I hope I don't get old I hope I don't get old OR Selling Out: the Musical

You can call it youthful idealism. Or maybe it's just a bunch of ideas that people give up on because they're afraid. I look at a lot of people older than me--smart people integrity--and the choices they make on a day to day basis aren't necessarily in line with their conscience. I know it's not that they mean to, but they've painted themselves into a corner and the only way out is through the little window labeled "status quo." Mortgage, kids, car payments, the suspicious gaze of their neighbors. All of this adds up to normalcy and submission. A lullaby. It's what keeps us inside at night with the doors locked. It's what makes our white children grow up to fear minorities. It's what makes us, the people, lose control of our society, reducing politics to nothing more than the most boring sport on TV. The Super Bowl is more important than a mid-term election.

This is the disappointment we feel when we get old. We give up on all of the grand ideas for change (however unfinished the idea and arrested our efforts) and that just ain't real fun, man.