I dont have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. Its a depression. Everybodys out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickels work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and theres nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and theres no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if thats the way its supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. Theyre crazy. Its like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we dont go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I wont say anything. Just leave us alone. Well, Im not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I dont want you to protest. I dont want you to riot - I dont want you to write to your congressman because I wouldnt know what to tell you to write. I dont know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first youve got to get mad.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 06:31:32 +0000
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