So I do a lot of my blogging at work.
My job consists of talking to people with just a bit too much money and a bit too much time. Two things I never seem to have enough of. It is always odd when you work for a company that you could never afford to actually use. I do customer service for the Kindle, which if you haven't heard is this super nifty device that holds thousands of books and can connect to the internet from over 100 countries.
I really think people just like to have things. I think people just want something to watch, something to unwrap and figure out, and show to people. I don't think they care if they actually need it or really even pay attention to what its for a lot of the time. I have people call me all day long that have found the time to have an emotion about this simple electronic device. I actually had a woman crying at work because she couldn't download a book properly. I was hoping that her sniveling was the cause of a long day, or maybe several long days and this was just the breaking point. I fear though that she simply had nothing else to feel bad about at the moment. I wanted to tell her to hang up the phone and call a therapist. If this is causing you to break down on the phone with a stranger then you need a break. Go get a cappuccino and a cookie or something.
I don't mean to sound insensitive or anything, but I just have a thousand other things to be upset about. Life itself is something to be upset about. I feel like people don't feel life anymore. They feel through the things they have.
I think the powers that be have gotten smarter. Before it was obvious that the poor were being muted. There are liqour stores on every corner in the ghetto.. we'll keep you drunk and dumb and you'll never matter because you'll never care to matter. But now they have X-boxes and the IPhone and 114.00 jeans that for some reason are better than 20.00 jeans. They've muted us. They've made us believe that these are the things that matter. These are the things that we should crave and need and set goals for. I can't even escape it myself. Obsessing over the color of a stroller or the fact that I need my kitchen accessories to match. It is insane. The fact that there are more people online shopping than voting is something to definitely be worrying about. There is a war going on. An actual war people. It's been going on for oh... ten years. Ten. Do you understand how insane that it is that our country has been at war with several other countries for a decade and our lives have not changed. We are still sitting around apathetic, and sick with American consumer mentality. I don't mean to go all activist on you but seriously.. where are the activists? In France they are setting cars on fire because of Pension Reform. Do you even know what pension reform is? We don't even teach Civics in school anymore. Do you understand that our government doesn't think its important to teach its people about their.. government. Is that not odd?
The government should fear its people. they don't even know we exist. We sit and eat and watch youtube. What is there to worry about? We are all ignorant. We don't understand our government and we don't care to because ultimately they are not bothering us enough to do anything about it. Especially being a poor person, it isn't like they can take anything from me.. I don't have anything to take. So I feel for the apathetic youths of the world. Why fight when you can just live under the radar?
If you have an answer let me know.
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