World Wide New Fade

Here's the thing
about the New Fade.
It should not be
assumed to be an
insular concept,
but rather one
that embraces
the whole mess
of the world.

Sure, you've got
your obvious muck
in the American
and European arenas,
even the cultural
rumbas down south
of the US, where
perhaps we could say,
the countries themselves
have seen better
political days.

In China, you can find
the last remnants of
the old Communism fad
(unless you count Cuba
and its crazy Castros,
but I think such things
are more a reaction
to being left out
of all the good
benefits of being
the New World, but
at least they like
baseball), but I
think you could say
we're far more hard
on them than we need
to be. I mean,
it has a greater
domestic product
of babies than
celebrities can
possibly keep up
with. There is
going to be
growing pains.
Everyone has
human rights issues,
everyone, even the guys
who make those lists.

Other than that,
you may also note
the Middle East,
in case you hadn't
noticed. They've
got problems there, too,
just trying to figure out
what it means to be
a citizen of the modern world.
I mean, the New Fade
ain't kind, and it
ain't easy. There's
just going to be
some issues along
the way. Things happen,
feelings are hurt,
mistakes are made.
I'm not making light,
just attempting
to shed it.

I mean,
seriously,
the minute
everyone reacts
to the same thing
in the same way,
someone should make
sure a starfish
hasn't been fastened
to all those faces.

I have hope.
Yeah,
I'm stupid like that,
but I do think
we're figuring
this shit out.

The P.I.G. to the New Fade

History is a bitch
and it's only getting
worse, fellas.

We've literally been
on the same track
for almost the past
two thousand years,
once we got the Romans
and their inability
to see past the world
they had helped create
out of our way, and yet,
even though we're moving
at a faster pace than
ever before, we're still
worried that it's all
going to go away like
a flash, like it was never
really there. But
the bitch of it is,
as much as it seems
more than ever that we
haven't, we're learning
from our mistakes, oh yes,
figuring out the way to
get what we want and escape
what got us here, because
it's no longer needed.
We practice all the time,
discarding left and right,
long before we need to,
past enjoyments, past
improvements, just because
we can, because we feel
like it, or because
something else was shiny!

Green is the new shiny,
and green is also a funny
little thing all itself,
because we've convinced
ourselves that our bright
shiny future is impossible
because to reach it we've
made it impossible to get
there, because the world
won't support us anymore,
the world that lasted
for untold thousands of years
without us, we done wrecked
just like that! The kids
are the ones who will suffer!
Because some of us are
convinced they can do it
themselves, and we're
letting them, faster than
ever before, because they
like shiny, too, and they
like green, and they
will never be able to
tell the difference.

The New Fade is a funny thing,
too, because it's got something
we refuse to credit it with,
and that's legs. It's
running a marathon, and this
one actually counts. Without
understanding one bit,
we've all been training for it,
so no, we have not actually
been wasting our time.
It just looks like we have.