Ordinary people drown daily in a sea awash with trivial events.
Ordinary people never question authority but authority questions them.
Ordinary people say “My country right or wrong”, during just and unjust wars.
Ordinary people tell their children , “There is no substitute for hard work..”
Ordinary people have ordinary children, who then have ordinary children,
who have ordinary children adinfinitum until we
have the bleak and mediocre world of today.
Ordinary people beat the spirit out of independent and creative children until
the children fit their middling landscape.
Ordinary people have hidebound sex except when drunk,
and then never talk about it the next day.
Ordinary people go to jobs they hate but never miss work.
Ordinary people never go to foreign movies with subtitles.
Ordinary people exert blind control through law,
not by transforming jurisprudence, but by preserving it,
and call it res judicata.
Ordinary people want to ban gay marriage so they feel adequate.
Ordinary people come down hard on the poor by blaming the victim.
Ordinary people do not understand the seperation of church and state and
want the ten commandments displayed on government buildings.
Ordinary people make up the vast majority of dull and boring professors
who demand academic freedom for themselves but not for their students.
Ordinary people who are elementary school teachers educate children
to value external rewards by giving out stars and smiley faces
instead of teaching the internal excitement of learning.
Ordinary people exert control at home by battering their spouse.
Ordinary people value how much they consume in a time of diminishing
resources rather than how much they produce.
Ordinary people often have fancy cars to hide the fact they are ordinary.
Ordinary people conform to meaningless social norms.
Ordinary people avoid risk taking.
Ordinary people are racists and sexists so they can blame others
instead of confronting their own inadequacies.
Ordinary people are intolerant of Muslims today just like their grandfathers
were in favor of the internment of native born Japanese during World War 11.
Ordinary people yearn for approval from others
rather than being satisfied with themselves.
Ordinary people write poems like this.