Dear Guitar-Playing, Hippie-Dancing, Smoke-Bumming Sidewalk Dweller: You’re free. I get it. You’re drifting, “maaaan”, you’re like Jack Kerouac on STEROIDS, minus the intelligence and literary talent or any other redeeming quality Jack Kerouac had. But listen the fuck up. I had the decency to give you a cigarette when you asked me. I even let your dirty, unwashed-in-decades hands touch my lighter. Yet you have the balls to go on some pathetic speech telling me I’m not free? That I’m not really living? That I should sell my possessions, stick my fucking thumb out on the TransCanada highway and start being a real person? Motherfuck you! I like my car. I like my apartment. I like having money to blow on material items. I fucking LOVE being a part of the consumerist machine. If that makes me less of a person than your sorry never-gonna-contribute-to-society-because-I’m-a-worthless-piece-of-shit ass, then I no longer understand this world. —Just Another Slave to Materialism
This article appears in Aug 25-31, 2011.
Freedom is in the head. We are all free.
I’ve hitched my world, I’ve read my Kerouac.
This kid will conform. He will participate in society. He is just fighting it right now, because it rightfully scares him.
But if he needs cigarettes, then he is part of the consumerist culture already. You could have lectured him right back.
We’ll see how “free” he’s feeling this winter when his nards get flash frozen to the ground while he’s squatting in a random ditch to take a shit after his continental breakfast of rotten fruit cup and molded croisant, waking up from his “luxurious” slumber in his bed of newspaper, styrofoam packing and piss soaked blanket in the spacious, well appointed alley located between the vet clinic and laundromat (dryer vent forced air heating included) Yeah. He’s REALLY living alright.
None of us are really free…..we live with so many laws, by-laws etc…. and are led to believe we have the power to choose when in reality alot of things are choosen for us. Or we(society) are mislead to think everything is done for the greater good. Question is for whos greater good.
You should watch the movie “Into the Wild” amazing movie.
I think what he was trying to say is the society has a hold of us pretty tight, and that it is a consumers world.
Although I wouldn’t chosse to live the way he is living I understand what he is saying
OP open your mind a bit eh
Cue the Epictetus stoicism.
Took the words out of my mouth, INFY. He’ll take your smoke, that you worked to pay for, but lecture you about your consumerism. Hypocrite hippie douchebag. If you support tobacco companies, you better not have the gall to talk to me about the evils of capitalism. Good on you for not lecturing him though, would have been a waste of your breath. Hope it didn’t put you in a bad mood.
what’s that? he’s drunk, pissing behind a dumpster, living in back of the King of Donair?
he can have that ‘freedom’.
I saw the movie you mentioned Beener and I liked it. It was a really good movie. But I don’t think dying of starvation alone in the back of a delapitated bus in the hinterland of Alaska would be a very good argument for “free” living and anti-consumerism. “Go dead guy!” I understand where you’re coming from but, like you, not the way I would choose to do it.
So lets get this straight… he thinks everyone should sell all of their belongings so they can live free like he does. Whose car is he going to hitch a ride in than? Who is going to work at a factory to manufacture his cigarettes, lighter, clothes, etc. Who is going to pave the streets that we walks on or build the shelters that he sleeps in? He should consider himself very lucky that there are enough generous people in the world that he can sustain his lazy carfree way of life.
I saw that movie too. One must acknowledge that we do need structure in our society. We need firefighters, police officers, burger flippers, butchers, bakers and mothafuckin candlestick makers. We can’t all live in the woods and eat squirrel.
you funny tommy http://scarygoround.com/blog/bbc.png
No offense but what kind of idiot shoots a moose, yet still starves to death?
Yeah, suddenly people with jobs and lives are going to start looking to some smelly ass bum for their “key to success”. That’s a life lesson we can all do without, I guess that’s why you never see the homeless guy booth on career day.
if you’re that fucking cheap, why give him one, in the first place.
Thankfully most of that drifting trash ends up 6 feet under far sooner than normal people.
Ugh!! Totally hate people like that!!Seriously! Its not the 60s and dancing like an idiot on the street, and protesting things that you don’t understand doesn’t make you a hippie!! Grow up!! Ps- You are kind to have donated a smoke OP, I know a lot of people that wouldn’t.