We're Mad As Hell

We're unhappy, and unfulfilled, malnourished and ignored. We are Americans, we are the humans of this earth, and we're all feeling this pervading sense of discontent. We watch as our leaders, our corporations, our public servants act dishonorably and against human interest, and we feel weak and helpless.

We know that our neighbors feel the same outrage when a company, yet again, stands on the side of profit instead of health and welfare... and get away with it. We feel the same shame when our countries act against our wishes and lay thousands of human lives to rest. We feel the same depression when we see millions needlessly dying of starvation or illness when any one of the 1% could reach out a hand and stop it: when any one of these companies could spend a fraction of what they spend on PR on actually doing good instead of just convincing us that they always have been. We all feel the dread as we see fewer and fewer regulations to guide the people and companies in power to do what's right and not just what is profitable.

We are justifiably angry.

We feel separate and alone, and none of us know the first damn thing to do. We're killing our planet, and starving our people, poisoning our food and water and dumbing down the next generation. I try not to look at it, because our future looks bleak. It looks bleak because somewhere down the line, we stopped holding people accountable. We stopped standing up for ourselves and we began to be ruled by fear. And in doing so, we do nothing. And each day it gets worse.

It is now crazy to expect a big company to act in the favor of people. It is nuts to think that human life would ever outweigh the value of the dollar. It is bad business. Why? Is this right?? How does that make any logical sense? Companies grow and die, governments rise and fall, but in the end, the only consistent thing we have is ourselves and each other. It is what we fight for, what we live for. It is never in debate. Our lives are always the most important, but we've let ourselves believe differently. The bottom line has a dollar sign on it. That's bullshit, and at some point, we need to start acting like we are seeing this travesty, that we notice and we feel the shame when our people act against us. It's reprehensible, and it's only sane to stand against it. It's our lives, and the only one we have, and we devalue it by allowing it to loose value for others. We are letting our world die in every way.

My people are sick, but cannot get medical help. We are hungry for knowledge, but have a failing education system. Our quality of life has gone down, and it feels as though every day, there is more taken away from us. We are dependent on this structure to be as comfortable as we are, despite the fact that this same system is tearing it apart. We are being lied to, and we are expected to buy into it, and we too often, do.

When did we forget to stand up for ourselves? When did government and corporations become more important than us? We are not hurting anyone by holding these people accountable, but we are damning ourselves by continuing the pattern to let it go unchecked.

I'm mad as hell, and I don't know what to do about it. I'm tired of being mad, and I've seen enough of my people scream and yell and share their anguish about the state of things, but I feel that the screaming has stopped being beneficial. Now that we know we all agree, that we're all angry and that we can't stand for it anymore, what are we going to do about it? How do we get our voice to have power again? How do we get meaningful regulations in place? How do we set standards that value human life beyond all else?

What do we do now?