What an interesting day. Secluded and isolated in my own little world, I’m clueless about the ongoings of the madness about me. I can think of many who will sniff in condescension at my lack of awareness of current events, but I stopped caring about current events quite some time ago. The thing about ‘current events’ is that they’re not current - they’re only the unwelcome repetition of the same bullshit we’ve been seeing for seventy years. Okay. Maybe not seventy. Fifty? Yeah. Let’s agree on that.
It doesn’t really matter. Names have changed along with geographical locations but the game is the same. If you’re not familiar with the game, open your fucking eyes. It’s called the military-industrial complex and if you haven’t learned about it in high school, maybe you should put down your cell phone and stop texting your friend two rows over with your massive intellect, voiced in such phrases as ZOMG!!! and ROFL. LMAO is acceptable in light of the nonsense being spewed by our underpaid, bottom-of-the-barrel-pick public educators.
Now I know a lot of you educators will take exception to this remark, but hey, if I have to prove one more time that my 4th grade kid’s answer was right on his math exam and you just failed to see it because either 1) you don’t understand the subject material, or 2) you don’t give a shit and are more concerned with the emasculation of the preteen male society, or 3) you’ve been ‘converted’ into believing that your job is no longer to teach, but to coach our kids into passing some standardized achievement test because of performance-based funding, I think I’ll send my child to Zimbabwe with a protractor and an elephant rifle because the drivel he’s learning in public schools is just that. Drivel. I work at a college where over 85% of our incoming freshmen students have to take remedial courses in Math, Reading and Writing. Wow… No child left behind, huh? It sounded good at the start, but I think the spirit of the idea was lost. I don’t think ‘no child left behind’ was supposed to mean let’s reduce our entire future generation to the lowest common denominator.
If you’re out of high school and clueless, maybe all happy and smug with your 1980s wage scale while trying to pay 2008 inflation prices, take a look around. Obama isn’t the answer. Neither is John McCain. Has there ever been more transparency between party lines as what we see today? I don’t know what either of their platform is. Do they actually have one? Do either of them address any issues that concern the average American? As much as I hate the thought, I’ll have to actually research that. It’s hard to be excited about that prospect though. John McCain is about as exciting as a piece of overcooked linguini lying cold and smashed on a kitchen floor. Obama on the other hand seems to be stirring up quite a bit of excitement as witnessed by all of the absurd spam email chains coming through my inbox. People who can’t think for themselves should not become electrical-communicative once every four years when they take their fingers out of their noses. ZOMG!!! It’s a muslim!!! What the hell is that all about? Maybe he is, maybe he isn’t. Who cares? So let’s dredge up every despicable act executed by extremist Muslims in the last 80 years and lay them at his feet. Let’s not stop there, let’s attach religious connotations to it as well and send alarmist emails to all of our hillbillly friends urging them ever more to forward these on to everybody we know! That’ll show them! Don’t fuck with us By God (Or Mohammed, Buddha, Menthu-Ra, Peter Griffin, etc - no offense intended by omission). The ignorance and provincialism of the human mind is staggering.
If you want to get away with something, redirection is a key component to the strategy. The average American citizen is currently so overwhelmed by the rising costs of energy that the focus of their attention is on how to make it from one payday to the next. Who, twenty years ago, would have ever guessed that electric bills would be surpassing mortgage payments? That gasoline costs would riducule car payments? Ask yourself a very simple question: Whom does it benefit? Trace it down, follow the trail. Where does the money go and what makes it possible for it to go there? As a friend of mine once said, “It’s not rocket science! Which is a good thing, because we’re not rocket scientists.”
The really sad thing is that while the rest of the world is producing world-class rocket scientists, we have MySpace! Fuckin’ A!