the monkey manifesto: adventure

What is the deal with cutting? I don't understand why it's this nation/generation-wide epidemic. And is this a generally new thing? I don't remember anything like this when I was 14/15/16. It seems to me that this is a new "fad"... but I could be completely wrong.

Some 15-year-old girl called into LoveLine last night talking about how bad her "Cutting" is getting. Her family life is really rough, and her dad argues all the time and her mom is too domineering. And she *HATES* her mom! "Why?", she was asked. "I don't know I just do." True, both of her parents are attorneys, and attorney parents are pretty demanding... but is the way to rebel by "Cutting"?

I fucking hate the term also... it doesn't fill me with sympathy. It sounds pretentious and elitist. Like a bunch of fucking Rich Art Kids decided to get together and find out what it's like to be poor and in pain. Even the way people ask about it... "Do you Cut?" Like it's some sort of national fucking pastime and you don't even have to put a fucking Direct Object in there. It's fucking implied by the tone of the question.

Fucking kids nowadays, have absolutely no fucking comprehension of consequences. I don't need to cut my arm with a razor blade to know it will hurt. You fucking know what? Enough really painful shit is going to happen to your frail meatsack body that you'll have no control over. Why add to that misery? Or is it the "catharsis" from depression... well, You know what, I was fucking depressed last summer in fact that depression lasted from fucking June until November, and not once did I ever think:

"Wow, you know what would alleviate this depression? Slicing my fucking arm open with a razor. That'll really help. Then I'll be depressed and in extreme pain. Sounds like winning the fucking lottery."

Or is it the fucking danger? Like, oops what if I bleed out and can't stop it. What if I slip. Whoa, this is just like participating in real sports, only, you know, without all that pesky fun.

X-TREME CUTTING

For the love of fuck man, I'm a part of fucking Generation X, and I don't have any of the problems that this whiney up-and-coming generation of emo pubescents has. What the fuck happened to those kids. Are they all sad and shit because they don't have the disillusionment, empty awareness, and futile dreams that Generation X has? Man, we were bent over and collectively raped by Adulthood. We all grew up thinking that we could be whatever we wanted and you know what, we were all wrong! You don't see us running razors blades down our arms to take away the pain that is reality! Everything I'm reading now is telling me that these stupid fuckers coming up now not only have the dreams to be whatever the want but, apparently for the first time in fucking ever, they have the resources to be whatever they want. And here they are all sad and mopey and shit that they're going to succeed at life. They have to invent problems because they don't have any... Fucking get over it.