America

Hello world! It's been a while....

Anyways, I watched the Hunger Games again the other day. Great movie, even better books. The thing that gets me about the Hunger Games isn't the violence or gore, although those are sad. What gets me is the similarities between America and the Capital. Now for those of you who don't know much about Hunger Games: the Capital is the government and upper class of the dystopian world which the Games take place in. The Capital is the one who forces innocent kids to fight to the death. They're the ones who throw up in order to eat more food, while people are starving. The Capital is full of people who are too absorbed in themselves to see that they are killing people. Sound familiar?

I wrote a little poem about our society, so here you go:

We think we are honorable
Because we save trees,
We think we are kind
Because we don't eat animals,
We think we are brave
Because we are feminists,
We think we are generous
Because we support the locals,
We think we are saints
Because others are worse,
We ignore the facts
And we kill babies,
We support slavery,
We thknk we are royalty,
Because we are,
We're put on a pedestal
And can't be bothered
By people below us,
We are not perfect
And we don't have to be these things,
But we choose to,
We can make a change,
And we don't.


Now, this poem wasn't meant to say that everyone is a terrible person, but rather that we have the means to help others. So I am saying to everyone: go change the world.