Shaking my fist violently while making strange guttural noises in frustration at the world. Grraauugh

If there's anything that'll be the be-all, end-all of America, it's greed and laziness.

Let's see. We have Hummers because we think they're cool, despite the fact that they are excessive and devour fuel. We drive half a mile down to the nearby elementary school because we're too lazy to walk. Businesses earn tons more money because they make our food cheap by using additives and preservatives, even though it's fattening and carcinogenic. We subsequently encourage these companies to continue poisoning us because we actually buy said food, since we're too lazy to cook and it's easy to get. We watch TV instead of reading because it's too tiring and we would have to think (and who wants to think when you have a TV to tell you what to think?) and there are no pretty pictures to entertain us. We gladly spend $50 on a stupid little ab-shaking machine that doesn't work because we're too lazy to go out and exercise for free. We elect the same officials into office, even though they really don't accomplish anything and lie through their teeth and are generally faker than the French Nationalism. That is, if we even vote at all; I mean, who can bother learning about the issues, reading about each candidate, and make an informed decision? That requires something we quite frown upon here: thinking.

Thinking! How silly. Why would you want to think when so many famous people don't? I'm sure Ke$ha wouldn't be so popular if she woke up in the morning feeling like Louis Pasteur or Socrates or Ludwig van Beethoven or Henry David Thoreau. Intellectualism? Why would you want that? Just get rich quick by either selling something stupid, lying to people, or faking your way through the world. And you know what? Then you can get even richer by making an instructional video series that teaches other people how to get rich by faking their way through the world too.

We don't like smart people in our country. Kids now have a stigma against being "nerdy" and "geeky," as if thinking and trying to excel at something are bad things. Then you have the "cool kids" that teach us that debauchery is the right way in life, as is guzzling down alcohol and having multiple sexual partners. There is immeasurable arrogance in underachieving.

You see kids now that get Cs and Ds on tests who gloat about it like it's something to be proud of. If you don't believe me, just listen to the students in the halls of your local high school: "Oh, haha, hehe, I failed that test. I didn't study at all. But I did get drunk last night and hook up with a random person." Sometimes even the smart kids pretend like they don't care and failed, seemingly ashamed that they did well. Then we wonder why our test scores are so low, compared to those of other countries.

Apathy. I hate apathy, I hate apathetic people, and I will never have respect for apathetic individuals, no matter how rich they are. They are a cancer on our society, a barb in democracy's foot, a poison that just gets worse and worse. To not know should never something to be proud of. It's something to be ashamed of, just as I am ashamed now to live in a country where it is cool not to know and not to care. Our country is not being destroyed by Barack "Socialist" Obama, nor is it being destroyed by retarded republicans. It is being destroyed by stupidity, or - to be more precise - the encouragement of stupidity. I'm sure many of our country's problems would go away if every single able-minded person read just one book every month.

For those of you that think I am being "gay," you are hopeless. I don't even want people like you reading this. Go watch MTV or something.