Greetings good citizen, key to 'molding' the future is the power of persuasion. This unending 'assault' on your critical reasoning abilities is relentless; you are constantly being told things are better than the evidence you gather with your own senses tells you.
Just to give an example, today the NY Times reported the economy did better than previously reported...by .8%
Left to your imagination is what the 'margin of error' is when measuring that data and we all KNOW the contents of the basket they use to measure is constantly being juggled so the results are, by necessity, 'dubious at best'.
If we roll back to our original premise; 'the power of persuasion', we'd see the key factor here is planting the idea that the economy is 'getting better', even if the improvement isn't 'readily discernable'.
So it goes, you see black and the media tells you it's white...or some degree of gray that is too difficult to nail down precisely.
You see wage slavery and the media tells you you're lucky to have a job at all [with or without benefits, the company could be doing it for less in China!]
Can't live on what you're paid? Naturally it's your inability to manage money! Couldn't be your expense profile! You don't buy a single thing you don't absolutely need and you still can't make ends meet.
Yet come review time you're told competition is too rigid and they can only afford to give you 2 percent [again, you're told to be happy, there are people who aren't getting anything! (Missing detail: the new hires don't generally get raises.)
Beginning to see how the deck is stacked against you? Talk about 'death by a thousand cuts' everywhere you look you're being fed lies by the fist-full!
Is it any wonder the average HUMAN is frustrated and ready to pop?
How sad is it the only reason we don't kill one another on sight is because you've taught yourself to look out for the lies and you've also learned not to sweat the bills, what are they gonna do?
You've learned to COPE but you can't find a way OUT! You're inner Hippy wants to pool what little money you can get your hands on, chip in with some friends and buy a farm.
Live off the land, be your own man...except you don't know you the first thing about farming. You have a fuzzy idea that it's a lot of hard work and that it can be dangerous sometimes.
But you grow your own food and that has to be better than the monotony of stuffing bags for welfare moms at Mega-Mart.
Enter the Taxman. Now you have to make farming 'pay' because the town will take your farm from you if you can't pay your taxes, nevermind your vet bills.
Which leaves you with Plan B, the Lottery. "Win" enough money and you don't have to do peckerhead work anymore! You can also banish the idea of legally changing your middle name to 'No'...
You realize [hell, you even ACCEPT] that there isn't enough to go around. It's just your own 'rotten luck' [which most of us are still thankful for considering how much WORSE things COULD BE.] Still, it's hard to see those Mercedes and Corvettes cruising by while you're driving an econo-box you KNOW you paid too much for.
I mean WTF?
So we return to the 'web of lies'. If you can't win the lottery you have to at least figure out how to get on the 'right side' of the web of lies.
But, [and you're probably spot on] you get that sneaking suspicion that people on the other side of that particular divide were BORN THERE!
Getting frustrated yet? You should be.
You know what the problem is and you also know you aren't alone in your realization. Most people KNOW it's a management problem but nobody knows how to deal with it!
But you know that's not true either. You begin to suspect 'the founders' might have been too clever by half! If you want to change the deal they left YOU with, you have to do what THEY DID!
You KNOW it would never be as easy as getting change on the ballot, the self-interested zealously guard what you can and can't vote for.
Once again this disintegrates into an exercise in what you already know...although I just had an episode of 'if it had teeth you'd be dead now' play out with my daughter when I offered to point to the object she refused saying 'she knew'.
Well, turns out she didn't.
And you're just about at the end of your tether, aren't you? So it's best not to 'assume' what you do and don't know.
Do you see an exit [short of hitching a ride with E.T.]? Nope, the bag that formerly had 'secluded' areas is now pitch black. You CAN go 'off the grid' but you will eventually find yourself charged with 'criminal trespass' and a posse hunting for your sorry backside. [Again with the 'rumor has it'...in the Amazon, the posse tracking you down plans on eating you when they catch you. Call me a pessimist but I'm not seeing any 'daylight' in that direction either.]
Have I 'persuaded you' that there is only one acceptable 'exit strategy?' Probably not but soon it won't matter if you think its a good idea or not, you won't be given a choice...aside from the usual on, the one you get every day...Join or die.
Sound familiar?
Just because nobody uses that exact phrase doesn't mean those aren't your ONLY choices.
Because the term you're more familiar with is 'you'll do it and like it!'
Does it sound like a choice now? No? Well, the alternative is imprisonment and everything that implies once your identity is ripped away from you.
Better to die than to be ground down into unrecognizable pieces in a place that you can't get out of...
Now we return to 'The Legendary' once again. [For those of you suffering from short attention span, the full phrase is Man's legendary inhumanity to man.]
We inflict untold pain upon others solely because we can, knowing full well that we'd kill anyone who did the same thing to someone we loved...whether they were wearing a badge or not.
Using that benchmark, we are an insane race...because we refuse to put a stop to the madness. Makes you wonder how we live with ourselves for being relieved it wasn't us on the receiving end, eh?
You know this is only the tip of the iceberg, I could go on and on but there really isn't any point.
Why bring this up?
So you have something concrete to ponder the next time you're 'reminded' by some chiseler how 'well-off' you are.
I want to add a little sidebar here because there is a part of my 'design' I added specifically to combat 'the Legendary', I call it the 'personal responsibility' factor that will manifest itself in the return of dueling.
Today's wealthy have the power to have you sent to prison and broken if you 'displease' them and there isn't anything you can do about it. Worse, anyone with a badge can make your life a living hell and again, YOU are powerless (because the protection of the courts is reserved for those who can pay for that protection...
Under my design, called A Simple Plan, you would be able to, confront those who you have a greivance with, mano-a-mano. They can refuse to fight you but there are 'safeguards' built in to prevent the 'impromptu' battles that often stem from differences of opinion and the challenged can turn 'defense' into a decided advantage because the challenged gets choice of weapons.
FIRST thing to consider regarding the return of this barbaric custom is the 'knuckle-heads' that wear their hearts on their sleeves will be eliminated fairly early on. Despite it's popularity, actual duels were rare...partly because back then duels were 'to the death'. Under the new scheme, either side can petition the overseers for a 'non-lethal' contest.
This may embolden some but let me remind you, you can still be killed so consider just how badly you want to 'pay back' a foe before you go off half-cocked and challenge them. Probably better to make them challenge YOU!
You have to be wary when someone selects Tasers as their 'non-lethal' weapon of choice.
And yes Virginia, you choice of weapons will be limited...Bazooka's at ten paces is a non-starter, same goes for Howitzers!
Um, part of the protective portion [the part where the challenged has the choice of weapons, giving them the option of choosing one they are 'good' with like quarter staffs or halberds...or toothpicks if you want to insure non-lethality.]
If it is know you are an expert swordsman, it is less likely you will be challenged to a duel because most people these days aren't very good with a blade.
While I don't expect most people will pursue the martial arts to protect themselves from being singled out for a duel, It would go a long way towards a more civil society, you'd actually go out of your way to be 'polite' because insulting somebody is no longer a rigid middle finger and a grunting 'if you don't like it, sue me!'
Now you're gonna pay, one way or the other!
Yeah, personal responsibility, the world needs more of it!
while there will be a lot of ways to goad an opponent into challenging YOU, you have to be careful that you don't get yourself exiled in the process!
Go after somebody's kid and you're playing with more than fire! You WILL find yourself fighting for your life with a cast of equally as desperate characters in a place with next to NO resources.
One of the other things you'll work hard to protect is your reputation. What others think of you will be of vital importance to the kind of life you will build for yourself. Especially if the you ever fall under suspicion.
One thing you can't hide from it's your co-workers. If you're lazy, they know it. If you're a liar, they know it...if you're hard-working and helpful, they know it.
So you will not go off making any needless enemies by making anyone else's life more difficult, the quickest route to chalking up an impressive enemies list!
Why will you be the most helpful, cooperative, funny and kind work-mate anyone could hope for? Because those 'traits' will help you rise to the top of your field and could one day lead you to the leadership of our species!
Wanna make America (and the rest of the world) GREAT for EVERYBODY!
Get on board the bandwagon and support A Simple Plan!
In the infamous words of Arnold, 'follow me if you want to live!
Thank you for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Just to give an example, today the NY Times reported the economy did better than previously reported...by .8%
Left to your imagination is what the 'margin of error' is when measuring that data and we all KNOW the contents of the basket they use to measure is constantly being juggled so the results are, by necessity, 'dubious at best'.
If we roll back to our original premise; 'the power of persuasion', we'd see the key factor here is planting the idea that the economy is 'getting better', even if the improvement isn't 'readily discernable'.
So it goes, you see black and the media tells you it's white...or some degree of gray that is too difficult to nail down precisely.
You see wage slavery and the media tells you you're lucky to have a job at all [with or without benefits, the company could be doing it for less in China!]
Can't live on what you're paid? Naturally it's your inability to manage money! Couldn't be your expense profile! You don't buy a single thing you don't absolutely need and you still can't make ends meet.
Yet come review time you're told competition is too rigid and they can only afford to give you 2 percent [again, you're told to be happy, there are people who aren't getting anything! (Missing detail: the new hires don't generally get raises.)
Beginning to see how the deck is stacked against you? Talk about 'death by a thousand cuts' everywhere you look you're being fed lies by the fist-full!
Is it any wonder the average HUMAN is frustrated and ready to pop?
How sad is it the only reason we don't kill one another on sight is because you've taught yourself to look out for the lies and you've also learned not to sweat the bills, what are they gonna do?
You've learned to COPE but you can't find a way OUT! You're inner Hippy wants to pool what little money you can get your hands on, chip in with some friends and buy a farm.
Live off the land, be your own man...except you don't know you the first thing about farming. You have a fuzzy idea that it's a lot of hard work and that it can be dangerous sometimes.
But you grow your own food and that has to be better than the monotony of stuffing bags for welfare moms at Mega-Mart.
Enter the Taxman. Now you have to make farming 'pay' because the town will take your farm from you if you can't pay your taxes, nevermind your vet bills.
Which leaves you with Plan B, the Lottery. "Win" enough money and you don't have to do peckerhead work anymore! You can also banish the idea of legally changing your middle name to 'No'...
You realize [hell, you even ACCEPT] that there isn't enough to go around. It's just your own 'rotten luck' [which most of us are still thankful for considering how much WORSE things COULD BE.] Still, it's hard to see those Mercedes and Corvettes cruising by while you're driving an econo-box you KNOW you paid too much for.
I mean WTF?
So we return to the 'web of lies'. If you can't win the lottery you have to at least figure out how to get on the 'right side' of the web of lies.
But, [and you're probably spot on] you get that sneaking suspicion that people on the other side of that particular divide were BORN THERE!
Getting frustrated yet? You should be.
You know what the problem is and you also know you aren't alone in your realization. Most people KNOW it's a management problem but nobody knows how to deal with it!
But you know that's not true either. You begin to suspect 'the founders' might have been too clever by half! If you want to change the deal they left YOU with, you have to do what THEY DID!
You KNOW it would never be as easy as getting change on the ballot, the self-interested zealously guard what you can and can't vote for.
Once again this disintegrates into an exercise in what you already know...although I just had an episode of 'if it had teeth you'd be dead now' play out with my daughter when I offered to point to the object she refused saying 'she knew'.
Well, turns out she didn't.
And you're just about at the end of your tether, aren't you? So it's best not to 'assume' what you do and don't know.
Do you see an exit [short of hitching a ride with E.T.]? Nope, the bag that formerly had 'secluded' areas is now pitch black. You CAN go 'off the grid' but you will eventually find yourself charged with 'criminal trespass' and a posse hunting for your sorry backside. [Again with the 'rumor has it'...in the Amazon, the posse tracking you down plans on eating you when they catch you. Call me a pessimist but I'm not seeing any 'daylight' in that direction either.]
Have I 'persuaded you' that there is only one acceptable 'exit strategy?' Probably not but soon it won't matter if you think its a good idea or not, you won't be given a choice...aside from the usual on, the one you get every day...Join or die.
Sound familiar?
Just because nobody uses that exact phrase doesn't mean those aren't your ONLY choices.
Because the term you're more familiar with is 'you'll do it and like it!'
Does it sound like a choice now? No? Well, the alternative is imprisonment and everything that implies once your identity is ripped away from you.
Better to die than to be ground down into unrecognizable pieces in a place that you can't get out of...
Now we return to 'The Legendary' once again. [For those of you suffering from short attention span, the full phrase is Man's legendary inhumanity to man.]
We inflict untold pain upon others solely because we can, knowing full well that we'd kill anyone who did the same thing to someone we loved...whether they were wearing a badge or not.
Using that benchmark, we are an insane race...because we refuse to put a stop to the madness. Makes you wonder how we live with ourselves for being relieved it wasn't us on the receiving end, eh?
You know this is only the tip of the iceberg, I could go on and on but there really isn't any point.
Why bring this up?
So you have something concrete to ponder the next time you're 'reminded' by some chiseler how 'well-off' you are.
I want to add a little sidebar here because there is a part of my 'design' I added specifically to combat 'the Legendary', I call it the 'personal responsibility' factor that will manifest itself in the return of dueling.
Today's wealthy have the power to have you sent to prison and broken if you 'displease' them and there isn't anything you can do about it. Worse, anyone with a badge can make your life a living hell and again, YOU are powerless (because the protection of the courts is reserved for those who can pay for that protection...
Under my design, called A Simple Plan, you would be able to, confront those who you have a greivance with, mano-a-mano. They can refuse to fight you but there are 'safeguards' built in to prevent the 'impromptu' battles that often stem from differences of opinion and the challenged can turn 'defense' into a decided advantage because the challenged gets choice of weapons.
FIRST thing to consider regarding the return of this barbaric custom is the 'knuckle-heads' that wear their hearts on their sleeves will be eliminated fairly early on. Despite it's popularity, actual duels were rare...partly because back then duels were 'to the death'. Under the new scheme, either side can petition the overseers for a 'non-lethal' contest.
This may embolden some but let me remind you, you can still be killed so consider just how badly you want to 'pay back' a foe before you go off half-cocked and challenge them. Probably better to make them challenge YOU!
You have to be wary when someone selects Tasers as their 'non-lethal' weapon of choice.
And yes Virginia, you choice of weapons will be limited...Bazooka's at ten paces is a non-starter, same goes for Howitzers!
Um, part of the protective portion [the part where the challenged has the choice of weapons, giving them the option of choosing one they are 'good' with like quarter staffs or halberds...or toothpicks if you want to insure non-lethality.]
If it is know you are an expert swordsman, it is less likely you will be challenged to a duel because most people these days aren't very good with a blade.
While I don't expect most people will pursue the martial arts to protect themselves from being singled out for a duel, It would go a long way towards a more civil society, you'd actually go out of your way to be 'polite' because insulting somebody is no longer a rigid middle finger and a grunting 'if you don't like it, sue me!'
Now you're gonna pay, one way or the other!
Yeah, personal responsibility, the world needs more of it!
while there will be a lot of ways to goad an opponent into challenging YOU, you have to be careful that you don't get yourself exiled in the process!
Go after somebody's kid and you're playing with more than fire! You WILL find yourself fighting for your life with a cast of equally as desperate characters in a place with next to NO resources.
One of the other things you'll work hard to protect is your reputation. What others think of you will be of vital importance to the kind of life you will build for yourself. Especially if the you ever fall under suspicion.
One thing you can't hide from it's your co-workers. If you're lazy, they know it. If you're a liar, they know it...if you're hard-working and helpful, they know it.
So you will not go off making any needless enemies by making anyone else's life more difficult, the quickest route to chalking up an impressive enemies list!
Why will you be the most helpful, cooperative, funny and kind work-mate anyone could hope for? Because those 'traits' will help you rise to the top of your field and could one day lead you to the leadership of our species!
Wanna make America (and the rest of the world) GREAT for EVERYBODY!
Get on board the bandwagon and support A Simple Plan!
In the infamous words of Arnold, 'follow me if you want to live!
Thank you for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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