Greetings good citizen, another f'n Monday and a holiday Monday for the fortunate few. Gig employees and workers in the 24/7 retail and hospitality industry don't have it off but people in the traditional FIRE sector likely do...just another stark reminder about the 'divide' between the haves and the have nots in our society.
Today's NY times had a few suggestions regarding what you might want to do with a 'bonus day' and it turned into a 'to-do' list, one of those rare devices that seldom take physical reality because the worst part of a to-do list is how it is evidence that you are a slacker...and it wouldn't do to have others find damning evidence of your lack of competence.
Most of us avoid making 'to-do' lists because the things we will never get around to always compete to be placed on top of the list but the reason you have put off even starting that task still remains, stubbornly thwarting your best efforts to move forward.
Not that anyone needs to search too hard for things that need doing, they are ubiquitous just as are the reasons you haven't so much as lifted a finger towards crossing them off your mental list.
Primary on the 'excuse list' is money [bit of a fib there actually, money is tied with laziness as the number one reason shit don't get done. If it ain't on fire there is no rush to address those little things you keep putting on hold.
Some of us are honest (with ourselves and it is also the primary reason so few of us keep lists) we look at something and know we won't even think about it until it breaks, forcing you to address something you SHOULD HAVE gotten out in front of.
Sometimes it limps along much longer than you expected it to and other times it breaks immediately after is exhibits a behavior that alerts you to the fact something needs your attention...otherwise it's the old 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it.'
Perhaps the most frustrating of things on your to-do list are the things you can't fix alone...like society. You MAY have been taught that keeping the wheels of civilization from flying off was the Church's responsibility but you became doubtful when you learned that the church's primary weapons are fear leveraged against an overactive imagination.
Now the wheels are flying off and you don't have the tools to fix it yourself...but that's not the worst part.
The people who make you 'borrow' your life from them have instructed their wage slaves to lie to you about all things economic...which only the cognizant recognize as being a substitute for the more urgent word...survival.
Naturally it wouldn't go well for the self-serving if you became aware that the people leading humanity were actually trying to exterminate you, would it?
Most people cannot 'see' themselves 'doing better' regardless of what the stock markets do so that is lie number one.
AI MIGHT be 'just around the corner but so is the cure for cancer...how patient are you? Millions are dying waiting for the cure but the feckless aren't old enough to have the problem so like most other things on your to-do list, it doesn't get done because as far as the feckless are concerned, 'it ain't broke'.
Curing cancer or developing AI not on your radar? Then what is driving the stock markets to ridiculous [emphasis on the ridiculous!] heights?
Lies.
Now ask yourself another question, do you honestly believe it is safe to ignore the lies of people who have no qualms with exterminating you?
They want you to move to Mars, a dead world BECAUSE it has no magnetosphere. They know this and you have heard it but the hopelessly dumb seem unable to comprehend what that means when you compound those problems by redefining the term 'life below zero'.
The question that remains is whether or not this is 'stupidity' or an alternate way of keeping 'the herd' thinned?
Problem with attempting to lick the technical problems of colonizing the inhospitable environments offered by our local celestial neighbors is we are more likely to solve the FTL problem first and go directly to seeking out and colonizing 'hospitable' worlds. [Just maybe this will slow the efforts of the feckless/more for me crowd from attempting to exterminate the 'surplus population'...keyword, MAYBE!]
[STOP] Why isn't this fact front and center in the public dialog? That's right, THE F'N MEDIA DOESN'T WORK FOR YOU!
But I digress.
Did you just discover something that keeps leaping to the top of your to-do list but you can't do it alone so you just gave up on making lists?
Remember why I end these when I do.
Gegner
Today's NY times had a few suggestions regarding what you might want to do with a 'bonus day' and it turned into a 'to-do' list, one of those rare devices that seldom take physical reality because the worst part of a to-do list is how it is evidence that you are a slacker...and it wouldn't do to have others find damning evidence of your lack of competence.
Most of us avoid making 'to-do' lists because the things we will never get around to always compete to be placed on top of the list but the reason you have put off even starting that task still remains, stubbornly thwarting your best efforts to move forward.
Not that anyone needs to search too hard for things that need doing, they are ubiquitous just as are the reasons you haven't so much as lifted a finger towards crossing them off your mental list.
Primary on the 'excuse list' is money [bit of a fib there actually, money is tied with laziness as the number one reason shit don't get done. If it ain't on fire there is no rush to address those little things you keep putting on hold.
Some of us are honest (with ourselves and it is also the primary reason so few of us keep lists) we look at something and know we won't even think about it until it breaks, forcing you to address something you SHOULD HAVE gotten out in front of.
Sometimes it limps along much longer than you expected it to and other times it breaks immediately after is exhibits a behavior that alerts you to the fact something needs your attention...otherwise it's the old 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it.'
Perhaps the most frustrating of things on your to-do list are the things you can't fix alone...like society. You MAY have been taught that keeping the wheels of civilization from flying off was the Church's responsibility but you became doubtful when you learned that the church's primary weapons are fear leveraged against an overactive imagination.
Now the wheels are flying off and you don't have the tools to fix it yourself...but that's not the worst part.
The people who make you 'borrow' your life from them have instructed their wage slaves to lie to you about all things economic...which only the cognizant recognize as being a substitute for the more urgent word...survival.
Naturally it wouldn't go well for the self-serving if you became aware that the people leading humanity were actually trying to exterminate you, would it?
Most people cannot 'see' themselves 'doing better' regardless of what the stock markets do so that is lie number one.
AI MIGHT be 'just around the corner but so is the cure for cancer...how patient are you? Millions are dying waiting for the cure but the feckless aren't old enough to have the problem so like most other things on your to-do list, it doesn't get done because as far as the feckless are concerned, 'it ain't broke'.
Curing cancer or developing AI not on your radar? Then what is driving the stock markets to ridiculous [emphasis on the ridiculous!] heights?
Lies.
Now ask yourself another question, do you honestly believe it is safe to ignore the lies of people who have no qualms with exterminating you?
They want you to move to Mars, a dead world BECAUSE it has no magnetosphere. They know this and you have heard it but the hopelessly dumb seem unable to comprehend what that means when you compound those problems by redefining the term 'life below zero'.
The question that remains is whether or not this is 'stupidity' or an alternate way of keeping 'the herd' thinned?
Problem with attempting to lick the technical problems of colonizing the inhospitable environments offered by our local celestial neighbors is we are more likely to solve the FTL problem first and go directly to seeking out and colonizing 'hospitable' worlds. [Just maybe this will slow the efforts of the feckless/more for me crowd from attempting to exterminate the 'surplus population'...keyword, MAYBE!]
[STOP] Why isn't this fact front and center in the public dialog? That's right, THE F'N MEDIA DOESN'T WORK FOR YOU!
But I digress.
Did you just discover something that keeps leaping to the top of your to-do list but you can't do it alone so you just gave up on making lists?
Remember why I end these when I do.
Gegner
The people who make you 'borrow' your life from them have instructed their wage slaves to lie to you about all things economic...which only the cognizant recognize as being a substitute for the more urgent word...survival.
ReplyDeleteMost people cannot 'see' themselves 'doing better' regardless of what the stock markets do so that is lie number one.
ReplyDelete[STOP] Why isn't this fact front and center in the public dialog? That's right, THE F'N MEDIA DOESN'T WORK FOR YOU!
ReplyDeleteBut I digress.
Did you just discover something that keeps leaping to the top of your to-do list but you can't do it alone so you just gave up on making lists?
Remember why I end these when I do.
AI MIGHT be 'just around the corner but so is the cure for cancer...how patient are you? Millions are dying waiting for the cure but the feckless aren't old enough to have the problem so like most other things on your to-do list, it doesn't get done because as far as the feckless are concerned, 'it ain't broke'.
ReplyDeleteNow ask yourself another question, do you honestly believe it is safe to ignore the lies of people who have no qualms with exterminating you?
ReplyDeleteDon't brush it off, consider how 'authority' treats the typical citizen...
Most of us avoid making 'to-do' lists because the things we will never get around to always compete to be placed on top of the list but the reason you have put off even starting that task still remains, stubbornly thwarting your best efforts to move forward.
ReplyDeleteNow the wheels are flying off and you don't have the tools to fix it yourself...but that's not the worst part.
ReplyDeletePrimary on the 'excuse list' is money [bit of a fib there actually, money is tied with laziness as the number one reason shit don't get done. If it ain't on fire there is no rush to address those little things you keep putting on hold.
ReplyDelete