By SheelaR

The newest outrage, aside from Nike and Colin Kaepernick (I’ll write about that later), is outrage over stolen memes/clichés. I’m unbothered. With all the real turmoil in America and the entire world, this is what bothers you? What about babies in cages, a mentally unstable President, Flint, racism, and Puerto Rico? Can we please obsess over something of critical importance to humanity?

Sometimes we need something light to balance the heavy of life, but this is becoming a scourge on human consciousness. All this misplaced outrage is taking on a level of importance that it doesn’t deserve. Every thought ever verbalized gets regurgitated. People have been sharing and taking credit for the spoken and written word since the beginning of time (slight exaggeration here), and social media has simply added to how fast are far information is disseminated.

Get back on track, America! Let’s not ride this dead pony for too long. No one stole War and Peace – lighten up. We have real problems with no real solutions insight. Have your moment and move on to something bigger than your self-righteous indignation over memes/clichés. Plastic isn’t the only thing that gets recycled and reused.

With all that being said, I’d like to say this… “Imitation is the best form of flattery.” And yes, someone else said that first.