that we are just sitting back and letting stupid people run our government, and we are letting extremely stupid people sit on boards and committees etc. you should have more criteria in holding a position of even the most remote power beyond the fact that you just want to.

when did suburbia values start to dictate what i want to do in my backyard? when did people become so shallow and empty? really? you're going to ban something environmentally friendly and healthy and economic, to "its not pretty"? and i know that you're doing it b/c the laws, the government, etc, let you do it. you justify it by saying that if there was something wrong with what you were doing then you would be legally barred from doing it. not true. the government wants to keep you busy with this senselessness and arbitrary uselessness b/c then you won't notice or have time when they are passing actual laws that will affect you.

if i sound bitter, its b/c you're not bitter enough.