Divine Manifesto

 What has happened to the American dream? You know,two cars and a house, private or Catholic school for the kids, golf courses, and brunches at fancy outdoor restaurants. Well the millennial generation from which Im a part  of regretfully knows no dreams. Whether born in sordid suburbs between two major cities or up in the eastern Palisades to rich yet absentee parents something somewhere went amiss. The conservator Bloc could blame it on the loss of God and guidance of religion or the negative effect of rap/rock music that glorified apathy and of course the ever growing realism of the internet and video games which lead mid to late teens on a path to their parents basementinto their twenties. Statistics show more young adults still live at home more then any prior generation by leaps and bounds, especially the male age range of 18-35. Maybe the home school movement could have had a hand in this growing trend. Marriages are also in steep decline even in utopian style suburbs. By now you may ask is this the beginning of the decay of western society some predicted during the more apathetic times of the early nineties? I say it's been building up to this point. In my opinion over protective parents, poor educational environments, and an the over importance on avoiding being bullied or deemed an outcast by their peers could have led to a mostly below average existence by any standards. 

  Now we get to the whitest beige elephant in the room for any kid born after 1981. That would be the beautiful yet monstrous feeling of opiates. So readily available as they were in the early 2000's a tooth extraction could get you a prescription of ninety 10 mg percocet. Without as much as a token warning about the extreme likelihood of misuse that could lead to addiction the "doctors", dentists, and physical therapists with I'm sure a push  from greedy pharmacutical companies that willfully pushed these dangerous drugs to make billions despite the knowingly dire effect it would have on their fellow human beings. In contrast it was basically a government sanctioned Mexican drug cartel only even more dangerous and obtainable for curious or misguided youth. We reach the late 2010's and they labelled it, (perhaps ten to fifteen years late) an epidemic and finally looked to hold ghoulish fiends like the Sackler brothers responsible for the suffering and deaths of millions of Americans, for a fucking profit. I've heard on the streets of my urban neighborhoods for years how it became a newsworthy issue when the problem entered the upper class white areas and heroin replaced oxycodone. There's certainly truth to that belief, but I feel it went even higher. The super rich, families of politicians, Heath Ledger, Phil Hoffman, dying of overdoses or for some lucky ones (Lindsay Lohan) numerous trips to drug rehabs disguised as health spas. So my question to you the reader, was this a purposeful push by indignant drug companies to make their billion or just an unfortunate turn of events helped along by short-sighted lacks in regulation. Conspiracy theorist I'm sure ears are ringing. I mean the Iraq war we found out was more then just about oil after we found out who held massive stock in Lockheed Martin and haliburton (I'm looking at you Mr. Fuck Cheney). Perhaps the government had their filthy hands in this 21st century epidemic of track marks, methadone clinics and eventual death. What's that about money being the root of all evil? Well for those who owned stocks in pharmacutical companies for about a decade I bet money may have grown on trees.