July 26, 2010
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Awesome! We're fat and ignorant!
Here's a little diddy to get things started...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYws8biwOYc
Ah yes, I could use that as my theme song. I'm impatient but life is a game of hurry up and wait. I would be less frustrated if I used God as a yardstick rather than by trying to measure up by society's standards. He is both more forgiving and unchanging. What does society want? It changes often and will contradict itself at times. If you can't be two things that sit at opposite poles and everything in between then you don't measure up.
The bitching past, I love Sundays. I have a big lunch after church and then a bigger nap.
Bitching returns, I hate Mondays. The start of the week annoys me - and it's not even Monday's fault! It's all Sunday. Well, it has more to do with the weekend screwing up my beloved routine and having to reestablish it.
Tuesday I spend preparing for Wednesday and Thursday because they're the busiest days of my week. Wednesday and Thursday are busy - meetings, people, and projects.
Friday - drug myself into staying awake to hang out with friends or pass out all day.
Saturday - do all of my homework because my friends are busy elsewhere.
That, with a little variation, has been my schedule for months. However, I like routine. I don't like surprises. Give me two weeks notice and I can put up with anything. Place the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, held by a comely lass, and tell me I've got an hour to collect both prizes and I'll look at you like you've just murdered my family. It isn't just my love of routine that makes me inflexible (when it comes to schedule) but the fact that I have very tightly packed every day. Down to the minute, I know what I'm doing and how long it will take me. Throwing in a new element causes everything to fall apart.
Shifting gears drastically, politics as usual in America is keeping my TV off and the newspaper unread. It's the same stupidity repeated endlessly. It is futile to rage against it but I find myself wanting to reach through my television and strangle some people just to get them to shut up for a moment - I can't take the lies and the spin anymore! It's too damn blatant, and if not blatant then inane, to be tolerated. They're either liars or fools and I cannot stand either. I grind my teeth and every muscle that would be involved in choking the dumb out of someone tenses.
But as my father taught me (in regards to dating), "beauty lasts only a moment, dumb is forever." All of that to say I don't think I can choke, beat, or cajole politicians and lobbyists into behaving properly. The best I can do is remove their power to fuck things up...and I don't really have the power to oppose them on my own.
Violence is probably the only way I could stand on equal ground with them and all that would lead to is them being called American heroes and me dead or in jail. It doesn't matter how scummy a politician is before dying; he's a damn hero that will be praised by his political party when he dies. His past will get whitewashed and his party will cash in his "virtues" for votes - they will ride that undead horse until they've beaten it into dust.
It's all so disgusting our nation should be known for how ghastly thin it is from bulimia. Good thing we're all fat and ignorant, yes?
Comments (6)
Hmmmm. You seem to want to bear responsibility for society. Do you have some quiet reflective time packed into your schedule?
@efarns - I rather not be responsible for society but many of my elders are neither ethical nor responsible so it falls to me to be both. I do have quiet time packed into my schedule and that is usually when I get annoyed with myself, society, or both.
I can't stand change to my routine either...not last minute change. I've got kiddos and they need a schedule to stay happy. When they fall apart, everything falls apart for me too.
Not to mention the ridiculous emotion and posturing that some TV reporters and pundits do. Just cause they're on the TV gives them the notion that everything they say is right and their opinion absolute. Number one reason why I don't watch TV for news.
@JJ_Ames - Come to the Philippines and you can contemplate a truly corrupt society.
@efarns - I know it's worse in other places but I find it depressing that what should be a bastion of freedom and justice is beginning to conform to the same-old evils. If I could put on a cape and become Justice Man I wouldn't stop with reforming America - I'd kick injustice in the balls in every country the world over.
Guess I'm just going to have to wait for Jesus to come back with his cape.