"The Vorlons Vs. Barak Obama"

I am so much more excited about watching Babylon 5 season two tonight with Robyn and Josh then I am about the election. I don't know what it is. I voted, but don't care about the outcome really. I can't decide if that's a new kind of voter apathy or not.



It's not that I'm lazy, uninformed, or anything of those natures. I guess when it comes down to it, Id rather solve the problems of tomorrow then the problems of toady, Even if tomorrows problems don't necessarily exist. I guess that's why I voted for Nader too. I can only see the future. I don't want to work for anything in life. I want it all handed to me on a silver splatter.



Relationships, Political revolutions, my writing, none of it should require me to do any work because it all boils down to entertainment. That is what we get out of these things and everything else for that matter. So I suppose it comes down to what the most is entertaining to you. Do you want to work for something or not?



Me? Well, I am a twenty year old American reading wikipedia articles about nihilism and strange matter on voting day. Counting down the hours until my girlfriend comes home and we eat a simple meal. Then I can begin to watch old sci-fi my friends have on DVD to waste time. I think I have made my priorities clear.



Its funny, a year ago I was convinced that my generation was going to change everything. I thought I was going to help it along, maybe become some figure head of a cultural revolution. I still think things are going to change, a lot in fact, but I think that change wont matter. Its as if its all been orchestrated. Take me and my friends for example, we are perfect American consumers.



I am by no means the typical person one would think of when American consumerism is mentioned…but I really am the prime example if you think of it. I am not a New York socialite spending hundreds on a coat I will wear one time, and I am not the middle class family that spends all its money at Wal-Mart, but I am complacent in life and need to buy things. The only difference is what I buy, and really it is no difference at all.



I buy the things that only those anti consumerist buy. I buy tofu, soy milk, egg replacement, books by Vonnegut, Camu, Burroughs, and Kafka, I buy all this stuff. The organic spinach, the meat free hot dogs, the early 19th century anarchist thought, the post modern literary movement fuelled by existentialism, all of this shit is still bought. I used to think I'm buying the stuff that should be bought. Everyone else is just a slave, with their pork roast, deep fried milky ways, mindless action movies, slapstick high school comedies, and empty romance novels. But after thinking about it, we are all the same.



That is why I am the prime example of the American consumerist. I willingly buy into the system while not only not realizing it, but thinking that I am actively fighting it. My whole culture was created for me, for that purposeful reason. So now when they are telling me I should be "Ba-Rocking the vote" and watching it all come in live on CNN(if I'm a liberal) or FOX(if I'm a conservative) I am awaiting a sci-fi show that focuses on how morals and thoughts change over time, and what that means to hold an opinion on something.



Its because it entertains me, plain and simple, but maybe not so simple because it comes back to that question about voter apathy. I think true voter apathy now a days is going out and getting your cute little "I Voted Today" sticker, a free cup of coffee from your local star bucks, and sitting back to watch it all fold out the way its been written. We were brought up in this as seen on TV culture, it is up to us to tell the censorship board to fuck off and start living a life free of marketed influences.