The Makings of

So I lied a little when I said tomorrow.

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When asked if medicine held the answers to acheiving goals of reform in Cuba, Che's original response was that the revolution could be done through his career path, but it couldn't be done in the suburbs. You can't practice medicine in the rich part of town and go down to the slums once a month. That just doesn't work, according to Guevara. It has to be a lifetime commitment.

I'm about to turn down yet another position because I can't get out of Gaithersburg alive. Between my family and my need to eat food and drink water, I'll be unable to move from here for a significant amount of time. My debt is now bordering on the criminal, my work has completely crossed over that line, and now I'm going to have to start doing things that I really don't like to get back into just to survive.

And I'm not alone in this.

There's a whole sector of society that is now populated with us, the victorious college educated underclass. We're all saddled with enormous debt, intelligent through independant and collegiate knowledge, and underemployed through no fault of our own. I may be an exception as an expelled undergrad, but I know I'm not the only person on Blogger who isn't currently serving the corporate master because they could either do that and eat healthy food or eat fast food and live in a box.

I'm not going to be the dude who cries out "Let's change this" and goes back to slanging rock, but I will be the dude who says that making a difference shouldn't cost you your ability to shit in a comfortable place. It shouldn't mean that your relatives can take turns beating the piss out of you with their patented "We're From The Golden Age of Protest" stick and at the same time quietly profess that the way that they got their job had a little something to do with the way that they looked or the fact that someone they knew from waybackwhen had a job there and they got in on the sly.... And it DEFINITELY shouldn't mean that you aren't successful in the eyes of society.

I'll probably touch more upon this later when I talk about poverty later on ( this time I won't promise tomorrow...)