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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
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12:52p - It was a good ride, George...
...but I'm afraid we must take issue with some of your parting words:
“I do feel that when you’re born into the world, you’re given a ticket to the freak show, and when you’re born in the United States, you’re given a front-row seat.”
“…at some point, I drifted away from feeling any allegiance…I don’t identify with city, state, government, religion, association, country, organization or species, even.”
Oh but George, you are so painfully American still.
It was a nice try, bub, and certainly you have good cause to want to disengage from this cruel, crumbling world (“Human beings were given a lot of great gifts…but we squandered it on goods and superstition. We gave ourselves over to the high priests and traders, and they are the ones we allow to control us.”). But you gotta know from a third-world native: You were born a white boy from the US of A and you died a white boy from the US of A. It never fails to amaze me, this American conceit.
Maybe you can finally isolate yourself, wherever you are. Maybe you’re not so white over there anymore.
current music: Man loves his money - Angie Stone (comment on this)
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