Cindy
09 Feb 2015 at 7:06 pm
Has your teenager ever said the following:
“Fuck the police. No really, Mom, fuck them.”
“But I LIKE hummus. Oh, and not hurting animals for food.”
“Why does all authority seem so corrupted?”
“How come we can bomb them but they can’t bomb us?”
“How come we say it’s a war, a ‘battle,’ but the enemy can’t actually shoot back? Not only are our airstrikes and drone strikes are impervious to their weapons, we just blow them away from the sky while just walking around, having weddings or sitting at a café or something.”
“How come we, America, get away with torturing people? Why is Barack ‘Dandy Gandhi’ Obama protecting torturers, war criminals, Wall Street criminals, murdering policemen, polluting corporations and other complete reprobates?”
“American movies about the military unrealistically show the poor, deluded soul-destroyed grunts who serve as ideal figures.”
“Why does that ‘General” have so many merit badges on his smart little uniform when he’s only sent other people to kill and die from the safety of his office?”
“But I LIKE Noam Chomsky. And John Lennon. And Ron Paul.”
“How come we’re allowed to just drone strike people? And how come we can just keep on a-warring without specific congressional approval?”
“Most TV is shit.”
“I can’t identify with either Democrats or Republicans, but I feel strongly that political activism is significant.”
“How come people talk about MLK Jr. but always conveniently forget he was a vibrant antiwar activist who condemned America’s militarism?”
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If you’ve answered ‘yes, my teen talks like this’ to most of these questions, congratulations, you’re being a good parent. The establishment is possibly watching you and your kids, however, or at least storing what you and they do to review later (but hey, they’re trying to do that with everyone), so kudos on being brave, too.
If you’ve answered ‘no,’ you and your progeny are probably conformists, or ‘good Germans.’
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