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The world CAN wait!We just returned from the Pittsburgh World Can't Wait protest. Actually, it never really happened. About 50 people showed up, mainly hardcore activists from the Thomas Merton Center, a local civil rights group. After passing out 3500 flyers and sending local media press kits, hardly no one showed up for the rally. There were more cops there than protesters! The cops had their lights flashing and their dope sniffing dogs. The group of 50 patriots, demoralized, sort of staggered out into the street for a march. I was so angry and depressed I just sat down on the steps and watched the people on their lunch hour; not even noticing the protesters, talking on cell phones, chatting with friends; they didn't seem very preoccupied with the rise of fascism or the potential war without end. They didn't seem too broken up about voting machines or the civilians being butchered in Iraq and other places in our name. They didn't seem to care very much about the torture bill passed by their Congress. They reminded me of zombie bubble heads; their hollow eyes betraying their empty, pathetic little minds, as they come and go on their way to nowhere. It was depressing; I suddenly realized how bankrupt this country really is now. How empty and shallow the people really are behind those apathetic eyes. I no longer have a country. I renounce my citizenship. I cannot be a part of this god damn cyborg culture; It is the very antithesis of freedom!
