Televised Lies

I am stereotyped to a group

“Today’s youth”

Characterized as a party crowd,

Drinking, drugs, sex all around,

False accusations, we drink less, smoke less,

The teen pregnancy rate is much lower than our parents

but we’re still told we have ailments:

We have been unfairly defined

Look up statistics online

Doped up minds that are desensitized

Need protection,

Think of the children,

The children are thinking,

We’ve grown up

And we’ve woken up

 

To a world that is shitty,

we can all agree

But it will stay just as shitty

If people stand submissively

Are you going to stand there,

and say you don’t care?

While your kids are helping kids,

your teens unified in prayer,

Volunteering, donating, more than any other age,

We rage our support for people in need.

 

So tell me again that youth are the bane on economy,

While we’re the only ones trying to better society.

Are you so sure we only care about ourselves,

when we went mad about Kony 2012?

I’m not part of this movement just because it’s a trend

I see it as a step to drive capitalism to its end.

It’s insulting to hear that all generations are the same

While my generation is trying to change the whole game.

 

One man shouldn’t own all the land,

While the rest have none to share,

Even toddlers in day care

know that’s unfair.

Feudalism collapsed with capitalism on the hue,

But the oppression continues.

 

This world is a war

between the rich and the poor,

Yes, life is a fight,

but the knights aren’t on our side.

To get out of this night,

we must reunite again

Like we did after the book boom,

Sending the King to his tomb.

Except this time, they’re CEO’s

And we’re the hungry, hungry hobos.

This revolution we aren’t starving for bread

But stuff, useless stuff,

Things they told us we need instead.

Self Proclaimed Dr. Z, well said,

“We’re social creatures by nature,

Greed is a socially corrupted feature.”

 

If you’re like me,

and don’t like being dominated by money

Be whiney about this,

go on a spree,

I beg of you please,

go on your facebook news feed,

Spend time on the internet, learn the truth

Become the pirates that they fear so much,

It is the only way we’ll get out of the corporations clutch.

share information, break copyright, and speak openly.

Because while open markets recede, 

open networks succeed.

And impede on an old way of thinking.

Syncing into the depths of your ipod mind,

The blind remind them;

Equality is enshrined by all mankind,

And the youth make it possible.

 

Our world doesn’t just consume anymore, 

And we need to settle the score,

Protests and petitions,

Professional vs self published, 

They will hear our roar.

Don’t tell me to adapt or die,

Because I’d rather die than adapt to bullshit lies.

Educate yourself, make a decision.

Then do everything in your power to stand behind that decision. Fight for it. Convince everyone you meet to think the same way.