Anything… Anything… Anything for money
Would lie for you
Would die for you
Even sell my soul to the devil
-
Michael Jackson in “Money” from History: Past,
Present & Future (1995)
We prefer movies to books. We
spend weekends in malls & cinemas rather than the study. We loathe love
stories… we love violence. We love brutality. We love blood & gore. We love
vulgarity. We look forward to obscenity & seduction. We ogle at soft porn. We
whistle at abuse & filthy slang. We worship sports-stars. We ape
screen-stars. We adore rock-stars. We fantasize porn stars.
We take our date to movies &
pubs before family & friends. We seek bedroom & sex before parks &
pleasantry. And we want to blame it on the age & hormones rather than the lust
& crooked mind. We make master-plans to get her into bed rather than get
her into our family. We seek one night stands. We run from life-long
commitments. We choose separation & break-ups. We tire of nurturing relationships.
We eat junk, crap & crispies.
We drink fizz, alcohol & sweetened acids. We skip work-out and long for
good health & toned body. We like couch potato. We scorn the gym or the
pool. We prefer popping pills to shedding sweat. We deal with tension by eating
more crap, smoking more tar and drinking more poison.
We tease the teetotaller. We
glorify the drunkard. We fly on drugs, go high on grass. We feed good is
boring. We feel being bad is cool. We think loyalty is ordinary. We seek thrill
in adultery. We detest family get-togethers. We long for rave parties. We make
plans to kill time. We don’t ponder on killing boredom.
We uphold the criminal. We side
line the law-keeper. We market sleaze. We hush up scams. We debate on page 3.
We remain silent of burning headlines. We spend on gadgets. We hoard in times
of calamities. We stock black money. We stage strikes. We pelt stones. We burn
buses. We trigger explosives. We bring nations to a grinding halt.
We pour over phones. We
communicate on chat rooms. We run around like crazy. We get crazy when there is
no running around to do. We get tensed when nothing’s happening. We get tensed
when things start happening. We want others to fail, rather than our success. We
please bosses. We fire subordinates. We promote boot-lickers. We ignore the
talents. We prioritize jobs and remuneration. We de-focus our Spouse &
kids.
We screw the language. We cut
short words. We thrive on slang. We praise the foul-mouth. We support the
bad-ass. We sympathize the guilty. We traumatize the victim. We build places of
worship. We demolish huts of the poor. We kill livestock. We let terrorists go
free.
Our lists of dos & don’ts go
endless… We are the Generation Next. We are the world. We are the present. We
shape the future.
