In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Been forever since I've posted on this. In large part, this is due to the over-saturation of the blogosphere--there's so much white noise in the last four years. It has made an individual blog a completely pointless project. But it's this idea of each internet user believing themselves "special," that leads into a ruminating thought. Go ahead and point out the hypocracy of my posting this on my own blog, but man, are we a self-important bunch.

Our grandparents were suffering through the Great Depression, through hardships of multiple magnitudes greater than ours today. They were literally standing in lines at soup kitchens when they decided to head to enlistment offices and aircraft factories.

Each time I hear someone parroting something about schools or entitlements vs "endless wars," as some zero-sum gain, I can't help but think about how far removed spoiled Americans have become after two generations. Seventy years ago, Americans decided to focus on nothing but destroying evil worldwide, and thus pulled themselves up. Americans today watch Jersey Shore, while complaining about their lack of entitlements. Facebook proselytizing complete :)