Exodus

For as long as I can remember and with as much about the world as I've managed to learn during my short time here. I've always had this underlying dream of "taking my toys and going home".

Packing my shit and becoming a bonified ex pat. I've worked with, and met several of them. I've always kind of idolized them, having the gall to cut ties with your place of birth and moving on. Like a modern day settler, adventurer.

It's one thing to go someplace, spend time somewhere else but it’s another to say "fuck you people I'm done" and make it home.

With that comes the current climate and underlying friction within the united states.

You have a group of people who grew up in a time where sustaining oneself was all that mattered. Where the growth and expansion of capitalism, material wealth were the most important aspects of living. With it came comfort, security, empowerment.

These people grew up being taught that if they wanted something they had to work for it and they wanted everything, conveniently.

Since then things have kind of "bottomed out" straight into the shitter.

We call these people "boomers" the "old guard" still wanting more, still furthering their own ends at any cost for the goal of self sustenance and comfort.

And that cost? The "new guard" the "snowflake" the "millennial". The children of the older generation.

They see a world around them that is dying, friends and family who shouldn't suffer because they're different, a society that has systematically failed them. The cost of greed, trying to determine what will be left, for their children after the smoke clears.

And with that you have a schism; two sets of people with different values and ethics. Different goals, different ideas on what needs to happen next.

And as far as the "voices of a generation" go as far as speaking to one another which I'm sure you've all heard throughout your own childhood:

Boomer: This isn't your house, you don't own anything here, it's mine; you'll do what I want.

Snowflake: ok boomer

Boomer: You have no work ethic, you're fucking lazy. You should have more, want more. What are you doing with your life?

Snowflake: ok boomer

Boomer: if you don't like the way things are you can always leave!

Snowflake: ok boomer

So what if we did? What if an entire generation collectively "dragged anchor and left"?

Way I see it and feel. I will always endeavor to change things for the better, I will always want this and fight for it. I can't not. Whether it's through my ideas or my actions I'll always try.

But at some point it becomes masochistic; it just hurts. So I fantasize about "saving myself" from it.

Snowflake: I think I will leave. I think I've had enough of your shit. I think if you want to live in a pile of your own refuse then it's best I leave you to it!

And so they do; an entire generation of self exiled refugees leaves this country in droves. Leave it to it's own ruin.

What would happen? What would become of the "old guard"?

- The terminology between "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holidays" no longer matters because they're sitting alone at a dining room table and drinking heavily throughout the holidays.

- Arguing over whether or not to say the word "god" during the pledge of allegiance doesn't matter either because there are no more elementary, grade, and highschools. Those children left with their parents.

- There's no longer a need for conventional radio because boomers only listen to power ballads from the 80s and the sound of their own voices so prerecorded copies of Motley crew songs alternate between recordings of the random boomer of the day yelling at their dog to get off of the furniture and stop shitting all over the carpet.

- With no one left to serve in the military borders are instead protected by wooden privacy fences, droves of old men with modified, automatic ar-15s that patrol the fence lines in gator ATVs

- With a drastically reduced population that can no longer invest in the "free market economy" the stock market crashes, then rebounds when the boomers enact a gold standard then fucking bottoms out accordingly when they figure out the infomercial gold and silver coins they invested in were fake.

- The American flag is instead replaced by a traffic cone painted with stars and stripes because their knees aren't what they used to be can't be bothered to hoist that flag anymore.

- The labor within the United States dwindles to a near 0% after ten years with no one able bodied left to actually carry out the labor. There's a mass epidemic of poverty and famine. In response the boomers enact a "universal income" policy which they quickly repeal because they don't believe in government handouts.

- After the fall of modern civilization the price of pharmaceutical drugs and health insurance still doesn't drop so boomers have to turn to Mexican drug cartels in order to get their prescription drugs.

- Donald Trump is appointed "supreme ruler" of the united states but abruptly quits immediately after finding out that the new US infrastructure cannot sustain his golf trips to Mar-A-Largo.

- Boomers then elect a new supreme ruler named, "Rufus" who passes the "get off my fuckin' porch" and the "you'll take my guns over my dead body" acts.

- Rufus gives a national press conference promising to all boomers that he's: "gonna drain the swamp" but in his senility mistakes the catch phrase for an actual swamp. Drains all of Florida's Everglades in the process killing 98% of it's natural wildlife.

- The national anthem is changed to Hank Williams jr's, "a country boy can survive"

- China, realizing at this point that the United States will never, ever be able to fullfill it's debt via deficit decides to break even and call in it's debt at an 85% reduced, consolidated rate. Boomers still cannot afford this so china puts them to work as indentured laborers handling data mining but all they get in return are pictures of cats and anti abortion memes.

- With no one left to consistently chastise and ridicule, the boomers instead turn on themselves; split into two opposing groups "dark roast" and "medium roast" then march infront of the whitehouse every saturday morning carrying banners that state: "I don't drink that "pussy shit"" and "your coffee tastes like shit". Every saturday at 9 am promptly; "supreme ruler rufus" has them driven off of the premises via watercanons and looped loud speakers that play: "I TOLD YOU TO GET OFF MY FUCKIN' PORCH" over and over again until the area is vacated.

- Jeff Bezos signs a deal with Rufus called the "Western United States Purchase" which entails all of the midwest and western coast from Colorado to California for a whopping $131 million. Rufus says in a press release statement, "we don't need that liberal shithole anyways". No one has lived there for over a decade....

- The New United States is formerly named a "Christian Nation", soon after Jesus Christ is actually reincarnated. When questioned about the "boomer utopia" during a live press release Jesus says, "they can go fuck themselves" to which Rufus replies in his own press release: "We don't need that hippie-liberal-commie son of a bitch, anyways."

- A plague of crickets then falls all over north america for 7 days and it is said that Rufus would step out on the front house lawn each evening yelling, "SHUT THE HELL UP!" into the unresponsive darkness.