Crazy Like America: The Naked Guy in the BART Station

I'm not even gonna post the link of the naked guy going crazy in the BART station however I'm sure you can find it pretty easily in your daily feed. But, I do want to say this: this insane man is a metaphor for AMERICA.

"WTF," is right.

This dude lost his mind (and so have we). 

People have been saying that he is clearly on PCP or something extremely mind altering. In the video there's some average lookin' people that try to step in but they can only muster a very average attempt at best to intervene. Most people of course simply just keep on walkin' by like everything is normal but it obviously is not.

The naked man may not only be on a PCP sort of substance, which seemingly gives average people above average bursts of strength, but he also happens to be extremely athletic and skilled in some sort of acrobatics or maybe even martial arts? Judging from his mind-state, his skill set, and his nakedness, I think the comments from people saying they definitely would have kicked his ass are funny and also typical from your average quarterbacks on the couch. In my experience most people do not have an "S" on their chest.

But, as crazy as this dude may seem, how insane are we?

I think this guy really is a metaphor for AMERICA.

We have lost our minds.

And with this mental breakdown we have completely lost our way forward.

We support "Patriot Acts" in the name of freedom which leads to our own Government spying on everything that we do, from reading all of our emails to tapping our phone records, to who knows what other privacies they are in violation of?

We have an omni-corrupted two-party system that is bribed daily by multi-national corporations that make billions off of all of us from this bribery, simultaneously sending jobs overseas, and they often don't even have to pay taxes.

We have an economy and a Government that is literally controlled by massive banks that the politicians have thus designated as "too big to fail," even though upon their imminent failure, WE THE PEOPLE, are told that we have to pay to bail them out because our entire world will collapse if we do not. This impending doom of course is the direct result of our Government not properly regulating the banks in the first place. That is, the same banks that control all of our politicians policies. Make sense?

We also have the LARGEST PRISON POPULATION of any industrialized nation in the world. The majority of these prisoners have been incarcerated for non-violent drug related offenses.

The majority of these men and women in prison of course are brown and black. The result of a corrupted "justice system" that arrests and convicts darker skinned American's (usually from areas with high rates of poverty and violence) at a much higher rate for the same crimes as whites. Of course poor whites are also a victims of this blind system.

But alcohol, cigarettes, and "prescription" drugs are all good and legal.

We also live in a nation where it is now normal if a man walks into a school or a movie theater or a mall and opens fire with semi-automatic riffles and maims and kills large numbers of innocent people. We completely accept this as something we cannot control and place total blame on "crazy people" or "criminals" and do not honestly attempt to adjust policies on gun control or mental health. It now just "is what it is" in America.

Beyond the mass shootings though we have much bigger daily problems with violence. We literally have Americans that live in war zones. From Oakland to Los Angeles to Chicago to Detroit to New York and beyond. People are killed every single day by guns simply because of the neighborhood that they reside. If Tornado alley in Oklahoma is dangerous, try living in any number of inner cities in America for a day. Of course, the devastation from mother earth is quickly met with empathy, and millions of dollars in donations and federal assistance. The violence and the poverty in the ghetto though is mostly unseen and unspoken.

In fact when everyone was fixated on the chase for the two "Boston bombers," over that same 24 hour period, more than a dozen people were shot in several different incidents in south Chicago alone (dozens more nation wide). Of course Barack Obama did not have a press conference for them and the Chicago police even tweeted about sending extra officers to help out in Boston that very same day. This was because "we had been attacked by terrorists" and we were supposedly coming together as a nation, however, meanwhile the body count in the south side of Chicago looked a lot more like Afghanistan than anywhere else in the country.

So, yeah, this dude went crazy in the BART station.

But this nation has gone nuts, too. Totally fuckin' insane nuts, like a naked kung-fu acrobat on PCP kinda crazy. Except this crazy nut with no clothes that I'm talking about is the Emperor who controls world markets, systems of justice, nuclear options, and apparently your email and phone records. And what are we doing to stop it? What are we doing to change it? What can we do to change it? It's a tough question.

Ask yourself this (honestly), if you were in the BART station that day would you have tried to stop this crazy naked guy from assaulting people? Personally, I'm not sure. Maybe I would've, maybe I wouldn't. But, I do know that if others would have joined together to lend a hand I would have been more apt to join in and do something about it as well. If others were paying attention enough and cared enough and were brave enough to help, I know I would have been also. Otherwise we just keep on walkin' by like nuthins happening.

What's that one definition for insanity?

"Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."