responsibility

Yo,

Ambition is the fire behind revolution and isolation. 

Since 2013, I’ve (mostly) lived in Illinois away from family and friends in search of a better life. As a consequence of unclear vision, I’ve pursued short-sighted, vain objectives. Isolation bolstered my depression and constricted my empathy while exposing me to hyper-individualism’s capitalistic claws. The fearful ego builds walls of dollar bills and credit to repulse financial instability as fulfillment stands on the outside looking in. 

When focused, anger is a useful motivator. Discontentment with bunny-eared pockets encouraged me to seek fulfillment, but the problem was my relationship with money not the lack thereof. Instead, I’ve turned attention to the great numbing of adulthood: disregarding aggregate effects of employment in desperation for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 

Today is American Independence Day–a symbol for the “God given right” to colonize, conquer, and enslave with nominal consequence. To me, this is no holy day. In adolescence, I got into spats with history teachers over the validity of our books and lessons–the notion of requiring 5 primary sources for my paper, while accepting our curriculum’s book as a bible of facts, was a difficult tension for me to accept. 

After high school I continued to uncover our nation’s history and was appalled to discover more mistruths than previously imaginable. Now, I don’t understand how someone can know and understand our history and remain unmoveably patriotic. Perhaps this is the curse of knowledge. 

The best way to grasp where we’re going is to understand the past as objectively as possible. Teachers are for children and adults. Starting with the next generation is irresponsible. Start now.

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KTD,

Apollo

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