Complacency

"There'll come a time when you just want to be left alone. Where you'll say, 'I've fought the good fight, I've chipped away at the wall, and now I just wanna sit on the porch and sip my manhattan."

Fuck that. Stick your well aged, refined complacency and your manhattan of the same description right up your ass.

How can you sit there and just let the world happen? This is my father I'm discussing, and it's not that he's really become apathetic, he votes like I do, and cares about issues, and feels for them but, as he puts it, "I'm not poor, I'm not sick, I don't have kids in school anymore, so basically, all the issues that once were of real significance to me are philosophical now." SO FUCKING WHAT?

He tells me, as he has a thousand times, that my passion to change things, that my refusal to accept the world around me and all its wrongdoings and irrationality is cause I'm young. There's always this twinge when someone in their later years says that, like it's somehow a bad thing. Like they're sick and tired of being asked to pitch in. I suppose maybe they have a right to be, but Christ, you're really going to make my passion for something out to be an inconvenience?

What is wrong with people, that those in office, those in control of our lives are the same age as the people telling me I need to stop bothering them and leave them alone. You morons, can't you see that 50 year old presidents don't care about the concerns of 22 year olds because 1) they apparently don't vote enough and 2) they clearly don't have their heads about them yet and 3) don't have the money to have their opinions matter.

And then somehow, by the time you're that age, and have enough money and security to be listened to, you are tired of being asked to make social change, and only vote on what concerns you directly. Like, I'm sick of paying taxes, I've paid taxes all my life. I'm not in school, I don't care what they cut. FUCK YOU.
I'm sick of complacency. I'm sick of a system that puts the responsibility for social change on the young, who the elderly in control have no interest in listening to or don't agree with, and burdening them with that weight until they're so sick of it that by the time they're at the age they could do something all the want is to sit on the back porch and sip manhattans. It's complete bullshit.

FUCK!@!!!! I hate that people have been so long entrenched in this system of doing things that they actually think it's appropriate. "Listen kid, you need time to get the feel of things, you need more experience, you need to be tempered. The reason society waits until you're a certain age to really listen to you is that you need time for the irrationality of youth to wear off and the serenity of age to set in." What the fuck is that? You're actually validating this? We need you to wait until you've basically stopped caring before we let you have a say in decisions that could actually change things. Until you're tired of life and the only thing you're afraid of is death, you're just going to have to sit here and watch the world disappoint you. Like Calvin's dad says, "It builds character."

Fuck that. Oh my God. I am so irate. I hate complacency.