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the wayfarer whispers, stories of ancient bones, lost beneath rising skyscrapers and crumbling flats.

the watcher wandered, but now they're gone, lost to the breeze, and the people who came before.

the screen glitches, showing what is yet to come, as it swallows the soul of the viewer,

and the speaker listens, hearing things long since forgotten, and losing their mind as they watch,

the mindset shifts, the deal is done, and they don't come out here anymore.

for while you wait, the television stands up and walks away, for the news shall not continue to play.

I want to take this moment adress this and how I feel it's an issue of misplaced anger. Also, this is easier for me to write about than Hamlet write now. So bear with me.

The first thing that got me, here, is the use of the word "you're" in the second cause of each phrase. It's not an issue, apparently, of "people think you are" or "your most common label is," but simply "you are" fake, a slut, whatever. That's absurd. Someone calling you something does not make it so. I may be being nit-picky, but the difference between hearing a label placed on you and letting it define you is immense.

I don't know why this in particular set me off but I feel like the spirit of passivity embedded in this complaint is actually too much to bear. There's a step in there that's missing. You act some way, members of a society find some way to belittle you, and suddenly you become whatever they label you as? It doesn't have to work that way. Fine, you're sick of snap judgements and trying to impress people? Don't talk about how everything is so fucked up and we need to have more time having fun- talk about how people need to be nice to each other.

Think before you speak. Give people the benefit of the doubt. Try to bite down the snap judgments of other people that make you feel better about yourself. I know, listening to people tell you you're something can be hard not to listen to, but we can try. This is a we, everyone since ever has dealt with it, and it's not a problem of our generation specifically.

I guess that's why this really made me mad. Because our generation doesn't suck. Our generation is pushing the boundaries of technology use day by day, and we're becoming more involved in our world as we get more connected to it. Look what happened to SOPA. We killed it. That was, in large part, us. So chin up. Things aren't so bad.

I mean come on. We're the god damn Harry Potter generation, motherfuckers.

the thing that pisses me off the most is how fucked up our generation is. You wear make-up, you're fake. You don't wear make up, You're ugly. You have sex, you're a whore. You don't have sex, you're square. If you have curves, you're fat. If you don't have curves, you're anorexic. You talk to boys, you're a slut. You don't talk to boys, you're a loser. Everything is so fucking irrelevant. We spend most of our time trying to impress others when really we should concentrate on being ourselves and having fun. Our generation fucking sucks.