This is what I've decided. I think that the United States should switch it's name. That's right. From now on I've decided to no longer refer to my beloved (or maybe not so beloved) nation as the United states, but I've decided to refer to it as Bubble Land. What do you think? I like it. I think it has a nice little ring to it. It's like Disney Land, but let me tell you it's so much better. Oh, and not only does it have a nice little ring to it, but it's finally is a name that really speaks the truth about what we are. We are the Bubble People. United is Unified, meaning together, of one mind, and quite frankly we're not. I mean look at the elections. All those people having a different idea of what makes a country work. Does that look Unified to you? It doesn't to me. or even look at this little blog site. all these different teenagers with different ideas about what's going on in the world and how we should view it and how we effect it. That doesn't look very unified to me. But the reason I have decided to change our name to Bubble land is not because of the fact that we are not unified, becasue I understand that everyone everywhere has a different idea of what's happening. That's what makes us all individual and unique. The reason I'm changing our name is because that's what we are. We are the Bubble people, because that's how the majority of us choose how to live: in a bubble. If there's something wrong in the world we don't want to hear about it. We don't want to do anything about it. We don't want it brought into our world, our bubble. Why else are television sitcoms so much higher than the local news. We don't want to have to deal with someone else's problems. Oh and you think I'm wrong? Well, let me tell you that in my global studies class yesterday the subject of the sudan/darfur issue came up and only 3 out of 24 people know what we were talking about. (If you don't know what it is, it's basically the holocaust happening all over again in Africa.) Oh, and who else knew that no the number one killer of people in Africa is not Aids? It's malaria. You see. We just don't care about stuff like that. We rather know that Gweneth Patrol's Daughter, Apple, just decided to name her first Kitten Pickles, than actually learn something that could change us and makes us sick. Make our our hearts fill so anguished and so full of guilt for not doing anything that we actuallly get up off our butts and try to change the world. WE DON'T WANT IT IN OUR WORLD!
And it's sad. It makes me grieve, that America has become so complacent. That we don't see the reality of the world, not because we can't, but because we won't. We don't want to. We want to live in our little happy-go-lucky bubbles where nothing matters except Paris Hilton's fingernails grew another inch and Tom Cruise decided snickers are his favorite food. I think it's sad and it makes me sick. This is America: The land of the complacent and the home of the apathetic.
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