JESI IS AWESOME

I’m fed up.

It’s one of those things I never expected to have, one of those things I’ve only read about in the novels I’ve studied as part of the whole damn system that’s pissing me off so much. It’s a generation disillusionment - I am part of a lost generation, and I am being told it’s my fault.

My fault! When I work my ass off for four years, when I get myself into tens of thousands of pounds in debt, just to have a piece of paper at the end of it that says I am smart because apparently my passion for the arts and my wealth of life experiences don’t mean shit, aren’t “employable”.

My fault, when the job market is so saturated from desperate people trying to work off a debt sentence because the economy is beyond help and people are pumping more money towards football players and celebrities rather than doctors and teachers, and regardless of degrees we’re all begging to sweep the god damn floor at McDonald’s just so we can make rent.

My fault. When students are living below the poverty line, surviving on the same amount of money a day as a person in a third world country, while all around us the voluntarily unemployed, the irresponsible and the lazy all cash in benefits amounted to more than what we’d earn in a year and still the newspapers scream that students are the disgusting beggars of the nation.

My fucking fault when I spend a lifetime being told to learn this, obey that, being told to fall in line and be obedient without question, being taught the single correct interpretation of a book, the single correct way to solve a math problem, the single correct way to reach the only acceptable conclusion because “that’s how it is in the real world” - well I’m in the real world now, and that’s bullshit, because employers want individuality, innovation, experience, original thinking, and school punished me for demonstrating all of these things.

It’s my fault - my entire generation’s fault - because our elders can’t face up to the fact that their system is flawed and failing and broken, and they did this, they sowed the seeds of this destruction and now we’re expected to fix it.

Fuck them.

I will love passionately and learn freely and create beautifully without restraint and when I am called out for it I will answer with the question that’s been on my lips for years.

“Ticking the right boxes? Jumping through the right hoops? Yeah, how’s that been working out for society?”

- We were programmed into robots and there is a bug in the code. (via angrynerdyblogger)