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Hannah Violet
feels stuck.
Title: Seeker of Peace
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Chinese Sign: Earth Snake
About Me:
i am a student that is in love with the world and the endless possibilities it has to offer.
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I said it, unless it agrees with your reason and your own common sense.”
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I said it, unless it agrees with your reason and your own common sense.”
I see what I see and that is that. I see wars. I see poverty. I see struggle. I see a generation too spoiled to care and too arrogant to dig deep.
Democracy is dead and a new world order is colonizing our souls. Media chokes us, coerces us, makes us believe that being more than human is being. I see women desperately seeking perfection, enslaved by their magazines' false ideals. She says too much of nothing.
I see selfishness. I see caricatures and parodies aspiring to become iconic. I see heat, I see meat. I see vice. I see posers paddling in a media pool waxing lyrical about life, believing that they know. They know nothing…
They swim in style, adrift champagne politics.
True, we live freely within a capitalist ethos of consumption. True, we all work to live. That is life in all systems.
But I will not allow the future to be choked by the present. I will not tolerate a society that is all style and no substance. I will not permit my children to live in excess.
And I will speak until I am heard.
You say there is nothing to hope for. You say we are all headed for doom. You say democracy is dead and America is the devil, as you take another swig of your Jack Daniel's and Coke.
You say banks are evil. That they feed off our vanity and greed, making us clowns in a grotesque comedy. You say the West is dead, destroyed: no morality, no life…just shopping. Tell me, could you say that to the girl who is beaten with sticks for revealing a lock of hair? She cannot say anything.
You say everyone works for money out of egotism…that we all just pretend to care. You say our way of life spells the end of humanity, and that we know nothing of what we speak. You say we are enslaved by fashion; but so is every society, even tribesmen in the Serengeti.
You say it all because you have the luxury to complain.
True, we live in a capitalist system. True, we have become disconnected from our political system and live in a hyper-consumerist culture.
But I will not allow you to bring me down from my high. I will not let you judge me. Nihilism, shmihilism. The freedom of negative expression maintains oppression. Think twice about pessimism-it keeps unwanted systems in existence.
Say something I haven't heard before.
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