Karl+Z+'s+Op-Ed+Article

Mainstream American society generally irritates me. It promotes the blinding of people to the outside world and a weird sort of “individual-nationalism” that limits our potential as humans. As long as you’re going to college and working your face off until you’re about 70 years old, you’re cool. Listen to the crap on the radio, because it’ll help you become a good consumer in a world that doesn’t need any more consumers. People are starving in third world countries? There’s no profit in that, so they don’t absolutely have to eat. The world’s all about the cash you can make, and definitely not about what you do in the world to make it a better place. I mean, the sun’s bound to die in several billion years so there’s no point anyways. Make all the money you can and bury it with you seems to be the exhortation from the culture I’ve grown up in. You know what? Duck what everyone else thinks, I’ll be a happily poor historian doing what I love- learning about other countries and the past mistakes of humanity while trying to find ways to progress humanity.