No cure for society's
problems
Brandon Moeller
Opinion Columnist
No cure for the summertime blues. No cure
for perpetual wartime: It's the economy, stupid!
No cure for the uninformed and apathetic
mass of citizenry that clogs the freeways, consuming natural resources
and heading home
at the end of the day to produce unplanned
offspring at rates unseen on this planet.
No cure for having to work a third of every
weekday for the rest of your pathetic measly life. No cure for rules and
regulations you never
signed off on. No cure for changing the
fine print on the contracts you do have to sign, oftentimes in blood.
No cure for AIDS, mental disorders, mad
cow disease or even the common cold.
No cure for depression; take the red pill
and the blue pill and call no doctor, in the morning. No cure for the drug-producing
machines:
renew their patents and disallow generics;
saving money is bad for you.
No cure for capitalism and its thousand
Enrons, its value of billfold-sized documents over the human spirit, its
constant quest for
expansion and excess.
No cure for racism, sexism, elitism, claustrophobia,
homophobia or the multi-tiered American class system.
No cure that will fill Judy Bari's lungs
with air for two seconds, just long enough for her to sigh away the years
of hard work and pain.
No cure for spending so much effort for
a few-decade-delayed settlement with the federal government proving that
she didn't disable
herself by placing that bomb under her
car, that it was an anti-abortion fanatic and a government-backed conspiracy
to frame her and
defame her Earth First organization.
No cure for injustice (notice how the word
justice is ceremoniously mocked in American society). Americans need to
understand that
the justice system is a failure. No cure
for ignorance-is-bliss mentalities: No one wants to sit in jail or think
about those who are
sitting there.
No cure for the Chuck Rosenthals, for the
police state, for state-sanctioned murders and killer cops. No cure for
juries who buy into
fancy rhetoric applied by well-paid attorneys
("If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit"). If the record is shredded,
society be damned.
No cure for nicotine cravings or alcoholism;
dependencies that bring momentary relief and an awkward near-death feeling
in the
morning. No cure for lame, nagging girlfriends.
No cure for the organized Christian church
that could end war and famine by motivating its constituents, but instead
supports the
non-Christian war-mongering status quo
by claiming to be non-political.
There are no cures. Treat the symptoms.
Try to remain hopeful; it aids mental health. Preach forgiveness.
It's hot. I'm hurried and lazy. Choke on
this.
Moeller, a senior communication major,
can be reached at Brandonmoeller@hotmail.com
