You know how when you want to watch a movie with a friend or your brother, or whoever, and you go to the big rack of dvd's and you start scanning them and all those titles just don't appeal to you and it ends up taking you, like, 20 minutes just to figure out which movie you're in the mood for? Well if it's really *that* difficult for us to choose something as banal as what movie to watch, how in God's name are we supposed to make actual, important decisions? Obviously we do, sometimes every day, and everyone has been forever. What I mean to explore is whether or not we're really the best candidate for making our own decisions.
What it comes down to is whether or not you value your free will. This seems like a dumb questioning, since we're all *so* enamored with our free will, but think about it. When you're a child and you don't want to go to school after some equally undeveloped youngster made fun of you, or what have you, your parents MADE you go to school. It wasn't ever a question, it was the simple fact that they KNEW better. Then you grow up and start making your own decisions. But are you really grown up? I mean, we start thinking for ourselves around 10, and then start doing what we want between the ages of 16 and 19. But think of all the stupid decisions you've made. I can list a whole bunch. Not of yours, of mine, mind you :P But yes, I've made plenty of idiotic choices. Choices which, if they were made differently would result in a completely different Jordan Gregoire.
Now, if, somehow, there were a system in place where your decisions were made for you; your important ones anyways (buying a car, getting a job, proposing to the person you love, etc.), and they were made in the most logical and reasonable fashion, wouldn't everybody be better off? Like, for serious? Totally they would. We all would. Free will is, in this day and age, an excuse for the youth of North America to royally fuck their lives up. Not everyone does, but a lot do. Highest rates of debt, highest rates of obesity, highest rates of suicide, highest rates of teen pregnancy. It's stupid really. Why hasn't anyone DONE anything about it? The country is constantly pumping money into bullshit aid programs that are so diluted and run down the government ladder that by the time the funding reaches the "professionals" in charge, every blue collar's taken a fucking cookie. That isn't the solution, as is evident by the shitty track record, but it seems nobody has a clue how to really fix it. I do. Fascism. Real fascism. For the good of your country! For the good of yourselves! For the good of your children! I've praised it once, and I'll praise it again. If one person, man, woman, black, white, I don't care, can get the shit rolled into one giant ball, a fascist government could spin that giant fecal sphere into an equally giant trundle of golden hopes and dreams.
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