One Laughing at this Defeated Generation

Most of Fight Club makes me want to Choke but Palahniuk did capture a repressed theme in the pop brand of American nihilism of the 90's. The sentiment that "We have no great war... We are sons without fathers..." has made a rather disgusting impression on young people. In Jack Kerouac's one hitter, On the Road, the characters constantly talk about being put down; they even try to act sympathetic through the beat. And the "ultimate truth" of the novel is that friendship is everlasting. But Kerouac and Cassady's relationship disintegrated after the novel became popular. Some critics believe Cassady started taking on the role of Dean Morrarity; driving the Merry Prankster's bus and living a dysfunctional dream. Which ultimately led to his death. A dream Hunter S. Thompson so externalized in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, another one hitter.

Andy Warhol, idiot savant extraordinaire, made "art" accessible to the masses with his eclectic prints. As well as single-handedly watering down American fine art.

These influencers of music, pop art, and entertainment have taught our generation in all seriousness that the absurd and unreasonable are legendary and epic. And yet when we ourselves confront these enormous roadblocks we know not what to think. How many girls on Xanga of all places singularly blog about their weight? That's defeat. How many naval gazing blogs are out there? It seems somehow the message got twisted by a nasty reality. A reality that is only still attainable to the everyman through the military. The armed forces is the only way to the picket fence American Dream.

The point is: I'm fed up with your tired excuses. The items you bring up in objection. So you feel more attractive than I. Because that is the end of it for sure. These lies everyone tells each other; especially the lies of God and the lies of love; they ruin anything that may be good in the first place.

Love is where we should question, however the lack of belief we put into it is laughable if not damnable.

There are billions of people on this planet. You either have to meet them all or you have the ones that count already.

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