"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
- Plato




Saturday, July 26, 2008

To a relative.

May I remind you that you live in the third richest county in the United States. You may work a part-time job at minimum wage, but you make more in your shift than some in foreign countries make at full-time jobs in a month.

Tell me again that your life is terrible.

Your father has an insanely well-paying job, and yet your only concern is economic crisis that do not even touch you. Your hair-brained ideas are pulled from generations of peoples whom spend their time ignoring actual news and don't vote- you follow the ideas of your friend's grandparents and great-grandparents.

So tell me again why I am wrong.

I'd like to send you on a plane out of the country to somewhere impoverished. I'd like you to stay there until you see the looks on some of those persons faces that you're blaming. No foreign person is to blame for your ignorance.

So tell me again that we're stupid and you're always right.

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