RAVEHIZZAWHATWHAT!!!!!!!
At moments in life there is a calling, a calling to participate in greatness. On a Saturday morning, alone in my pajamas i.e. my boxers, a brown friend made that call. He told me that we transport ourselves to a rave set on the illustrious shores of the Han. At this moment I knew my night would scream of neon lights, haziness, and loads of awkward dancing. All of this came true. But through my night of drunkenness I also learned much. I learned you don’t miss Jager with tequila. I also learned you don’t mix Jager with coke. In fact, you don’t drink Jager. I also learned that promiscuity can be endearing, sexy, and downwright awesome. I also learned that my friend, Risschie, has more game than I could ever hope to have. Through the night I danced a lot, I drank a lot, and I kissed my girlfriend a lot. It was fun. It was good. But, when I awoke the next morning, I also felt a somberness. The onset of my somberness may have been caused by the fact that I lost my phone and my girlfriend’s bowel movements from the previous night. But this somberness came from another place.
In a discussion with my brown skinned friend I think I found where some of this somberness came from. As an American I have always felt that our country was great. In my opinion this greatness stems from our revolution. Our revolution was not the bloodiest, nor the most radical. It did not rouse the masses and it did not change western history, as many of our teachers’ lead us to believe. It did, on the one hand,establish an empire that committed many atrocities as it conquered the land that begins in the Atlantic and ends in the deep blue Pacific. As Americans we have to answer for these atrocities, and I believe that, in some ways, we are, so I willl not discuss them further. Instead, I would like to go back to another thing the American Revolution established, the Constitution. The Constitution is a wonderous document, a great document, and it is a document that instills great pride in me and my fellow American citizens. This leads me to my final point of this blog. As a person that believes in the greatness of America I felt this greatness slip away when we elected George Bush for second term and I felt this greatness slide further away when the American people gave up on own revolutionary core as we failed to demand impeachment. After this moment I believed that we were no longer great, that we were, in fact, mediocre. A pile of shit awaiting to be shoveled up by the Chinese.
With the election of Barack Obama my belief in our mediocrity has subsided. I now feel that we our a nation that is on the right track. But we have some hurdles to overcome. These hurdles began and end with the environment. It is my personal belief that the next revolution is coming. It is a green revolution and as Americans we have a decision to make: will we be on the sidelines or will we step up to the plate and tackle the problems that affect our beatiful land. I don’t know, but reflecting on this I must say that for the first time I have hope that we will achieve greatness, that will be step to the plate like the big bambino and hit one out of the park.
I know this post started out ironic, but I want to end it on a sincere not. I hope all of you are well. And I hope that your enjoying the day. Tomorrow is going to be a good one and I hope we can all find some way to enjoy it.
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