"The GDP measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile."
-- Robert F. Kennedy
Apparently there was once a time that politicians questioned the house of cards modern America is built on. Before they were shot for it, at least.
Forty years since RFK's truly tragic assassination, we seem to be further than ever from his ideals. The US has shifted so far right that Obama has to watch what he says for fear of alienating a strange and terrible demographic called "values voters," or those who substitute the Bible for reason, and the GDP is God.
Meanwhile, we sell our time to buy what we wish we were. Love and nature are quaint relics from a time before we were born, which we can only awkwardly reference, wishing we understood them, and that they hadn't been sold to cable, for sale at the mall.
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this post made me cry
and made me want to be a better person.
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