Well I can hear the drums, voodoo all night long

I used to get really annoyed by my Ex because he seemed to be this person who would jump on the bandwagon of any cause going but never really DO anything productive about the cause beyond debating attending rallies or protests or as I like to call them "a big excuse to beat drums and smoke weed in public". As it turns out, he never even ended up doing that, which is good because I would have mocked him mercilessly being that you can easily smoke weed at home, you can't convincingly beat drums in public without some dreads (sarcasm here), and as far as I can tell, the only thing attending those sorts of protests does is brand you as a total fucking jerk-off who probably just wants to avoid another day of work and who will also probably stop off for a fucking Big Mac or some other piece of dead animal on a bun but shh in secret because protesters are also vegetarians or something. You all don't know shit about protest, go to some other country and stand for something at the risk of death, without puffing a doob first. Oh, and leave the goddamned bongo at home, Rainbow Brite.

I think those with a genuine social conscious actually do something about it that doesn't neccessarily mean you just have fun getting high, picking out the perfect outfit, dying your hair that bestest shade of red or blue and pretending you *care. Protesting isn't about partying like it's 1969, it's about effecting change.

*for example, the goofs in the pic. Just what the fuck are they protesting? The right to logical thought? Don't they just look super-engaged? Yeah, in their own self-serving "look, I have a conscious and it's, like, social" sort of way. But they might get the most awsomest tans or maybe hook up with some wicked ass chronic from B.C. dude. They might even get to say on T.V. "the government is really bad, and like we are all like one consciousness trying to change the things the government wants to force us all to do. It's like really important to be an individual and stand up for this issue. Yes, my drum like totally represents the repressed and how they get beaten down like every single day...that's totally why we broke that small shopkeeper's window...because I have no clue what I'm talking about but I've heard it all said in a song somewhere..." Yeah... go kick that hacky sack.