You Have No Future

Pour out the beer.   Skip the Xanax.  Turn off the television.  Pause the YouTube video.  Put down the IPhone.  You have been lied to.  You will not be a princess, a model, or a fashion magazine editor.  You will not be an investment banker, an athlete, or a gentleman of leisure.  You will not be on television.  You will not be President or a Senator.  You have no future.

 You probably borrowed money to attend college.  You were told that you could do anything with a good education.  You were informed that borrowing money was justified by your expected future earnings.  When you graduated there were no jobs waiting for you.  After four years of studying Jane Austen, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Black-Scholes pricing models you have no discernible skills.

You probably borrowed more money to attend graduate school, probably law school.  You were told that you could do anything with a law degree.  You were informed that borrowing money was justified by your expected future earnings.  When you graduated there were no jobs waiting for you.  After three years of studying contracts, criminal law, and critical theory, you still have no discernible skills.

You probably do not have a job.  I suggest you use your free time to see the movie Taking Woodstock or Netflix the original Woodstock documentary.  Watch a care-free generation of baby boomers love the environment by driving hundreds of miles to attend a rock concert.  Watch the baby boomers protect the planet from overpopulation by practicing free love.  Watch the baby boomers keep money out of the hands of fascist regimes by using marijuana and cocaine.  Watch the baby boomers make future wars impossible by protesting Vietnam. 

Then . . . think.  You did what the baby boomers told you to do.  You borrowed money to attend the best schools you could.  You live in the city and do not drive a car.  You do not engage in reckless unprotected sex.  You do not do drugs.  Your friends are in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting resource wars dreamed up by the baby boomers.    

Really think.  All you have to show for obedience is a cramped apartment, some low-quality Chinese clothes and gadgets, some dead friends, and a mountain of debt.   

You have no future.  You should be very, very angry.