Forum Post: My cultural contribution XCIX

THIS IS THE SOUND OF THE SHACKLES AROUND MY SOUL BREAKING AND FALLING TO EARTH::: SHARE AS YOU WILL:::

My brothers and sisters see clearly that we are entering into, and ushering in, a new way of being human into the world. Our class gaps have widened into gaping chasms; our social, financial, governmental, and infrastructural systems are falling into disrepair and decay. We are forced to stand by and watch as our duly elected representatives dither and debate half-hearted half-measures to remedy an economic system that is anachronistic at best, and soceitally antagonistic at worst. We have had enough.

We have watched in silence as the corrupt are spared, elevated, celebrated and integrated into the power structure of our country while the innocent are executed, jailed, chained, branded, and disenfranchised. My brothers and my sisters and I have sat tight-lipped as lawsuits against law enforcement exhausted the treasuries of the great cities of this nation during the midst of severe recession. When our employers demanded increased output, slashed jobs, depressed pay, and rode on the backs of the 99% to profitability we held our tongues; when they refused to begin rehiring former employees despite the current growth we cringed, but did not cry out. Let this by my Clarion call to my generation.

We, the Millenials; We, the 99%; We, the American people, straddle two eras simultaneously: one that is dying, and one that is being born. We are now caught between the two, the elder seeking to draw away the life force of our infant age to grasp at dominance for a few years more. We must be midwives and undertakers to a new way of being human in this world. It’s time for us to assume the responsibility bestowed on us by a capricious fate.

The power brokers of this nation do not have many years left to deal with the consequences of their decisions. They can plunder happily, knowing that the long term social damage they leave in their wake will be a disaster for others, yet unborn: Our children. We have a duty to our children to take control of the world that we bring them into; we have a responsibility to craft a society, a government, an economic system that they will be able to depend upon, have a place within, contribute to, and be enriched by. We cannot leave it to our Grandparents to furnish the governance of the Internet for the next 60 years, and we cannot accept it’s abuse and corruption by those same people for profiteering and espionage against the citizenry, the 99%. Only we and our children will pay the wages of our inaction now, while infant princes atop gilded-coffins laugh and reap the interest.

We must protect our progeny. We must begin to march to the Land of Our Children; we must seek it, we must find it, and we must build it at any cost.

:::Solidarity:::Victory:::XCIX:::