“One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.”

Two very influential men have made their transition this week.
RIP Howard Zinn and JD Salinger

Howard Zinn's "The People's History of the United States," and numerous of Salinger's short stories [and of course 'The Catcher In the Rye'] made quite an impact on me during my high school education - I guess you could give them some credit for getting my mental clock ticking. But, now- I look at the assortment of writers, directors, artists, and leaders that we have to pick-and-choose from in our current global crisis - a paradigm I like to call: 'OH SHIT! WE'RE FUCKED', and I often wonder who will use their voice for an honest cause? Who will leave a legacy as great as the revolutionaries who paved the road for us to live such a liberated lifestyle? [but also left us with a big fucking dump to clean up!] Who will get up off their lazy asses and start making a scene?






"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."