Quoheleth

Yeah, you know, I basically think that Dan Savage is a clown, and I find the whole "It Gets Better Campaign" to be exactly the sort of cheaply sentimental, we-are-the-world, C-list celebrity self-love-fest that I most despise, in which hugely lucky and successful individuals with lives of comfort and privilege far beyond that which any reasonable person might expect blather to kids about how great their lives are going to be, when, let's face it, for a lot of them, life is going to be pretty bleak, not because they are gaylesbianbiseckshultranngeed, but because they are destined for a gray adulthood of deskbound wageslavery in a crumbling imperium caught in the last vicious, violent throes of its own impending, senescent diminution. Instead of being bullied for being swishy, they will be bullied by tyrannical bosses, sociopathic corporations, cops, landlords, taxmen, banks, mortgage lenders, credit card companies, etc. Their burdens will not decrease, but become ever greater, but they will by then have been more fully indoctrinated with the pernicious ideology of responsibility, and suicide, finally a rational escape from the grand-guignol horromedy of American life, will seem to them an abdication beyond the realm of contemplation, and so they will slog on in their misery, through demotion and divorce, through forclosure and debt, through a miserable lifetime of work punctuated by a sadly hollow leisure dominated by vacuous entertainment and lousy cocktails until an old age marked by decrepitude, isolation, confusion, and lonely--but natural, at least--death. But at least they won't feel ammoral cuz they like dicks.

Anyway, that said, um, I do agree with him: fuck fucking Obama. Fuck that guy. What a bunch of sententious pricks.