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shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one. But I'll take a shot. Say
I'm working at the NSA, and somebody puts a code on my desk, somethin' no
one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm
real happy with myself, cus' I did my job well. But maybe that code was the
location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East and once they
have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels are hiding...
Fifteen hundred people that I never met, never had no problem with get killed.
Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, Send in the marines to secure the area"
cus' they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot.
Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, cus' they were pullin'
a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there takin'
shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant he used to work
at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put
the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, cus' he'll work for fifteen cents
a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was
over there in the first place was so that we could install a government that
would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the
little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little
ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon.
They're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, maybe even
took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis
and fu*kin' play slalom with the icebergs, it ain't too long 'til he hits
one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So
now my buddy's out of work. He can't afford to drive, so he's walking to
the fu*kin' job interviews, which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is
givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin' cus' every time
he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin'
is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin'
out for somethin' better. I figure fu*k it, while I'm at it why not just
shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices,
bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National
Guard? I could be elected President.
---good
will hunting
(Matt
Damon and Ben Affleck are 24 and 26, respectively) |
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