The Curse of Adam

Recently all these things have come to light

This new process of learning called common core has got everybody in a fight

Like, we were so used to the old way of learning

That any threat to the way things were just is unacceptable

We always say "things ain't like they used to be 

In my day we had it so great"

Yet day in day out we work to give our kids a better life than what we had

Does nobody see the contradiction or the twist in the logic

Other than me?

I mean, the way that my mind works is

I heard both sides of this current hot topic

and I asked myself

What is the big deal?

Not because I don't care, or because I'm in agreement

I just like to question everything

And find out the answers

And then make a determination

So what if my children learn something in a different way than I did?

As long as they know Truth

Can't no standards of secular education twist that

They can do what it takes to better their education

If it makes them viable for college, or a global job market

Like it says, then whether or not

I can do the math as good as them

Isn't really that much of an issue

I can learn it if they can too

But I can also argue for the other side

I'm American, I'm good at arguing

But I have argued myself until I was blue in the face against it

And aint' nothing changed

Not only that but like

People got so twisted over public education

They don't want teachers to rule our children

But they want them to be responsible for a large part of the raising process

To me it's kind of like a double standard

I mean something has got to give

And I sat and pondered
We become educated so that we can have a job
We work at that job in order to pay for our education
Supposedly we better ourselves in the process
But I have yet to see any proof of this
Spend most of our lives in some type of system
Education then work then retirement stipends...

Like, Americans in general are a slave to mass consumption

We work just to assume loans and credit

And become slaves to our debt

My 'dream house' is still literally a dream

Because until I can pay the bank off

It don't belong to me

I sometimes wonder

What it would be like

to disappear

Leave this madness called life and run away to the woods

or the mountains

Even if I do my best to live a holy life

The money I spend on everyday things goes to one side or the other in this fight

Starbucks funnels money to those who are anti-traditional marriage

A well known fact but Christians be buying this overpriced coffee by the gallon

It don't even taste that good

But I haven't had Starbucks in a minute

Gas is expensive

Big corporations have faulty and immoral business practices

Some of them even put money into the hands of those connected with terrorists

And this is my legacy, my contribution as well

Because I choose to buy

Whatever they sell

But this culture is so prevalent you really can't run from it

We just have to realize our impact on one another

is so inextricably connected.

Due to the rise in the usage of social media outlets

All of a sudden everyone is an expert in something

But nobody cares to dig deeper than the surface

We just want instant gratification

See! This guy agrees with me, I'ma retweet him

So all my followers can know and see that I am validated

Wikipedia and Google; Internet the information Superhighway 

It's a shame that we are fine with just settling for the rhetoric

It's sad when we can't think deeper than how something will affect us on a micro scale.

We are willfully ignorant

Choose a side because from where we stand

It looks like there's a difference

Politicians be good at feeding off our emotions

On a grander scale

We all just need salvation

From this beast that we have created

From others,

Ourselves

Our way of thinking.

Realize that there is someone higher 

a purpose much deeper

Than Me.