dumb_genius dafremen An open letter to some dumb genius with a working class family: Hey there. Congratulations! I heard that you finally got that career going. Decent money. Finally a bit of respectability for all of the work you've been putting into this school-work-life thing. You really do deserve the success you get. You really did work hard. I just wanted to ask you if you realize exactly the path you've chosen? The rich are buying up your own people's potential to get out from under our skills and abilities. Will your family and friends ever get out from under the rich inheritors that did nothing for their wealth? Not if we keep sending our most promising children off to serve them. Not if the rich keep using that money to buy our smartest and our strongest points of motivation. You can't get out of a cage without the brains and the will to do so. Sometimes you can;t get out at all. But if there was ever a hope for your own people, it was YOU. And the rich man did what he does to our pretty girls. The rich man did what he does to all but our most honest people. He printed up some pieces of paper, flashed them at us and let us prove how easily our most precious human treasures were bought for what to him are small pleasures. To him we are an amusing anecdote about Native Americans trading Manhattan for blankets and beads. That's how we look when we give up the treasure of our greatest minds to people who do nothing but give us a little taste of the ENDLESS security they've tricked us into giving them.(Remember the nerds?[scientists and researchers for the rich] and the debate team kids?[lawyers for the rich]) What about our strongest most motivated people (the jocks?[cops, soldiers, salespeople, entrepreneurs working for the rich]) So again, I congratulate you on reaching your goals. It wasn't easy and you've earned a break. The question is, whose stable are you going to take that break in? Your own? Or some rich kid whose great-great-great granddaddy did something for society...once? There's a reason our people are being made fools of: Our children of greatest potential are more interested in being "successful" (by a rich man's standards) than liberating the people who birthed, housed fed and raised them so we can ALL get out from under these parasites. Life is constantly handing us new goals in order to keep us from becoming stagnant. I know. I was a high school drop out who became an engineer for sheer spite..to prove I could. One day I realized how empty my motivations were, because I saw how pointless my striving had become once I was plugged into the profit machine of the wealthy. No point shooting at a duck that isn't there anymore. That's how careers and goals are too. My goal was happiness, not money and when it was apparent I wasn't going to find it in one direction, it was time to chose another. That's life. Again, congratulations on your new career. I DO hope it works out for you and that you are happy. There are a lot of good people who could sure use your talents in their corner. Probably for a lot less money. But I'll be damned if the peace-of-mind rewards aren't priceless. Ain't seen 'em on E-bay yet. 170423 ... Nirvanic Blind Celebrated my GED on my 16th birthday, thanks for the congratulations! Graduated before my peers. Some kind of a genius you can say. Always was ahead of the curve... While America X had my head on a curb. And I always believed our children could be anything that they wanted to be, given the right opportunities. And I guess that's where the problem lied! Smooches... Xoxo 170423 what's it to you? who go blather from