FUCK EVERYBODY Well, well. So America is stirring. Nevermind that after two centuries of dominance by Puritan Christianity, we're all a little numb, strung out, have morning breath and sore sphincters. Nevermind that because of the small-minded, anachronistic weasles who make any change, any broadening of freedom and respect difficult, we'll all have to struggle unnecessarily to make it happen. Nevermind the utter futility and ridiculousness of people's neo-puritan attitudes. At least its happening. We are in the 50's of the Moral Rights movement. A country frozen in time feels the tickle of thaw and panics. The religious right comes schlepping out of the misty past with promises of golden returns to an idyllic and wholly fanciful good ol' days, times when June Cleaver cleaned house while the niggers on the other side of town had their heads busted in by fat anglo cops. Times when the Christian ethic was an assumed default program so subtle and ubiquitous that it wasn't even noticed. It flared like an angry white corpuscle attacking foreign invaders when anyone or anything was different enough to attract its attention. Its tools of self-maintainance are ridicule, condemnation, arrest, imprisonment. Anyone who has activated this mindless, and sometimes heartless, cultural defense system has felt its sting, but has also participated in the everyday heroism of the struggle for freedom and equal rights. THEY, the semiconsciously christianized politicos, don't want everyone to have equal rights. THEY want political and social power to be focused in their group. THEY have the unfortunate job of keeping things stable, in stasis, in status quo. THEY don't really hate others, at least not in the majority, THEY just don't want anyone pissing on THEIR wave. I want to find a way to keep THEM from making the transitions in America that are coming up painful or chaotic. I want to help the changes that are coming to be peaceful and healing. And make no mistake, transitions or changes or whatever you want to call them are coming; we're smack in the middle of a bunch of them. For example: child care, adoption, and child custody for gays & lesbians marriage for gays & lesbians military service for gays & lesbians sex between people under 18 and people over 18 sex between people both under 18 sex between mutliple persons sex between Newt & beef cattle marriage for multiple persons nudist rights voting for persons under 18 sex for a fee and so on. The list is long, and its made up of minority segments of American citizens who are in some sub-group which does not have equal rights with the rest of Americans. The current power-base in this great country of ours, heavily influenced as they are by neo-puritanism, abuses the police, justice, and prison systems to keep these minority sub-groups of Americans from having equal rights. If you are in one of these groups, you can be jailed for it. Currently the solution for most of us is simply to hide. Dont make waves. Keep your head down and your mouth shut. But that isn't going to last. It hasn't in the past and it probably won't in the future. Americans don't like being treated unequally and unfairly. And Stonewall Inns could be around the corner for any of us. Uncle Sam isn't really to blame. The founders of the American Republic were products of their time (just like you and I are), but the Constitution guaranteed rights for everyone. We just need to get past the ugly smokescreen left us by our slimy, uptight, paranoid, and utterly conservative puritan ancestors. Could the new millinium be the time? Why not! People hated Martin Luther and Martin Luther King, they hated Jesus and Gandhi, they hated Elvis and Marilyn Manson. There's always somebody that hates. It's like a disease. But what is the nature of this dis-ease? What is the hardwiring that makes some people struggle against the granting of rights and freedoms to others? Why fight equality? Maybe its fear, or loathing, or a psychotic burp. I don't know. I only know that its sad and I'm tired of it. It's an archaic way of thinking and a primitive superstition: difference does not equal conflict; it is not a threat. When gay Americans can marry each other like anybody else (i.e. hetero Americans), ethics will not faulter, nor the U.S. decline, nor the family fly apart, nor Civilization crumble. None of those things will happen on the macro level, but people who hate change and increased freedom feel that its happening on a personal, micro level. They have issues with these things and react accordingly. Get enough people reacting to their own fears and patterns, and you get the endlessly repeating and horrifically idiotic "struggle for freedom" and equal rights that characterizes the 20th century. Get a grip, boys and girls. Only landowning males of European decent would be able to vote if somebody at some point hadn't stood up for their rights. So do everyone a favor and don't get in the way of the current minority group doing the same thing. Time to self-actualize, get free, get real, get up. Time to break out of this pattern of fearful, institutionalized wall built so that every American who is somehow different has to chip away at it with bare hands and a little blood. Time to move on and grow up. Differences are not threatening. Evolutionary change is good. Rights and freedoms are for everyone whether we like it or not. Go home. Smell a flower. Live your life and stay out of everyone elses. Which brings us whizzing past the title of this ditty: Fuck Everyone. It doesn't mean "screw everyone" (how did fuck get to mean hurting someone, anyway?); it means "make love to everyone." Which is another way of saying, in neo-hip terms, like people for who they are and the value they have as humans beings and citizens, not for what label you can give them that triggers your pile of shit. Your pile will avalanche over your chateau of Reason and you will become one of the screaming dead. Hell, politicians are almost all in that catagory. Oops! I'm doing it myself!! Strike that unfair generalization and hand me the bottle of Bailey's! It's party time!! And have a damn good millennium, now, y'hear?