We need a revolt.

It's been a while, I apologize for that, but it wasn't until now that I found some inspiration.

OK, so I was watching ABC News just now, and their top stories all involve the rising costs of Memorial Day festivities. Jet fuel has risen 91%, gas prices are up by, well, a lot, and even things like hot dogs and buns are up by at least 20%. The class gap is widening before my eyes as people can't afford to drive anywhere while the Exxon executives swim in a pile totaling $40 billion.

Then, the real bombshell dropped. There was a story about the booming mortgage foreclosure industry, and Charlie Gibson says something to the effect of: "The misfortunes of some become opportunities for others." He said it in such a nonchalant way that it made me scream in my head: "AND WE'RE OK WITH THIS!?!?" We're OK with people losing their homes and life savings while others rake in the dough off their misery? Is this accepted as the SOP in America today, where a company is allowed to beat down his fellow human being just to make a profit? Why don't they just grab us and shake us upside down until money falls out; at least that would be less underhanded and insulting. I'm just mad about how my situation has been exacerbated by the criminal acts of our government, about how people in China and Burma are homeless and starving and dying because their government was too selfish and too greedy to protect and support them.

Wake up, people. You're just a number on a page to the vast majority of people in power here and around the world. If you can't help make a profit for a company and all those sucking on that teat, then they don't care if you live or die. As a matter of fact, they'd rather have you dead, because that way you wouldn't be taking up space and resources that would be better used lining their own pockets. When did the world become a place to survive in as opposed to one where you are welcomed and encouraged? I don't know, I just don't know sometimes if humanity has the right to exist. What have we really done besides rape the environment and sacrifice our fellow creatures to grow our population; maybe we are a virus like Agent Smith said, a scourge on the face of this planet.

I'm not condemning the good-hearted people out there in business and pop culture; people like Trent Reznor who make music because they enjoy it, not for the money it brings. People who make art for the beauty and the reaction of their audience, not for the marketing and advertising revenue it can make. For a timely example, I love the Indy series as much as anyone, and George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are artistic geniuses, but I wonder if their hearts are in the right place. Georgy-boy didn't make all that cash by being lucky, he was smart: he demanded all merchandising revenue for the Star Wars franchise for all time, in lieu of a large salary. Last time I checked, he hasn't donated much of anything to the needy, or gone down to New Orleans to help rebuild. No, he's content to hog it all and ignore the suffering he sees around him. And you know what's really ironic about that? He made a small-budgeted film in 1971 called THX 1138 about the dehumanization of society by mindless consumerism. Very prescient, George.

My new philosophy: If I see one more self-centered, uncaring, rich mother-fucker telling me or anyone else how I should lead my life, he/she is getting mailed a card that says: "You have lost your decency. Would you like to buy it back for a small fee?"