Beyond Good and Evil -UC Berkeley edition

What to talk about today. Mike Huchabee? Nah. I am more concerned about my future employment than anything else. I do have a service job and have held about half a dozen service jobs in my life, but now I have a degree and I want more. Its kinda funny that most of the students (at least in my department) would show interest in these human rights/equal rights/advocate for democracy type jobs, but now that we have to go to work and think of our own livelihoods the whole do-good er/UC Berkeley spirit of fairness goes out the window. My whole time at Cal I tried to point out that we, Americans at least, are capitalists and therefore should probably watch out for the anti-capitalist rhetoric that spouts out of the mouths of almost every student under the age of twenty-five. It is not that I am conservative or establishmentarian or libertarian or anything like that, I am just conscious and aware of where I am and who I am. That is to say I see no point in talking about a revolution that will take down our system and leave the country in chaos because we are no where near that scenario in real life. And even more important is the fact that if we want to have any power in this global neocapitalist environment we must have money! This is a fact. Why do you think Move-On .org and other effective organizations on the left are always looking for donations. Rhetoric alone will not topple the empire. Believe me I know for I was a rhetoric major. I cannot speak for the graduating students who feel financially secure enough to not worry about their future. Maybe these people can buy the freedom that they need to live an idealistic life. If that is the case more power to them, but recognize that we cannot all be free. I had fortunately lost a lot of my idealistic views by the time I returned to college to finish my undergrad. Now I am keeping an open mind and really trying to pick my battles so that I do not end up using all of my intelligence and energy on trying to live out an ideology that will most certainly not work out in this complicated and ever changing world. Think about that all you hippies. You are about to become yuppies and you may be surprised at how easy the transition can be. You shouldn't be shocked about your shallowness, for nobody could really expect to live up to the ideals of the average Berkeley student. Nobody can be that good.