Easy Rider

The story to me, despite how well it was told, was rather a bummer. Perhaps it's because of how different the cinematography is compared to a happy story. If it were like "Grease" or "Wild Hogs," it wouldn't be the same.

While I don't ride motorcycles, I do relate to the main characters; in my corner of America, I look for America. In our world today, it gets harder and harder to express ourselves fully. We have events like 9/11, San Bernardino, and Orlando. We have criticisms like when football players refuse to stand during the National Anthem. People get catcalls or a lead salad for what they believe in.

And that's ironic. Today, we are mostly accepting other people's lifestyles: gay/lesbian couples, transgender, religion. Yet some people aren't accepting to change. Those people are willing to do anything to prevent change, even if it means blowing them off their bikes. They do this because they feel threatened. Threatened by change and freedom. How can you be free if you don't accept freedom?

It's a never ending cycle to hating change and freedom from the norm. We, the People, aren't as violent as a collective whole as we were fifty years ago, but we instead of eliminating people we are pushing them out of the country. We are closing people, like the Muslims and the Latinos, out of freedom. Individually, some people will eliminate them if they wanted to just to keep their "world" safe and clean from freedom and change.