Hey everyone. Saturday night Nial had a party.
During this party two people I associate with became intoxicated, and found themselves in control of a motor vehicle. Foolish and dangerous as this was, as I attempted to scold them one retorted with (in)arguable logic: “If I’m going the speed limit, it shouldn’t matter if I’m drunk” and “it’s their fault for being in the way”. Unfortunately this argument has occurred more than once, with the same response.
Hearing this made me absolutely furious, almost to the point where I was tempted to kick him out of our car (being driven, this time, by a sobre person) and let him be savaged by the night. Every day I seem to come across more and more stupidity, and lo and behold it comes from people my own age, who I have the unfortunate curse of growing old and establishing a world for those to follow us with. Homophobes. Sexists. Racists. Murderers. Rapists. There’s a famous movie featuring Robert De Niro called “Taxi Driver”, and included is a quote that goes something like ‘one day a real rain will come and wash all the trash off the streets’ (sorry if this is wrong, I have no time to research the line for accuracy). At the moment I think if this rain were to come today, there wouldn’t be too many people walking around. Yes, drink drive. Yes, fight anyone. Yes, discriminate. Fuck you and fuck this world.
I wish I was born 40 years ago. People before us have fought for so much. Democracy. Free thought, speech and media (despite the obvious bias the media have for a good headline over the truth). Gay and civil rights. The right to vote for our own leaders for fuck sake, and all I can see is it coming to shit for nothing but uninformed fuckheads. Growing up past 20 is the worst option I can think of right now.
