In the interim, I've accumulated vast wealth and spent it all on other people and myself. That's how I roll, we all know this. I've also moved to the big smoke have become and Angry Young Man, started standup and founded The Heidelberg Antisocial Club and the Gentleman's Collar comedy group.
I've also been tweeting on and off. Today Andrew Breitbart supporters lashed out at me for asking him if it hurts to be a liar, and on the local front, I got the wrath of a grown up.
For those with lives, Angry Anderson fFormerly King Herod of JCS and the lead singer of Aussie institution Rose Tattoo) joined a no Carbon Tax rally today, allying himself with Australia's champion climate change deniers, along with intellectual luminaries Pauline Hanson and Tony Abbot.
I tweeted about this. I said the following:
"Angry Anderson: Turns out he's just as big a sell-out as the rest of his generation. #nosurprisethere"
"Angry Anderson: Turns out he's just as big a sell-out as the rest of his generation. #nosurprisethere"
Two hours later, a Grown Up responded.
From @ucantsathat:
"Whats your generation done for anyone."
"Whats your generation done for anyone."
Now, I'm pretty sure that this gent is using a social networking tool that our generation developed. WINNING! (Thank you, Charlie)
I'm sure this man is lovely. I'm absolutely certain of it. However. I assume he is in the age bracket of Mr. Anderson. And as such would be at the very least a tail end baby boomer. There is a lot of speculation going on here.
So let's play my favourite song. It's a little number called "How Fucking Dare You".
To this man I say the following, as I did when I replied to that tweet:
Oh, what have WE done? You mean apart from join up to the Army only to be shipped off to two illegal wars, invent social networking, become the main target of the consumer market, slave away so we can live in houses we rent because we'll never own one, cop profiling at events, write the best in tv, working in the charities that do the work for others that you can't comprehend, embrace the ideals that died with your souls and generally try and undo the damage your lot did forty or so years ago? Oh shit, not much then. AREN'T WE JUST THE WORST?
So let's see what YOU did.
- Did all the drugs, then did your very best to criminalize them all
- Sped up the decay of the planet's natural resources
- Continually vote people into power who had no interest in helping the country as a whole
- Cause three economic recessions since 1981
- Blurred the very important line between Church and State
- Protest every single positive change in the last twenty years
- Use, use, use & use every natural resource with no heed to the irreparable damage you could be causing
- Stifle artistic expression, yet give Gene Simmons a platform to make millions
- And bred a level of self-interest and small -mindedness so insidious in our culture that we're all guilty of.
And also, don't pull the "you're ungrateful" bullshit with me. We're all grateful on some level. We're just not going to waste it on people who ruined our history and still sing along to The Who with that knowledge. Happiness comes to me only with knowing that someday we'll be in the positions of power. Here's hoping we do a better job.
Fuck you.
