War?

What do we know about war? Does it only have to do with guns and explosions? Is it only seen in foreign lands?

The answer to these three questions is that we don't know war so we can't answer the other two. In my perspective, war is a never ending enigma that will always exist as long as we exist. It is the effects of our negative connotations that we have what we call war. The truth about war is that our very governments do not fight for freedom or glory, they fight for wealth and other valuable resources. In a pamphlet that I found in a System of a Down album, before the lyrics, are notes from the band saying that "We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism, our excuses for world domination always change." The only time freedom is attained is through death.

American Dream Denial

"There is no flag that is large enough
to hide the shame of a man in cuffs
you switched your signs then you closed the blinds
you changed the channels and you changed our minds
your remainder is an unjustifiable egotistical power struggle
at the expense of the american dream
of the american dream
of the american.."


Above was an excerpt of the song American Dream Denial by System of a Down.
The truth about the American dream is that there is no dream. It is just an achievement one succeeded and now more and more people want the same. My parents immigrated to the U.S. 18 years ago in search of the American dream. They, however, didn't find it. Instead, they found each other and decided to live together.
You see, the "American Dream" is a mere dilemma. You have two possibilities of an outcome. Depending on what you do, it gets you to a certain point. The consequences of which option you choose will eventually predict what you will do or have in the future. For example, you drive your car until you get into a fork in the road. You are trying to get back home, but you don't remember your way back. You decide to take the road on the left, you've been driving for hours, and you're starting to suspect that you should have taken the other road. Now lets say that you take the road on the right. It too feels like if you've been driving for hours. Eventually though, the road on the right takes you back to civilization.
In a way, the idea of the "American Dream" is only acheived through probability not ambition. It depends on which option you take that take you to a certain road, only to find more forks in the road.