Greetings good citizen, I operate on the premise that what's obvious to me isn't necessarily obvious to everyone else. So if I sometimes pick a topic that strikes you as 'mundane' please bear with me, I assure you it isn't 'as plain as the nose on your face' to everybody else.
Let's take a moment and survey the landscape for a moment, shall we? You know what's underneath the greenest spot in our yard, don't you?
Um, if you live in the city it's your [leaky] water main but in the burb's it's your septic tank.
A little harder to see is the gigantic 'green spot' at the heart of every community. It too is a 'cesspool' of sorts.
You're combing your mental records to determine if you missed the invisible gray water accumulator downtown but in this instance I'm referring to the 'everybody knows' crap tank, the cesspit of corruption we find even at the local levels of government. [Now you (hopefully) catch the 'downtown reference...]
As I marvel at the highly unlikely political outcomes of the current presidential race I once again observe how all of this is possible. Corruption is EVERYWHERE!
Am I shocked? No. I am somewhat disturbed that it is SO COMMON PLACE that we all take it for granted.
But perhaps I set the bar too high. Maybe I'm expecting too much of my, er, less than sensible...(obviously less developed) sub-species.
Which begs the question. Is the underregulated mess we call civilization the result of our ignoring the differences in the level of development within our own species?
We may all be human but some of us aren't particularly proficient at this thing we call 'thinking'.
Since 'Morning in America' we have seen a decided preference in the hiring and placement of the 'thinking optional' segment of our species with many of them being placed in 'chokepoints' in the decision-making process.
Like W. calling himself 'The Decider'. WTF?
Or the inexplicable [well actually, he's emblematic of what I'm taking about] rise of Donald Trump.
He LOVES the 'uneducated' because he knows they're not smarter than him.
How ironic is it that he's cratering in the polls after sharing his opinion that had there been an armed citizen been in that nightclub, the carnage would have been diminished.
Guns and alcohol don't mix. But naturally we 'misunderstood', Donald was saying if there were a SOBER armed citizen [preferably a marksman too boot] things may have turned out differently.
Which is to circle back to my primary point, WE DON'T LIVE IN A 'THINKING OPTIONAL' SOCIETY!
A 'miscommunication' could have disasterous consequences, Like St. Ronnie's gaff while performing a mic check in Europe during the still dangerous 'Cold War' [Where he jokingly announced, 'we launch in five minutes'] He should have known better. Numbnuts WOULD HAVE LAUNCHED if Mr. Gorbachev had made the same wisecrack!
Good thing for us all that 'Morning in Moscow' didn't occur until after this incident...
Or there wouldn't have been a Morning for anyone afterwards...although the hopelessly stupid know they don't have the authority to do anything without express permission. Which leads us back to the people responsible for the cesspit, the same people responsible for installing these mindless wonders in the chokepoints.
Which is to opine that if we ever do encounter an event where the 'president' has to decide 'quickly' whether or not to launch, would he first have to get 'permission'?
Because you KNOW the 'meatpuppet-in-chief' is just a figurehead. He may 'panic' and order the launch but will anything happen?It's rather doubtful actually considering the testimony of the chairman of the joint chiefs, who said point blank if The Donald ordered a launch, they'd refuse!!! [circumsances not withstanding, if NORAD was showing incoming, they'd launch alright!]
But as the film 'War games' showed, even those (now ancient) computers can be, er, 'hacked'. [Which is a little weird, can you think of a reason why such a sensitive piece of equipment needs to be attached to the outside world? Short answer, no.]
STOP...let's regroup, shall we?
The world as we know it is a cesspool of corruption, headed by the terminally stupid at the behest of the criminally insane.
Not a particularly flattering portrait of 5,000 years of so-called 'progress' but more accurate than not, however unfortunately.
IF we posit that the pending solution to the end of capitalism [due mostly to the end of cheap abundant energy more so than the widespread inequity it fosters] is a 'faux' nuclear attack [in an insane attempt to cut the 'surplus population' down to a manageable size.]
Any RATIONAL PERSON would be shaking in their socks that the Republican nominee is a certified Circus clown [that some independent news outlets are likening to Reagan, another clueless oaf that was crowned King by the bought and paid for media.
When the 'mushrooms'(clouds) pop it will be too late to ask questions...not that they couldn't engineer a war on Hillary's watch either.
Hell, truth be told, given the circumstances, they COULD paint Bernie into a corner, giving him no choice but to launch!
A few more points to make before we close this rant. First, for all of those 'fiscally conservative but socially liberal' morons out there. Taxes have been slashed [on the upper income levels by more than half] AND ONLY the upper income levels so what GOOD has it done YOU?
Still waiting for that 'rising tide'?
Then there's the corruption itself. It's not only ubiquitous, it's omnipresent! Public servants/elected officials regularly make the news for getting bagged with their fingers in the proverbial 'cookie jar'. The disturbing part is for everyone that gets caught, a dozen others are getting away with it and have been for YEARS if not GENERATIONS!
Naturally, like most of my essays, drawing attention to this issue does little to alter the outcome. We can't fix this while retaining the rotten structure that supports it.
You know in most cases the ones that get caught were thrown under the bus, payback for not going along with some other nefarious scheme.
So what do we do? Pray 'The Lord' returns and 'delivers' the rest of us from the 'wicked'?
How long are we supposed to wait for that to happen?
I don't know about you but I can't hold my breath that long.
In this particular instance I can't see much less offer a solution.
With a heavy heart I once again thank you for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Let's take a moment and survey the landscape for a moment, shall we? You know what's underneath the greenest spot in our yard, don't you?
Um, if you live in the city it's your [leaky] water main but in the burb's it's your septic tank.
A little harder to see is the gigantic 'green spot' at the heart of every community. It too is a 'cesspool' of sorts.
You're combing your mental records to determine if you missed the invisible gray water accumulator downtown but in this instance I'm referring to the 'everybody knows' crap tank, the cesspit of corruption we find even at the local levels of government. [Now you (hopefully) catch the 'downtown reference...]
As I marvel at the highly unlikely political outcomes of the current presidential race I once again observe how all of this is possible. Corruption is EVERYWHERE!
Am I shocked? No. I am somewhat disturbed that it is SO COMMON PLACE that we all take it for granted.
But perhaps I set the bar too high. Maybe I'm expecting too much of my, er, less than sensible...(obviously less developed) sub-species.
Which begs the question. Is the underregulated mess we call civilization the result of our ignoring the differences in the level of development within our own species?
We may all be human but some of us aren't particularly proficient at this thing we call 'thinking'.
Since 'Morning in America' we have seen a decided preference in the hiring and placement of the 'thinking optional' segment of our species with many of them being placed in 'chokepoints' in the decision-making process.
Like W. calling himself 'The Decider'. WTF?
Or the inexplicable [well actually, he's emblematic of what I'm taking about] rise of Donald Trump.
He LOVES the 'uneducated' because he knows they're not smarter than him.
How ironic is it that he's cratering in the polls after sharing his opinion that had there been an armed citizen been in that nightclub, the carnage would have been diminished.
Guns and alcohol don't mix. But naturally we 'misunderstood', Donald was saying if there were a SOBER armed citizen [preferably a marksman too boot] things may have turned out differently.
Which is to circle back to my primary point, WE DON'T LIVE IN A 'THINKING OPTIONAL' SOCIETY!
A 'miscommunication' could have disasterous consequences, Like St. Ronnie's gaff while performing a mic check in Europe during the still dangerous 'Cold War' [Where he jokingly announced, 'we launch in five minutes'] He should have known better. Numbnuts WOULD HAVE LAUNCHED if Mr. Gorbachev had made the same wisecrack!
Good thing for us all that 'Morning in Moscow' didn't occur until after this incident...
Or there wouldn't have been a Morning for anyone afterwards...although the hopelessly stupid know they don't have the authority to do anything without express permission. Which leads us back to the people responsible for the cesspit, the same people responsible for installing these mindless wonders in the chokepoints.
Which is to opine that if we ever do encounter an event where the 'president' has to decide 'quickly' whether or not to launch, would he first have to get 'permission'?
Because you KNOW the 'meatpuppet-in-chief' is just a figurehead. He may 'panic' and order the launch but will anything happen?It's rather doubtful actually considering the testimony of the chairman of the joint chiefs, who said point blank if The Donald ordered a launch, they'd refuse!!! [circumsances not withstanding, if NORAD was showing incoming, they'd launch alright!]
But as the film 'War games' showed, even those (now ancient) computers can be, er, 'hacked'. [Which is a little weird, can you think of a reason why such a sensitive piece of equipment needs to be attached to the outside world? Short answer, no.]
STOP...let's regroup, shall we?
The world as we know it is a cesspool of corruption, headed by the terminally stupid at the behest of the criminally insane.
Not a particularly flattering portrait of 5,000 years of so-called 'progress' but more accurate than not, however unfortunately.
IF we posit that the pending solution to the end of capitalism [due mostly to the end of cheap abundant energy more so than the widespread inequity it fosters] is a 'faux' nuclear attack [in an insane attempt to cut the 'surplus population' down to a manageable size.]
Any RATIONAL PERSON would be shaking in their socks that the Republican nominee is a certified Circus clown [that some independent news outlets are likening to Reagan, another clueless oaf that was crowned King by the bought and paid for media.
When the 'mushrooms'(clouds) pop it will be too late to ask questions...not that they couldn't engineer a war on Hillary's watch either.
Hell, truth be told, given the circumstances, they COULD paint Bernie into a corner, giving him no choice but to launch!
A few more points to make before we close this rant. First, for all of those 'fiscally conservative but socially liberal' morons out there. Taxes have been slashed [on the upper income levels by more than half] AND ONLY the upper income levels so what GOOD has it done YOU?
Still waiting for that 'rising tide'?
Then there's the corruption itself. It's not only ubiquitous, it's omnipresent! Public servants/elected officials regularly make the news for getting bagged with their fingers in the proverbial 'cookie jar'. The disturbing part is for everyone that gets caught, a dozen others are getting away with it and have been for YEARS if not GENERATIONS!
Naturally, like most of my essays, drawing attention to this issue does little to alter the outcome. We can't fix this while retaining the rotten structure that supports it.
You know in most cases the ones that get caught were thrown under the bus, payback for not going along with some other nefarious scheme.
So what do we do? Pray 'The Lord' returns and 'delivers' the rest of us from the 'wicked'?
How long are we supposed to wait for that to happen?
I don't know about you but I can't hold my breath that long.
In this particular instance I can't see much less offer a solution.
With a heavy heart I once again thank you for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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