Alright, your turn....

You, sir, make far too many assumptions about me. I'm aware that nobody owes me anything and I'm certainly no "commie", as you brand all left-leaning people. Nobody ever told me I was special, since I was raised by cold parents, but I'm aware of my creative and intellectual gifts, yes. Oh, I do think I'm owed decriminalized drugs, yes, since it's not for any paternalistic despots to tell me what I can do with my consciousness.

You don't strike me as being quite so much of a moron as your average traditionalist (you're capable of coherent speech, at any rate, which is rare), so it's quite sad that you've fallen victim to the reactionary, "liberal-media-hating", warmongering mindset. Such people grow up in say-grace families, become convinced that their country has the right to bloodily defend its idiotic values, that marriage is for sexual conformists, that any opposition to corporate pillaging is just commie talk, etc. They're incapable of any free thought, simply taking an aggressive stance for the ideas they were raised on. One nation under God, my country right or wrong, let's fight for our "freedom"...never moves past what was hammered into them from the cradle. But of course, in their mind their obsolete views are self-evident and that damn media is to blame for any dissidents...forget that the media is most hospitable to mainstream values and rarely endorses anything radical or anarchistic. It's that damn media.

Bottom line: my ideas allow for peace, equality and freedom from cultural indoctrination. Yours allow for war, corporate slavery and adherence to the same outdated teachings learned from Pa. Why do you think so many artists are dissidents? Could it be they have the ability to go beyond what they were brought up on? Hmmm. Few men of vision tend to think much of the status quo. The simple people...well, that's another matter. For them anyone who thinks outside the box will always be a freak and a threat.

Steve...don't think I'll ever crawl in bed with the status quo. Sorry. Too many epiphanies too early in life.