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Sheryllin White's Essay - Overload: system shutdown!   (2005)

OVERLOAD!  System Shutdown!

What’s on the mind of today’s American youth?

The minds of today’s American youth are on overload with too many negative influences, stimulants, distractions, and lies being told everywhere.  Television, video games, cell phones, drugs and the Internet distract them from thinking, discerning, being detail oriented, knowing and understanding.  The conflicts between the generations religiously, socially, morally, ethically and politically are confusing.  Abuse is rising and the effects are deafening and numbing.  Fast food and quick fixes out appeal patience, good health and mind growth.  We are what we ingest.  Even eating numbs the pain.  Opiates and hallucinogenic drugs silence the mental overload and death by suicide ends it.  Social deviancy, sexual prowess, controlling others and self-destruction seem to win against being labeled a nerd.  Victimization keeps them in an unconscious juvenile state and pessimistic because of the pain that immobilizes them.  Planning and pursuing a future are too far off to be considered.

Outcast because physically their features are asymmetrical or socially unacceptable to what appears in the media is a flagrant disregard for one's true self.  Competition to be accepted creates body alterations, sexual proficiency, experimentation, loss of one's soul, surrendering to others’ expectations, masterminds in dishonesty and disrespect, anger and hatred and/or violent youth that kill.  Sleep deprivation is a symptom of mind overload.  Malnutrition is a symptom of competition.  Obesity is self-torture, to be eliminated totally from the competition and acceptance by others.  Fears rule and govern them into compromising at any cost.  Liars exist as chameleons complementing all that they mimic and emulate.  Cheaters who lie appear to excel and, especially, if their external appearance resembles the media’s perfection.  Popularity requires deception, conformity, dishonesty and acceptance by any means necessary.

Many of today’s American youth are oblivious to their own internal voice or conscience because there are others’ voices speaking within their mind including their peers, religious leaders, the media, new immigrants, parents, victimizers, teachers, family members and associates.

Yet, there are exceptions.  Some youth in America are educated well, independent thinkers, loved for their honesty and respect, avoid drugs and promiscuity and are goal oriented, healthy and productive.  They live fearless of being manipulated or controlled by others and their soul is pursuing their passion to change themselves and the world by creating world peace.  Some youth are capitalistic and selfish while others show up to be present for other people as involved human beings and/or the protection of animals and the environment.

The microcosm of today’s American youth cover every facet of the societal issues as their personal mind conflicts:  some have been denied an adequate education to attend universities or any aspect of their desires because they cannot read or write at a socially productive level of intellect; some have been labeled behaviorally deviant, over medicated and their pains, inadequacies and fears are drugged into a state of passivity; and, some are plagued with diseases that are deadly and live aware, unaware or in denial.  There are youth who live taking irrational chances and feeling indestructible as gun totters, drug peddlers and with licenses who drink and drive recklessly.  There are gangs of fraternities, sororities and neighborhood youth wreaking havoc on others as an initiation and rite of passage.  Religious fanatics are shouting loudly, passing judgment, seeking popularity and many are the examples of the hypocrisy of American Christian superiority.  Devil worshipers, human and animal sacrifices, self-mutilation and deprivation are seen in the gothic youth.

The minds of American youth are a ball of confusion and their lives are just an illusion within the matrix of life.

For many youth, fat soluble drugs and the cavities that they create in the brain keep them in a constant altered unconsciously unaware state of mind and unable to feel, think, imagine, create and to change themselves or the world.  The mind altering drugs introduced in the Northeastern states in the 1800s to white laborers to increase productivity; the revolution of opiates and hallucinogenic drugs; the introduction of stimulants to the military to breed people who fight wars unconsciously, productively and desensitized; and, the importation of drugs into minority communities, the poor and college campuses in the 1960s have now been transferred into the DNA of today’s youth creating a thirst and dependency on stimulants and genetic exposure to the effects of these drugs.

What is going on in the mind for so very many youth are all the effects of the drugs that have desensitized, numbed and created mental diseases of schizophrenia, paranoia, obsessive compulsive disorders, attention deficit disorders, autism, sexual addiction, and addictive self-destructive behaviors.  The minds of American youth are not easy to decipher because of the internal, external and spiritual experiences, values, morals, ethics and beliefs of today’s society.  Yet, there is another common thread:  the view of White American Superiority.

Within many American youth there is an arrogance of superiority over all others throughout the world and a belief of great entitlement to the world’s fringe benefits.  There are white supremacists that expound upon white power and the annihilation of the undesirables:  Asians, Latinos, Jews, African Americans and all others that are not white Anglo Saxon Protestants.  But, there are some immigrants in America that view themselves as white including Asians, Latinos, Jews and white Africans in America and are so confused that they profess and confess the same views as white supremacist because they are historically, politically and socially ignorant.  Some youth have joined skinhead groups and the world change that they desire is the annihilation of the undesirables.  Yet, they do not realize that this includes them.  Far too often, there are conflicts between Latinos and African American students because some Latinos claim white superiority over the African Americans, however, the thread of African culture, music and blood runs through the veins of most Latinos.

Many American youth support wars to change the world into a place of white superiority and to label all of the undesirables as terrorist.  So, as many Africans die from AIDS many American youth feel nothing but okay more wealth for Americans and it kills off any potential terrorists.  For as much aid that went to the Tsunami victims, then to hear some youth state that those were Muslim people so they are reaping what they sewed on 911.  Yet, did not Muslim youth too call themselves white people in America?

What is the difference between white supremacy and being white?  Both seem to have similar views of white superiority and patriotism to annihilate the undesirables in war.  Then, too, there are African American youth that engage in body altering operations to appear whiter and through their actions expound on the same principals of white superiority as being American superiority and Christian superiority.

Many Christian doctrines and ideologies have been used historically to enslave and kill in America and used to support the belief of stealing the land of the indigenous people of the Americas and many of the people of Africa.  It is hard to fathom that Christianity is still being used to subjugate cultures, beliefs and the religions of others.  Some white youth in America have joined many of those undesirable groups to oppose the perspective of white American superiority over the world and the Christian doctrine and ideology that is not in the context of the Bible, however, used to label others as undesirables.

Hitler labeled the Jews as the undesirables and other ethnic groups and began to annihilate them.  Americans labeled the African captives as slaves, subhuman and beat, raped and killed them at their leisure in large amounts.  During a white superiority war, Americans incarcerated Japanese in America into concentration camps.  Americans too stole land from, raped and killed its Indigenous people maliciously historically.  The youth of today understand this but they are in conflict because if they forgive then they believe that means to forget.  Yet, if they forget then history can repeat itself.

So many youth have forgiven and chosen to forget because of the pain or numbed themselves with drugs.  Other youth are pacified by instructors, religious leaders, their peers and associates to not ask questions and stripped of their belief that they have the power to make world peace changes.

The minds of the American youth today seem to feel powerless and not angered or interested enough to act passionately to change the world into a place that encourages the differences within all of us and our uniqueness.  Another common thread is compliancy with the norm and what is socially acceptable and being unconscious inactive participants of life.

Wake up American youth of today it is time to be an active, thinking, conscious, knowing, educated, understanding, empowered independent participant of your own life and an integral aspect in the creating of a harmonious world that respects the differences within all of us and opposes the creating of a world of drones and clones who all act, look and think the very same.

White Christian superiority is not the answer.  World harmony is the solution!

Reboot!

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