L.E.D., you shall blink.

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It would be tough for me to be more pessimistic about the world, right now. I am also one of the many thoughtful people (I guess), who just assumed that the average American had loftier expectations, less in the way of ignorance, more in the way of openmindedness. But I was way, way wrong.

But alright. Maybe the average outlook is no less valid than my own. That's okay. It just means that this country won't be "free" like I would expect it to be. It will never be an enlightened country. I should be a European or a Canadian. Exactly.

And so there are all of the forms. Forms and applications that Tim has downloaded over the past week.

Forms and applications for Canadian immigration. Forms for the Peace Corps. Forms for joining expeditions to Antarctica. Applications for the first manned mission to Mars. Applications for becoming a Vietnamese butler. Applications for herding goats on the Gobi desert. Applications for becoming the Prime Minister of Madagascar.

Basically, anything but being an American. Or being the type of person that Americans will have to be becoming, morer or lesser. If America will be the land of anything-goes-consumerism and nothing-goes-on-in-your-bedroom-without-us-judging-you-for-it and ... umm.. well. The land of lowered expectations.

Maybe I'm just preferring to be bitter, at the moment.

Yes, I'm sure of it.

I have been cutting people off in traffic. I have been driving like a Jersey maniac in smalltown Mississippi. I have been flaunting my yankee accent. I have been egging on arguments.

I never do that. So I must be inbetween piss & vinegar. piss-ant and vinegar-ant. or fire-ant. Ouch,

I would probably even blare a Pisces Iscariot cassette at loudest possible volumes, if I were to have one.

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But I'm not kidding myself about the national polarization that's been going on. And that will continue. We have never been so divisible.

With devotees even doing circles: Liberals getting so pissed off at their own, that they begin to say anything to spite Liberalism.

...Conservatives... not so much.

But definitely, the spiteful Liberals. For sure..

It would be better to escape into the countryside and into the mountains with a pint of moonshine and a pretend-loaf-of-bread. To get our minds off of the televisiontalking. But I guess that's not an option.

I never even considered the gay marriage issue the least bit important. Maybe that's because I'm somewhat unthoughtful/insensitive and I don't personally care about it, but I just figured that if I WERE gay, would I even care about if I could get married or not? And I said "No."

And then I thought, "Well, who would my first boyfriend be?"

And I thought for awhile, but then I stopped. Leonardo DiCaprio was not the final conclusion.

Besides, so many heterosexuals have been making a mockery out of the institution of marriage for so long, sometimes it's hard to value it at all.

But somehow the gay marriage thing became important.

I don't understand our priorities.

I almost think everybody's ballot must've said "Bet you're GAY!", and then they all punched the "AM NOT!" chad.

As for my priorities, I would prefer the Mars mission first, then the expedition, then the Viatnamese butler thing sounds interesting, then becoming a Canadian, then the goat-herder, then the Madagascarian political scene, and then if none of those work out, I guess I'll dig ditches and plant seeds for the Peace Corps.

I need to be a lot more selfless than I've been, anyhow. I guess.

A lot less American that I've been for all this time.

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The L.E.D., which is blinking, would like to let you know that morality does not equal religiosity, but that multiple ideals are all equally valid.

Thank you, L.E.D.