Peace Is Not A Love Story, Nina

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I get that we are supposed to take care of God’s creation. Nobody said that I have to facilitate the cycle of nature. Nobody told me that the Earth needed environmental superheroes until it was a fad. Vinyl is out and canvas is in. Give me a break. Bohemian Chic does not exist. It’s fictional. Entirely made up to cater to the demographic who are searching for something that will make them feel like they are a good person. Half the world cares, and half the world could care less. Somehow, though, we are all stuck in this cyclone of earth saving trends. If you buy earrings posted on recycled paper, you are just going to throw it away. I bet you five bucks you don’t care. Yay recycling. Don’t get me wrong. I am not booing recycling. In fact, I have been recycling since birth. When I was little, though, it didn’t make me cool that I recycled. I wasn’t environmentally friendly because I had a compost bin in my back yard. Nah, that was just whatever. Once our internet’s wonderful founder set the globe on fire, though, you’re freaking Hester Prynne if you dare to toss a water bottle anywhere without that stupid triangle on it. I don’t recycle to make you feel like we are changing the world. We are not changing the world. According to the recycling fascist’s own media, we are still waiting for the world to change. If your hero John Mayer knows that we aren’t changing the world, just waiting on it, and you are obsessed with his song because it’s so “meaningful” and it’s all about “activism”(aka waiting on a planet to change?), then do you even listen? This is a cycle. It is a cycle. There was an ice age. It melted. There was an ice age. It melted. Cycle. Cycle. It’s a vicious circle. Stop trying to stop nature by “saving” it.

And hey. By the way. You don’t know what you are talking about. If I start running my mouth about some celebrity that I know nothing about—if I just start saying things for the sake of fitting in with other people saying things (and saying the things that they are saying without an added thought just because I want to fit in)—if I organize the majority of people against something that you know, and I make it into something that it is not, you wouldn’t be happy. You can hate war. You can be anti-war. I do agree that that is better than being dead. But I guess you don’t agree. I guess you don’t value your life enough to look at what is going on that is affecting you. The war doesn’t exist to inflate your daily expenses. It’s not there to give you something to act out against. It’s there for a reason, and that reason is to protect you. Look it up. This has never been a war without cause, you just want to make it one. You can’t tell happy stories, the media wont eat them up like they do scandal and flaw. If you tell a success story that doesn’t appear to change life as we know it, nobody wants to hear it. But if you can formulate a reason for their expenses going up, they will buy it. You will be rich. You will have money and they will have a scandal to occupy their attention. (Nevermind treaties and alliances like the UN. Forget about over ten peace resolutions that terrorists have rejected over ten years. You hit my friends, I’m gonna hit you. That was the deal. People don’t know that.) Protesting makes them feel good. That has been established. With nothing to protest, people are unhappy. You can’t win. They are bored with nothing and outraged with anything. There is no such thing as world peace if there is no such thing as peace per country. People don’t want righteousness, they want happiness.