Greetings good citizen: Welcome to the 'big empty'. We will soon gather together with family and family-less friends to share the holidays and AVOID discussing the State of the Nation. Yup, at dinner tables across the nation the subject of the freak show that affects our everyday existence will be taboo.
Peace within the family comes at a terrible price, it produces worlds like the one we now live in.
It has an even more toxic effect of letting the psychopaths among us gain the upper hand when they should be shown the damn door.
Which is to point out that if Uncle Dick is a racist, bigoted, opinionated A-hole with teeth, the holiday doesn't A.) suddenly forgive him or B.) make him into a beloved member of a family that he openly HATES (any and all who disagree with him.)
This 'My way or the highway' attitude born of the employer class [who doesn't give a F if you have a job or not...and if you don't that's on YOU and not the predatory system that has no use for you! They don't want to hear that because their only joy in life is hating others and nothing pleases them more than other people's misery.
So the loud sucking sound filling your ears as the holidays creep closer is the sound of the vacuum 'clearing the air' so the family can TRY to have just one meal in PEACE!
While I constantly point to the 'single factor' I will clarify my position by stating bluntly that a peaceful family meal is only possible if ALL of the people around the table have enough love and respect FOR OTHERS in their hearts to keep their hatred to themselves.
BEFORE you ruin your family gathering, make a mental checklist of precisely WHO starts telling anyone who will listen WHAT THEY HATE the moment they enter the room...and dis-invite them NOW! Let's fast forward to after a few cordials and consider who starts emptying their bowels as soon as they have a couple under their belt [cuz it's okay to be a sexist bigot if you're drunk] and dis-invite them too!
This post is 'targeted' to the Ladies because it all starts with YOU! YOU control who sits at your table come the holidays this means you also control the level of civility.
People behave badly because we turn a blind eye [let them get away with it, dismiss as too much to drink or some long ago ordeal that the crank never got over. (to hear THEM tell it anyway...did I mention our species is filled with opportunists?)
This is another thing we need to stop 'enabling'. Give someone an 'out' and they'll hammer that bad boy until we are all convinced they have lost it...but in the meantime they are chuckling to themselves over how stupid everybody else is...and the scary part is, it's true. We'll let somebody shit all over us if they even PRETEND they have an emotional problem.
Until they learn to 'deal' they too are off the guest list. People who want to live in their own little world are perfectly within their rights to do so. There is absolutely NO NEED for the rest of us to crawl in there with them!
At this point most of you are wondering if they raise turkeys that small [because the guest list is now tiny!] so I will suggest something you can do that will salvage SOME of the list and that is cut the power to the idiot box. Nothing fires up the psycho faster than FOX ANYTHING!
Banish your TV and tell your guests you're having an 'old-fashioned' holiday for a change. You'll be absolutely amazed at how much more civil people are if you banish the eye that never blinks. Don't worry, the kids will amuse themselves with their hand-held devices.
Another 'helpful hint' will be enforcing the 'no cell phones at the table' rule. It may force guests to leave the table every twenty seconds but that should tell you something all by itself.
That people now prefer the 'anonymity' of the on-line arena than the 'accountability' of being part of a group in a social situation...
The 'emptiness' doesn't hold them accountable and they can pretend they are anything but who they are. The emptiness doesn't judge and the vacuum keeps their secrets.
So, if you want a successful holiday, it's all in the PLANNING! Eliminate trouble before it's sitting at the table dragging everybody down.
Don't fret that the family Grinch/Scrooge will be alone...they MADE that bed themselves and choose to be that way. Forcing them to behave contrary to their nature does NOBODY any favors!
The forgotten axiom in our now scrambled social landscape is it has never been the 'church' that kept society civil, it was the damn DINNER TABLE!
Now the psycho-paths don't need to cook (or be civil for that matter) since they share their meals with the eye that never blinks. Worse, since they have nobody to talk to their head begins to echo with the poison deposited there by the newscaster.
The feckless don't care who they propagandize and the none too smart are defenseless. Sorting fact from fiction is too much for them to handle considering how much BS they are forced to swallow in their everyday lives.
Those empty seats at the dinner table are causing a serious problem society-wide because while people may drive us crazy, nothing will drive you to the cracker factory faster than the lack of 'human interaction.'
There is NOTHING more dangerous than 'unfiltered opinion' it has caused every single war since the beginning of armed conflict.
The damning vacuum is created by the none too bright retreating into their own little world...but it's lonely in there so they let 'the dumbed down' in to keep them company and suddenly we have a nation of opinionated morons on our hands! Parroting what they heard on Fox News.
[What's more disturbing is other stations are starting to sound like Fox News and that could be due to Fox becoming the 'sole source' for journalism in the corporate provided media market.]
If there is only one story why should there be two people investigating?
We can't afford to allow 'corporate logic' to regulate the news cycle, we have already seen what this leads to.
This post is filled with metaphors and, as always, the single factor doesn't have the mental horsepower to sort it out so my faith is in you who recognize that we are rudderless but don't quite grasp why this is.
Sometimes the answer is biting you on the backside and you can feel it but you don't realize its right there behind you.
Just look at the social changes since the advent of prepared frozen meals. [The bulging waistlines is another issue altogether!]
Food is the 'glue' of society and nothing spells family like 'home cooking' [which is becoming a lost art! Most modern couples refuse to make time to cook so they eat out...(and it's back to bulging waistlines, isn't it?)]
We NEED to bring the FAMILY back to the dinner table if we are to save society...and some of you are so far gone you are already asking 'why?'
If you have to ask, you'll never get it.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Peace within the family comes at a terrible price, it produces worlds like the one we now live in.
It has an even more toxic effect of letting the psychopaths among us gain the upper hand when they should be shown the damn door.
Which is to point out that if Uncle Dick is a racist, bigoted, opinionated A-hole with teeth, the holiday doesn't A.) suddenly forgive him or B.) make him into a beloved member of a family that he openly HATES (any and all who disagree with him.)
This 'My way or the highway' attitude born of the employer class [who doesn't give a F if you have a job or not...and if you don't that's on YOU and not the predatory system that has no use for you! They don't want to hear that because their only joy in life is hating others and nothing pleases them more than other people's misery.
So the loud sucking sound filling your ears as the holidays creep closer is the sound of the vacuum 'clearing the air' so the family can TRY to have just one meal in PEACE!
While I constantly point to the 'single factor' I will clarify my position by stating bluntly that a peaceful family meal is only possible if ALL of the people around the table have enough love and respect FOR OTHERS in their hearts to keep their hatred to themselves.
BEFORE you ruin your family gathering, make a mental checklist of precisely WHO starts telling anyone who will listen WHAT THEY HATE the moment they enter the room...and dis-invite them NOW! Let's fast forward to after a few cordials and consider who starts emptying their bowels as soon as they have a couple under their belt [cuz it's okay to be a sexist bigot if you're drunk] and dis-invite them too!
This post is 'targeted' to the Ladies because it all starts with YOU! YOU control who sits at your table come the holidays this means you also control the level of civility.
People behave badly because we turn a blind eye [let them get away with it, dismiss as too much to drink or some long ago ordeal that the crank never got over. (to hear THEM tell it anyway...did I mention our species is filled with opportunists?)
This is another thing we need to stop 'enabling'. Give someone an 'out' and they'll hammer that bad boy until we are all convinced they have lost it...but in the meantime they are chuckling to themselves over how stupid everybody else is...and the scary part is, it's true. We'll let somebody shit all over us if they even PRETEND they have an emotional problem.
Until they learn to 'deal' they too are off the guest list. People who want to live in their own little world are perfectly within their rights to do so. There is absolutely NO NEED for the rest of us to crawl in there with them!
At this point most of you are wondering if they raise turkeys that small [because the guest list is now tiny!] so I will suggest something you can do that will salvage SOME of the list and that is cut the power to the idiot box. Nothing fires up the psycho faster than FOX ANYTHING!
Banish your TV and tell your guests you're having an 'old-fashioned' holiday for a change. You'll be absolutely amazed at how much more civil people are if you banish the eye that never blinks. Don't worry, the kids will amuse themselves with their hand-held devices.
Another 'helpful hint' will be enforcing the 'no cell phones at the table' rule. It may force guests to leave the table every twenty seconds but that should tell you something all by itself.
That people now prefer the 'anonymity' of the on-line arena than the 'accountability' of being part of a group in a social situation...
The 'emptiness' doesn't hold them accountable and they can pretend they are anything but who they are. The emptiness doesn't judge and the vacuum keeps their secrets.
So, if you want a successful holiday, it's all in the PLANNING! Eliminate trouble before it's sitting at the table dragging everybody down.
Don't fret that the family Grinch/Scrooge will be alone...they MADE that bed themselves and choose to be that way. Forcing them to behave contrary to their nature does NOBODY any favors!
The forgotten axiom in our now scrambled social landscape is it has never been the 'church' that kept society civil, it was the damn DINNER TABLE!
Now the psycho-paths don't need to cook (or be civil for that matter) since they share their meals with the eye that never blinks. Worse, since they have nobody to talk to their head begins to echo with the poison deposited there by the newscaster.
The feckless don't care who they propagandize and the none too smart are defenseless. Sorting fact from fiction is too much for them to handle considering how much BS they are forced to swallow in their everyday lives.
Those empty seats at the dinner table are causing a serious problem society-wide because while people may drive us crazy, nothing will drive you to the cracker factory faster than the lack of 'human interaction.'
There is NOTHING more dangerous than 'unfiltered opinion' it has caused every single war since the beginning of armed conflict.
The damning vacuum is created by the none too bright retreating into their own little world...but it's lonely in there so they let 'the dumbed down' in to keep them company and suddenly we have a nation of opinionated morons on our hands! Parroting what they heard on Fox News.
[What's more disturbing is other stations are starting to sound like Fox News and that could be due to Fox becoming the 'sole source' for journalism in the corporate provided media market.]
If there is only one story why should there be two people investigating?
We can't afford to allow 'corporate logic' to regulate the news cycle, we have already seen what this leads to.
This post is filled with metaphors and, as always, the single factor doesn't have the mental horsepower to sort it out so my faith is in you who recognize that we are rudderless but don't quite grasp why this is.
Sometimes the answer is biting you on the backside and you can feel it but you don't realize its right there behind you.
Just look at the social changes since the advent of prepared frozen meals. [The bulging waistlines is another issue altogether!]
Food is the 'glue' of society and nothing spells family like 'home cooking' [which is becoming a lost art! Most modern couples refuse to make time to cook so they eat out...(and it's back to bulging waistlines, isn't it?)]
We NEED to bring the FAMILY back to the dinner table if we are to save society...and some of you are so far gone you are already asking 'why?'
If you have to ask, you'll never get it.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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