By Michael Harper O'Donnell

I declare my Social Contract void. I do this on the basis that my existence is no longer enhanced by it, and that is the promise on the other end. That or I’m too much of a self-absorbed crazy person to pretend otherwise. The balance between what I could have had and what has been taken away is to extreme. Instead of providing me with greater health and understanding I have been given more health risks and brain washing. I have grown up in a society in which the risk of cancer and god knows what has been increased greatly by all the "wonders" of life so that more forums of telling me what to think and how can be multiplied. I can’t escape it. Why do I keep thinking maybe the Amish are onto something?

                We increase the bandwidth traveling to our crotch all the time while going back and forth on the idea if those signals increasing the risk of cancer. We surround ourselves with radon emitting stone, hazardous chemicals and I don't even think god knows what else. Hell even the air we breathe in the cities and towns is full of crap. I imagine sometimes God or whoever has to be sitting there think... "Don't mix those! I never even thought you would do that! Why would you do that?!" I think we are much like the romans and their zeal with lead. We create without thinking it through and provide it on a massive scale. How little we have learned from our past, and even while some scream -- wait wait let’s look at this we plow forward. We allow crap food all around us because it tastes good and now our bodies yearn only for that salty oily concoction that slowly kills us. These things all kill more every year than 9/11 and all troops following ever did but hell who cares? It makes money. Capitalism forever! Pff and you have the audacity to tell me not to smoke some plants go fuck yourself.

                Along with polluting our bodies our minds are destroyed at a very young age. We beat those who think differently through school and force them to want to have the latest craze. You ought to wear this, watch this program, and play this game. Odd the parallels with the products that are more expensive, more violent and oh require the least amount of individual thought. Great you now own a stupid (ya that’s me trying to push my idea of what is worthwhile on you) purse that cost how much? You got to be shitting me that probably could have fed someone in a starving country for a month or something noble like that. Also while I’m being insulting it looks ugly and hardly practical (unless you are looking to blind than beat to death a robber)

Assuming this is a problem, and I do, what is the solution? Well I’m going to choose to be my own man from here on out. I’m going to think for myself and research for myself. I’m not going to buy every crappy thing that comes out and I’m not going to hold my tongue any longer. Sure I’ll look like a jackass but I’ve found out I look like that anyway so I’m really not changing anything. I’m going to start writing things that probably no one will read or if they do they will probably start to think I’m a crazy person or hate me. I can’t very well claim that I have been wronged I suppose. While all this has been force fed to me ever since I was released into society I never had a gun to my head. I freely gave up my free will and independent thought to fox and the American dream… which I’m still confused as to what is? Well since no one knows and I don’t, I think I’m good without it. Also this “American way of life” doesn’t seem all that great either and I sure don’t want to kill to preserve it. I don’t want to kill at all let alone for oil or anyone’s freedom. What’s the point? We all piss on the flag every day when we give up our freedom for security. For us all I apologize to those who have died fighting for our freedom. We have disgraced them by giving in to fear and laziness.  

 I have grown to hate Disney. Perhaps they aren't the worst culprit and probably it was there before but we all have some very odd ideas about what our goals for a companion ought to be. We all seem to have this fancy notion of love and living happily ever after. With this belief everyone goes forth and finds some jackass they can change, or some girl with whom we will stop being a jerk all the sudden with. "Oh she has change me guys I'm no longer the prick I was growing up" Nah your still a prick but you've now decided your too lazy to keep being that way for the moment. "Oh I'm in love and he is so misunderstood and now he has changed, he is really a nice guy" Ha! I don't think you know the first thing about love or how a “nice” person treats those around them. I give it a year. Ah shoot turns out he is still a jackass and she still thinks she can't survive without a man in her life. Sure it’s our human nature but God or whoever gave us this whole think for ourselves and free will gift. It's just amazing how we love to give to that up. I suppose it is easier for us to be told what to think and what to do than do it for ourselves.

                People don't seem like being told what they are eating is bad for them. They don't like to know they married to young to fast and it was a mistake. Who likes to give up what defines who they are? If you spend 40 years developing into this person you aren’t than what happens to those 40 years when you say damn, I had it all wrong. Who likes to give up their creature comforts? If things are the only thing making you happy right now how can you possibly discard them or accept that really they don't make you happy and your just a another spineless drone. 

                I use to think playing angry birds and watching the newest movie made me happy, now I know better what makes me happy. It’s still angry birds…  and a few more things. I know I only really enjoy it when I am around other people that can be honest with themselves. Being around people who lie to themselves and me is now exhausting. We only include things in our life that WE enjoy and not because anyone else told us we would. Not because it was told to us in an advertisement. Technology has given us a great many things, but not all of them we should dive into just yet I think. Even all the things that I enjoy like internet, cars, and what little health is afforded me is not worth what I have to give up for them. Oh cookie dough is still badass but I’m working on it.

                Do you deny that the government and corporations in general want to control what you know and think? Do you think it’s a joke? Try turning off your television for a month, walk around and look at what is around you. Well before calling me crazy and a loon (which both are true but that’s neither here nor there) you ought to look at the research they have done into HOW to do it. That’s your USA and your friendly companies. You should look at what they decide to tell you and what they don't. Then if you still don't think they do, well maybe I'm just crazier than I think but I’ll probably go with you’re an idiot. Ignorance can be an excuse but when faced with the knowledge that someone or something is controlling you and saying you don’t care, well fuck you’re not even a person anymore and I’ll call you what I please.  I'm not all that smart, or that fast but I am honest with myself, and I can't tell myself I like the price we pay for these comforts of life. I might have been weak minded before and allowed myself to be told what to think but I won't now or ever again.