Auteur

When you're young you can't wait to get out because you think, "Fuck what everybody else says I'm gonna do things my way.  I'm gonna clear my own path and never make any compromises and be exactly who I want to be and as successful as I want to be."  Kids are kinda dumb and that makes a body a bit too optimistic.

Maybe I've just grown too cynical.

You get out of school and for most of us it's like you aren't a person anymore, just a salmon swimmin' upstream.  You have these ideas and you want to open a business, a business that's gonna make you rich and famous and you'll change the world.  Sounds great. 

Go buy a place to do business.  Go get some kind of promotion to let people know what you're doing.  Pay permits to check the building's gas, water, electricity.  Get whatever is outdated in the building updated.  Is it handicap accessible?  Keep up with the rent while trying to get your business off the ground.  Keep up with your taxes.  Get your flat fixed.  Get your oil changed. Take your significant other out for your anniversary.  Pay your bills.  Pay your insurance.  Go to the doctor since you're making yourself sick workin' so hard.  Hire some employess.  Teach them how you want things done.  Fire the ones that don't listen.  Hire some new help.  Teach them.  Get those guys some kind of insurance.  Get them off their lazy asses so you can actually have decent service.

There's plenty to do as it is and then on top of that you've got people telling you how to do it and holding you back on purpose or on accident.  You've got your parents who all of a sudden are the most qualified business people in the world and if you don't take their advice they're positive you're just gonna go bankrupt.  You've got inspectors that show up and don't like the A&M bumpersticker you've got so they give you a hard time and nit-pick stuff they might not've noticed before.  Then there's the people you hired that fell down a flight of stairs on their way to work.

No one person gets a path clear of all obstacles to do whatever they want in life.  You do your best and fair or not shit happens.  You either make it or you don't and it doesn't matter to too many people besides you.  Not too many people are invested in the average person.

The debate between Obama and Romney is on tonight and a lot of people are invested in that.  Since you know, the president's job is to do everything he promised unhindered by the interests of other groups.  There are always people pushing and pulling at you for their own agendas and this will bog the best of us down.  Obama and Romney make no difference in that whatever they promise you they are likely to fall through on.

Obama went out and promised us all kinds of things and hasn't delivered on everything in four years.  If everyone quit arguing with him maybe he could've gotten it all done or maybe he'd have made some bad choices and we'd be living in the same country as Mad Max.

Whatever Romney is promising he won't be able to deliver on all of it.  Some because he's gonna find opposition, some because he had no intention of doing it in the first place, and some because he won't have time in four years.

There is no Auteur for America.  There is no one person who has his vision of America come true.  America is a swarm of sympathetic and opposing ideas looking to shine in the spotlight.  Even a dictator finds rebels that oppose him and fight for their own ideals which in itself can ruin his dream.