xerxes xerxes:
“God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy sh*t we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off!” - Tyler Durden
^ That.
No matter how good TV made life look when we were kids, most of us never had a chance to begin with. We were doomed before popping out of the womb. I've worked since I was 16 (actual jobs, not small stuff like shoveling snow or cutting lawns, which I did), even worked multiple jobs at one time or another and am still no closer to breaking even let alone getting ahead.
It was all a lie from the get go.
-J.