Greetings good citizen, yesterday's bloodbath in Maryland is just one more of a growing phenomenon nobody wants to admit responsibility for and that is a rudderless, futureless generation that is increasingly turning to the free room & board offered by our 'for profit' prison complex.
With rents in lockstep with mortgages and gigs that demand you work round the clock to make ends meet [anything less and only THEY make money...it's Randian 'tough love' writ large!]
What can be said of a society that fails to recognize Monsters in its midst?
Is this 'yippee, I'm goin' to jail!' phenomenon really a self-inflicted wound/unintended consequences of the 'greed is good' bible preached by Ayn Rand and her 'god' Adam Smith?
It is a deadly reflection of a society that is mishandling Justice epicly!
Most shooters kill themselves but in a world that has no use for you, is a life sentence really 'punishment'? Even if you are given the death penalty you'll grow old and gray before they actually administer it [there's more profits for both sides of the system in letting the appeals process keep you alive for a couple of decades...]
The ones that shoot themselves just don't see the benefit of waiting for exoneration that they know isn't coming. Whereas the ones that let themselves be captured don't have to do ANYTHING they don't want to do ever again!
[Or so they think...]
Either way one has to be pretty desperate to commit a capital crime in the first place. If you're just 'reasonably careful' and plan it well you can murder just about anyone and get away with it.
Mental horsepower is not what wins you a badge [it's why there are so many wrongful convictions. Cops grab 'the most likely suspect' and if any evidence at all turns up, it's case closed.]
Remember, cops were originally thugs that laid in wait for you near the bank on payday. Their brand of 'cleverness' stopped at knowing not to bushwhack the guys headed uptown, that might be friends with the mayor, pick off the guy who staggers out of the bar after paying off his tab, the cops care less about what happens to a guy that was going to drink/smoke/snort his paycheck in the first place.
What a cesspool, huh? Is this why nobody cares...because we all hold such a low opinion of each other?
Remember what I taught you about hatred. It is 'inorganic', we are taught our prejudices and that includes hatred for no rational reason.
Still, the 'joke' is that when some guys are asked what their 'retirement plans' are, they answer they are going to murder someone and spend the rest of their lives in prison terrorizing the other inmates.
To them it's a moot point if they survive until they reach the executioner's station, they're already dead.
Which begs a pretty interesting question, doesn't it?
Why do we allow 'the already dead' to determine the course of our civilization?
Those who turn a blind eye to the plight of billions and do nothing for children being raised in abject poverty have paved the path our society is on at this very moment. How bizarre that it was Ayn Rand's 'tough love' philosophy and misguided thinking we were doing those kids a favor by not providing for them!
The woman was beyond twisted, for which her works should held up and ridiculed by teachers around the planet as the prime example of what NOT TO DO to be 'human'.
I suspect the people picking up weapons and going on shooting sprees are not Randites themselves but the VICTIMS of Rand's followers. The rabid, uncaring capitalist who whips their employees mercilessly from the comfort of their armchairs then protests to anyone that will listen how they built their empires 'single handedly'.
There is only ONE place for that brand of 'rugged individual' and that place is Lord of the Flies Island! [A place where there is only one rule, kill anyone/thing on sight!]
Since you won't be the first one there, you eat what you kill or you starve...[individualism at its purest!]
Perspective is everything, those who are not clear eyed enough to see us all must not be given leadership or [as with the path we are currently on] we will be led to our doom.
Again the ugly spectre of the Already Dead raises its maw and and asks why avoid the 'inevitable'?
Here is the divide, are we already doomed?
I don't hold that opinion and many who say otherwise don't either, they tell you we're doomed because what you don't get becomes theirs!
Never underestimate unbridled greed (or people fond of saying aloud, 'I can't help it if they're stupid!')
Whether you realize it or not that is the official password of the Asshole Club.
You have to be mighty stupid to not figure out they are talking to/about YOU!
And that concludes today's offering
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
With rents in lockstep with mortgages and gigs that demand you work round the clock to make ends meet [anything less and only THEY make money...it's Randian 'tough love' writ large!]
What can be said of a society that fails to recognize Monsters in its midst?
Is this 'yippee, I'm goin' to jail!' phenomenon really a self-inflicted wound/unintended consequences of the 'greed is good' bible preached by Ayn Rand and her 'god' Adam Smith?
It is a deadly reflection of a society that is mishandling Justice epicly!
Most shooters kill themselves but in a world that has no use for you, is a life sentence really 'punishment'? Even if you are given the death penalty you'll grow old and gray before they actually administer it [there's more profits for both sides of the system in letting the appeals process keep you alive for a couple of decades...]
The ones that shoot themselves just don't see the benefit of waiting for exoneration that they know isn't coming. Whereas the ones that let themselves be captured don't have to do ANYTHING they don't want to do ever again!
[Or so they think...]
Either way one has to be pretty desperate to commit a capital crime in the first place. If you're just 'reasonably careful' and plan it well you can murder just about anyone and get away with it.
Mental horsepower is not what wins you a badge [it's why there are so many wrongful convictions. Cops grab 'the most likely suspect' and if any evidence at all turns up, it's case closed.]
Remember, cops were originally thugs that laid in wait for you near the bank on payday. Their brand of 'cleverness' stopped at knowing not to bushwhack the guys headed uptown, that might be friends with the mayor, pick off the guy who staggers out of the bar after paying off his tab, the cops care less about what happens to a guy that was going to drink/smoke/snort his paycheck in the first place.
What a cesspool, huh? Is this why nobody cares...because we all hold such a low opinion of each other?
Remember what I taught you about hatred. It is 'inorganic', we are taught our prejudices and that includes hatred for no rational reason.
Still, the 'joke' is that when some guys are asked what their 'retirement plans' are, they answer they are going to murder someone and spend the rest of their lives in prison terrorizing the other inmates.
To them it's a moot point if they survive until they reach the executioner's station, they're already dead.
Which begs a pretty interesting question, doesn't it?
Why do we allow 'the already dead' to determine the course of our civilization?
Those who turn a blind eye to the plight of billions and do nothing for children being raised in abject poverty have paved the path our society is on at this very moment. How bizarre that it was Ayn Rand's 'tough love' philosophy and misguided thinking we were doing those kids a favor by not providing for them!
The woman was beyond twisted, for which her works should held up and ridiculed by teachers around the planet as the prime example of what NOT TO DO to be 'human'.
I suspect the people picking up weapons and going on shooting sprees are not Randites themselves but the VICTIMS of Rand's followers. The rabid, uncaring capitalist who whips their employees mercilessly from the comfort of their armchairs then protests to anyone that will listen how they built their empires 'single handedly'.
There is only ONE place for that brand of 'rugged individual' and that place is Lord of the Flies Island! [A place where there is only one rule, kill anyone/thing on sight!]
Since you won't be the first one there, you eat what you kill or you starve...[individualism at its purest!]
Perspective is everything, those who are not clear eyed enough to see us all must not be given leadership or [as with the path we are currently on] we will be led to our doom.
Again the ugly spectre of the Already Dead raises its maw and and asks why avoid the 'inevitable'?
Here is the divide, are we already doomed?
I don't hold that opinion and many who say otherwise don't either, they tell you we're doomed because what you don't get becomes theirs!
Never underestimate unbridled greed (or people fond of saying aloud, 'I can't help it if they're stupid!')
Whether you realize it or not that is the official password of the Asshole Club.
You have to be mighty stupid to not figure out they are talking to/about YOU!
And that concludes today's offering
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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