Something to get you by

We're still bretty busy with the regime change so to fill the time, heres an old gem of Andrew's: 

Who are we? We are the kids who got ripped from their childhoods as planes smashed into buildings and cars exploded. We sat transfixed, watching something that no child should be allowed to watch. But the people who should have covered our eyes just let us watched and whispered “no you have to see. You have to know what we’ve done and the way things are. Because only you can fix this, only you can make all of it ok again, only you can help. But first, you must see.” We became children trying to be adults with no clue of how to do it. It was like building Legos in the dark with half the pieces missing. And even though we knew it wouldn’t be easy to face when finished, we kept building.

Who are we? We are hey Arnold, and Dexter’s lab. We are coffee shops and American eagle.we are Birkenstock, Wallabies, Crocs, and classic flops. We are john Mayer and Conan O'Brien. we are N’SYNC and Nickleback, We are Rehab's "sitting at the Bar" because we can sing every word. South Park and Family Guy. We are VH1 and Facebook, “The Dark Knight” and “Inception”. We are American Pie 1 and 2 ( and nothing else) We are Ross, Rachel. Joey, Chandler, Monica, and Phoebe. we are the Chappelle's show and "Anchorman". we are Harry Potter and Twilight. we are "The Hangover". we are September 11th and Toby Keith songs.We are Enron and global warming. we are the gulf oil spill. we are the last stubborn remnants of racism and prejudice in america. We are John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and change.We are barrack Obama. We are one hell of a decade.

Who are we? We are nihilists and misanthropes. We are the byproduct of two generations of extremists. We were told of the hippies who raged against to system to little avail but who fucked and smoked themselves into near oblivion and whose message for the ages was to make love and not war. We were shown how their children embraced the system and integrated into it. Changing it, shifting it, corrupting it but not for others, only for themselves and their own selfish gain because after all, greed was good. We discovered the system and came to hate it as much as our forbears did, except we saw forty years and two generations worth of failure come before us. We saw two extreme and polar opposite attacks result only in bitter submission. We are trapped, hopeless, and listless.

So who are we? In short: We are screwed.