What’s Wrong With America: Part 2- Bruce Springsteen

I hate Bruce Springsteen. I hate anyone who tries to make a political message through their lyrics, especially when they are the ignorant ramblings of a hippie douche bag.  I know that this point has been made numerous times in the past, but the “Boss’s” boner last week, when he introduced himself to the loyal fans of Ohio, when he was actually in Michigan, reminded me of how god dam stupid he is.  And what am I talking about?  “War” of course.  We all know how it goes:

“War!  What is it good for?  Absolutely nothing!”

I’m not going to give you a list of every good war, just the biggest ones as they relate to us as Americans:

• The Revolutioanry War, which liberate use from England and ensured us of decent teeth
• The Civil War- Saw the end of slavery and the beginning of a cohesive USA
• WWII-  Saw teh defeat of Nazis and Hitler and other silly stuff like that

Whenever I hear Springsteen on the radio, I can’t help but to wonder what drugs he is taking.  Or what brain damage he suffered as a child.  Of course not all wars are just.  Or good.  Or necessary.  But many wars are just and good and necessary to protect the innocent people of the world, and for someone to ever utter the words “what is it good for”, well, it makes me want to punch them.  And send them to a concentration camp to get gassed.

When evil men arise, war is needed to put them down.  And anyone who ever questions the necessity of war needs to be strapped to a chair with his eye-lids propped open with tooth picks and forced to watch scenes of slaves being whipped and beaten and European Jews being shepparded to their deaths.

I’m ashamed to share statehood with the “Boss”.  Maybe we should ship him off to England where he can become a British citizen, which is obviously what he wants.

This man is treated like a god by millions, yet he can’t even figure out what state he is on before performing.  And we wonder why this country is in such bad shape- people look to music artists to decide what to think because they can’t think for themselves.  As long as an idea, a philosophy, is wrapped in pretty words and set to a catchy tune, the masses will eat it up.  And be thankful that someone else is telling them what to believe.

I used to love Pearl Jam.  Loved them.  Favorite band.  But when Eddie Vedder, laying claim to his own little Messiah Complex, starts spouting off against President Bush because, for some reason, he thinks that he, a lowly musician, knows more about world politics than the President, I stopped listening to PJ.  It pained me.  Like breaking up with a girlfriend after seven strong years.  But my own sense of morality told me that if I wanted to be true to myself, I had to boycott the band that had given me so much pleasure through high school and college.  And I did.  Because ignorance and self-righteousness makes me sick.

Next time I miss work, I’m to going to say I was out with a case of the Bruce Springsteens.

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