Reply #69: Artists are nice, but I'm not really thinking of that. [View All]

[Cleita]

We in America are very passive. We have been fed our bread and games. We are told that if we are not the top performers in anything we are failure. There is no reason to play games because you won't make the leagues. There is no reason to paint stuff because you won't get a show. There is no reason to do music because you won't make the labels and the award shows. Yet, we plunk our money down for games, for concerts, for designer goods, for movies and passively sit there with our tongues out as we are fed our bread and games. We don't do for ourselves actively anymore because we have been told that anything we do is worthless unless we can make the top. Is it any wonder that no one can take this country back? They are all sitting around waiting for someone to entertain them or change things or fix what is bad. The objections on this thread have somewhat proved to me that people won't go out into the streets anymore because as one poster said, they aren't hippies.

Okay, I was never a hippie but many of my friends were because they got attracted to the movement. The hippies were not afraid to do art, to write music and to challenge society and they didn't feel that it had to be superior to the professionals. The fact that they could get together and farm a piece of land, make their own clothes and a lot of what they used in daily life and sit around with guitars singing bad music and enjoying it because it was among friends, was a testament to the fact that they had dropped out of society as we had known it. It's time to drop out again. This time though we need to take society with us and mold it into something everyone can be a part of. To do this we need anthems as another poster noted to keep everyone motivated.