We all need to go back to Kindergarten.
We were taught to get along, share things, not be mean, not call names…and then we all got juice and cookies before a mandatory nap.
Life was good, it made sense, we followed simple rules and got rewarded with simple pleasures.
Now life sucks…we can’t trust anyone because everyone lies, manipulates, steals, and they’re all armed with humongous blame-throwers. Everyone gets pitted against each other and no one is getting any juice or cookies.
Some observations:
We’re constantly bombarded with politicians’ shenanigans and witness the ego-driven power-grabbing hoopla that long ago replaced election campaigning. Who are these people, and why would any of them think they can hide their flawed human character from the x-ray vision of the publicity machines? And at this point in time, how can anyone continue to believe that our political party system is a viable means of electing the most appropriate people into office? To borrow a phrase,”This shit ain’t working no more,” succinctly points out my feelings regarding our political system. I, like most people, do not have an answer, but I sure as hell hope somebody comes up with at least a step in the right direction. I’ll vote yes on that, but hell no on everything else.
We’re plied with blatant and subtle lies from advertisers, whose job it apparently is, to make us purchase things that are not exactly what the implications have led us to believe. For instance, the ad that says you can pause the movie you’re watching in one room and continue it in the next. Not true, but many people are paying for it. With enough of the right equipment, you can watch something in one room, stop watching it (not pause it), and if you’re lucky and all your equipment and internet service is working properly, resume watching in a different room. Pause and stop are two different functions and people are led astray by this. I know because I worked on the support end of this lovely lie and had to constantly tell people that they had to stop watching, not pause. If they pause the movie they cannot bring it up in the other room because it shows it’s in use and not available. People were very unhappy about the lie. I don’t work there anymore.
On one news station we get a report that is in direct opposition to another news station’s report. Which one is true? The one you believe to be true…then you spend time trying to convince someone who believes the other news report that they are wrong. WTF! Personally, I prefer news that is based on scientific fact so I lean toward watching news, rather than opinions. I have some friends and relatives, however, who prefer to watch news with a smirk (as I call it). I have tried watching this news, but to me it’s like watching a bad soap opera or WWF wrestling…the actors are terrible, the story line is ridiculous and I’m incredulous that anyone thinks this is real. I am not making the mistake of trying to convince anyone that what they’re watching is pure horse shit, because I want my juice and cookies.
I’m going to take my nap now.