Let's Talk Trash

Many people drown in the wilderness of poverty having the weight of their dreams pull them down until they hit the-rock-bottom of hopelessness. If there is such a thing as survival, it is individualistic. People do not "survive" as a race or gender or class, but as individual soldiers of an incessant war. The "right kind" of race, gender and class certainly does make survival a lot easier, but not always. Many of these soldiers walk around with a lot of pain in their memory; and since memory is history, the nightmare of it is always at bay and hovering over the present. The social aspect of insanity, for there is a social and psychological side to each individual, is the result of the pressure to stay in line with the other surviving soldiers and the inability to keep up. Thieves, prostitutes, pedophiles, spousal abusers, alcoholics, drug addicts, obese patients et cetera, all suffer from social insanity because the main organs of society have failed them, deliberately or not. The war on terror has been home grown as it started with slave revolts, race riots, civil wars, bra burnings and hunger strikes. Social insanity was there from the start, manifested in the attempts to overthrow/eliminate oppression in its varied colours. People have to live with the cards that they are dealt; some have the losing hand and others the winning. There are definite winners and losers regardless of what capitalism says. There will only be one Oprah Winfrey and one Bill Gates. Parents tell their children the same lie that capitalism tells them: that they can be anything they want. Even though they know it's a sham, parents tell their children because they desperately want to believe it themselves. The truth is, it's a toss what they will be; whether they will weather the storm of life like a stone or dissolve like substance in solvent depends on that toss...