Those of you who have been following my blog it will come as a surprise reading this, as I have rarely spoken about social issues which were not directed to specific matters such as LGBT rights, psychological disorders and male sexuality.

It’s been a long time since I spoke about social issues which encompass all of us, the entire society as a whole, by exposing to the least my personal disdain and to the most my rage towards our so called reality and society. There comes a time when a person must express his own rage regarding what the aforementioned have become, pure and utter obsolete remnants of a decaying past perpetuated into the present and pushed forward as the golden ideals of what the future should and will be like for all of us. Let us start evaluating the present, our everyday lives, and social, economical, psychological as well as cultural issues at hand.

Our everyday lives have become a constant reminder of what we’re striving for, which is survival. It was never meant to be a matter of living in order to work, but the opposite. If we strive only to work in order to survive what part of our lives is any longer about living life? If we’re underpaid, working extended hours and earning fewer wages while bills pile up and things get more expensive so we work harder in order to make it through and make ends meet, what are we living for? A brighter future, and if so for whom? A better tomorrow, and if so what about today? We’ve been indoctrinated into believing that the only way for us to have a better tomorrow is to go to college, earn a degree and soon all doors will be opened. When did it become ok to collect debt in order to further our education? When did we become as silly as to believe that by earning that degree we automatically have better chances than most to have a career? What you most hear today is those same young people who after finishing college return home, as they can’t afford to live on their own and it’s becoming increasingly harder to find an entry position with any company, because the system in place asks that besides you bachelors degree you must have working experience in the same field? Isn’t it an oxymoron to ask someone who just finished college to also have 1 to 2 years entry level experience, and where would have such individual acquired it while s/he was pushing all nighters to study for mid-term exams and perhaps working at your local 7 Eleven or CVS or Walgreens? What has our education become when you have shows such as “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?” and people at home watching it go; I know that. Of course you should know that you stupid ass bitch, you’re 30 years old. Continue reading →