MISSION #3 COMPLETED: America the Juvenile Idiot

Should a company be allowed to exist when their sole mission is to post documents and information deemed by their creators to be Top Secret, confidential and not for public viewing? Well whatever you feel the answer to be, the fact is that yes, such companies can and do legally exist.

America, in all its glory, is a bit like a hyper active child when they see or hear about something they want or find interesting. Like little Jimmy who for 2 months can think of nothing but the new action figure with supersonic sound effects but soon after could care less about it and leaves in on the grass for the lawnmower to discover, America too latches onto something big, loud and shinny and for a brief period of time can do nothing else. This past November, WikiLeaks was the biggest and shiniest toy in the store.

It’s a funny thing this day and age; it seems to be a period of time in which no matter how elevated your position, no matter how intellectual, famous, prestigious, or mundane you are, we as a society are on more level of a plane than ever before. I’m not sure how I feel about my senators gossiping about the international garb of foreign dignitaries on their internal back-and-forths. I’m not sure that I like knowing that congressman and school principals and high-powered attorneys thought Black Swan was “OMG so F-IN good and Natalie Portman was 2 hottttt”. Sure, we’re all people with the same genetic makeup but yeesh, I’d like to think that the people running our country are a little too busy with oh, say, running our country, to comment on Britney’s new haircut. That’s something people do with far too much free time do.

Remember that great quote from Eleanor Roosevelt where she exclaimed, “small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events and great minds discuss ideas”? Going by these standards, a very large percentage of Americans then possess very small minds. Can we please try and fix this? ...And I don’t mean switching from discussing Kim Kardashian in general to Kim Kardashian’s appearance at the hot Hollywood charity gala last night.

Julian gazes out from his island down south and wonders, "how do I get America to (further) look like a bumbling idiot?"