These past few weeks on the news it has been Occupy Wall Street this and Occupy Wall Street that but depending on your few it is either wall street is an issue or it isn't. Now to be fair there are a few CEOs of billion dollar companies that reap ridiculous benefits and got their out of their own hard work and dedication. HOWEVER! Many CEOs have done NO work for their companies own a ridiculous amount of stuff and don't think twice about what they have that other people don't.
Those who believe that all CEOs have worked hard in their lives to get there are in denial. Denial about rich people's workmanship, Denial about their own mediocrity, Denial about what they can achieve in this day and age.
People who say that Wall Street isn't an issue are either working for wall Street or they are in denial. No one wants to say that our government is corrupt (and it has been since the end of Nixon's Presidency), that politicians and big business owners care only about themselves, their money, and their campaign for reelection.
We are all in denial. We all try to rearrange our thoughts so that we don't have to worry about the nation, the environment, the world,we just have to worry about our facebook posts and what we are going to eat at dinner.
So it is no wonder that half of the country still doesn't know or care about what Occupy Wall Street means or what they are standing for. Life in America has become a life of denial and that is why we have fallen behind the rest of the world and why we are never happy.
And on that note, I am going to go outside, enjoy the trees and life around me, and soak up every minute of happiness for myself so that I don't become another mindless drone of consumerism.
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