and the story goes...

melanyouth:

(via ronenreblogs):

digitalyn:

Repeat after me: I am FREE. (via pshab)

I’ve seen this photo a million times and it always bugs the shit out of me. I know the people that write shit like this don’t know any better, but I’m being honest when I say I think it’s puerile.

For one thing, most people don’t want much out of life: they want to have a family, they want to feel safe in their home, they want their kids to do well in school, they want to retire with all their limbs intact, they want to watch the game on Saturday and wash the decently running car on Sunday. They like to feel they are smarter than the idiots that run things and if they are vaguely dissatisfied with their life, well, that’s to be expected; no matter our achievements, we all feel like there could be something more to this deal. Inferring that “normalcy” is intrinsically wrong is something people do right up until they “sell out”, which 95% of all kids eventually do (and the 5% that don’t are usually considered losers).

Secondly, I’m guessing the person that graffiti’d this probably lives a manifestly unattractive alternative - why didn’t they graffiti something like:

“Sit around all day wishing you had something to do, live off the government, risk imprisonment to shoplift the same kind of clothes all your anarcho-indie friends wear, act like the world owes you a living, watch other people’s TVs and beg for rides in other people’s cars, eat out of dumpsters, break the law then be a pussy about incarceration; repeat after me: I am free.”

Thirdly, freedom is relative, though that might not be obvious to someone enslaved to an infantile ideology.

/rant