"Are You "Living Or Just Surviving" In The Twenty- First Century? >Here is the second part to this fantastically bloody battle we the poor face every waking moment of our executively beaten lives... *Have you ever looked so forward to something with such hopes that what you have dreamed about is finally about to happen and all the hard work and blood, sweat and tears that have been molded into a figure of its own are about to be swept away and your cloud is waiting right around the corner to make your life worth living again is about to take place? And then...something happens....and now you have to wait until next month or next year....and now it's the tenth time it's happened, and you're finding yourself starting to not really give a crap anymore whether it happens or not...and then it happens, or not, but if it does, you're so wiped out that now, you can't even enjoy the benefits because all the emotions that are supposed to make you feel like you're on TOP OF THE WORLD makes you feel like, oh...well this will be over so fast now I can't even bother with it because I have to try to work overtime so my dog doesn't starve to death, but overtime is unheard of because no one will pay you time and a half anymore...they just remind you that 'You're lucky to have a job man!'...or you don't even have that.... Just today, I wrote these words about what I saw in my research, that caused me to do this...I have pulled my works from the DeviantArt T- Shirt Design Challenges that I submitted because I got involved with what I thought was an artistic design challenge, but as I realize it and have looked at the evidence over the last two design battles...what they really Are, are Popularity Contests...there are so many rules used to govern what we have to submit as art, but when some people who know more people than God stick their head into the pie, lo and behold...Winners! And I don't even really care that not one of my 20 submissions didn't even get into the top 100, because I want my artistic creativeness to be recognized for just that, 13 hours average per shirt...not scribble and pancakes or a duck....but hey, get to know everyone by making my nose brown, and that person 'CAN RULE THE WORLD WITH THE "art" they worked so hard on...and I've been around long enough to know politics...they are at every level of the infrastructure on this planet....so why am I even bothering to say anything...my work can't compete with two lips on a butt, but tell me when that changes and a fair contest happens with submissions that only the artist and the people in charge know who's random works are among everything and no one can tell who's work belongs to who...then maybe THE ARTWORK ITSELF will finally be able to stand with the Trophy...until then, try to enjoy the untruly gifted.... *Sometimes I find my dreams are going through a change to where I am looking forward to death... not for supposedly what comes after it, whether something does or doesn't...I just want that ultimate change to happen so that one way or the other, the filthy stinking rich can't get to me now! *You know, if the 5 richest people in the world got together with each other and formed a union to change the entire global structure of all that is bad on this planet and spent half of what each owns to make the world a better place for everyone, they could actually be recognized as Gods, because supposedly, the ever supreme being gave us the power of choice to use as we need to to make decisions with the outcome of those choices to better ourselves and our fellow man and neighbors! B U T. . . . That little dream will never come to pass, or anything like it...as long as $$$$$MONEY$$$$$ rules the lives of even the filthy stinking rich! Something has to be done about this, and it will take the entire human race to do it...NOW WE KNOW I'M DREAMING...BECAUSE, people can't even get along with their own FAMILIES, let alone FIX MOTHER EARTH!! *****MONEY TODAY HAS ABSOLUTELY BECOME THE MASTER ROOT OF ALL THAT IS EVIL AND UNJUST IN THIS WORLD AND THE EXECUTIVES AND CEO'S (WHO HAPPEN TO HAVE MOST OF THAT MONEY) WHO RUN OUR LIVES AND OUR GOVERNMENTS NEED TO BE EXPUNGED AND PUT TO DEATH FOR THEIR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE ON PLANET EARTH TODAY IN THE 21ST CENTURY! *I am writing these words so that they, with the help of the almighty, will open the testament of bloody bleeding war...and when the dust settles and the series of random events finishes this round...I wish all the power of good luck to the next round of the human race...they'll need it...so here is a light to guide the way, down what I can only hope for them, a true Path Of Enlightenment, so they can see through, in and around the pools and oceans of blood that came from a war of all wars...the last war mankind would ever have to endure...one small step from man, one last bloody leap from all mankind... ...as usual, just my thoughts. J.Michael Piper J.Michael Piper©2012 All Rights Reserved