Monday, May 16, 2016

Brief Flyby Over the TV Sluts

Nothing to do with gender but rather it's those who bring so much melodrama to individual murders, particularly if the victim was a pretty blonde girl, and ignore altogether the overall symptoms of many more people being put in jail after Clinton's 'reforms' and that a heavily-disproportionate number of black people are in jail.

Doing what's right instead of endlessly making things worse is an idea which goes right past them.

More and more the answer is shut the last doors and walk away but it's like with cigarettes insofar as smoking one will mess up your chest but the drug implants the idea smoking another will make it better.  People keep watching the patent melodrama in most of the news shows and their hearts die behind them.  The thinking is when they say it on each channel then it must be true but that's straight out of "The Marching Morons" (Cyril Kornbluth) and every nightmare sci-fi view of potential futures.

It's the same in the story with "Harrison Bergeron" as the state forces use of devices to 'equalize' everyone such as smart people need bells going off every so often so they do not think too much more than others;  athletes need to be handicapped with physical weights to equalize with others of lesser ability; beautiful people must wear masks so they do not make less beautiful people feel bad.

(Note:  written by Kurt Vonnegut in fifties or sixties and likely one of the most biting assessments of the absurdity of equality beyond basic human rights to breathe, drink water, be free, etc.)

Those stories have been mentioned multiple times and because of the major influence of the thinking from way back on my perception of things.  The cancerous influence of false notions of equality may be evident when people say doctors, physicists are so intelligent but they don't really believe it so they can make their own ideas equal.  As we see from the anti-vaxx people, they're not even close to equal but try to promote themselves to pretend they are.  Regrettably, the same marching morons believe it.

It was on the news, you know.


You can see all over where people have frozen in position with attitudes such as I'm voting for Clinton and that settles it.  That's exactly the unquestioning death which has come to large segments and why so many are furious about it.  We don't believe there are enough of them to defeat the Millennials so the only variable is whether they show when heads are counted.


More and more, even observing the wannabe stars and starlets on the so-called news is toxic when they so assiduously do nothing about what's right and actively seek to exacerbate problems for their own amusement, reward, election, etc.


There's some mild comedy in Donald Trump shooting off wild ideas like a snowmaking machine at a Northeastern ski resort while more and more tin soldier Republicans line up behind him, after rolling over for everything they said about him.  The spinelessness of those who have been such resolute pricks previously does bring some amusement but it's brief and there's no need for dwelling on the obvious.


Some coolness came when a friend ran video of Big-Time Bowling from the sixties and the sport was huge back then.  That drifted from favor to be replaced by 'extreme' sports such as someone skydiving with a surfboard.  That may play well on the beach but it ignores the fact eventually the skydiver will have to release the board and it will hit the ground at anything up to one hundred and eighty miles per hour (i.e. terminal velocity in a free fall).  Anyone underneath it will be dead like Skydiver Surfer's brain.

There was nothing extreme about bowling and maybe people would dig it because it seems almost impossible to cheat and the contest could be engaging to watch.  That trip wasn't so much 'look at me' rather than brisk competition and I will look at that.  As to extreme, the only interest is, well, he didn't kill himself doing that yet ... but he probably will.


In wading through so much irrelevant kibble on the news, it becomes clear you stuck your foot somewhere you really did not want it to go.




At this moment, the only thought is how to get back out of it ... but ... you can't.



Maybe 2005 in Rhode Island.   Don't worry about the yellow snow as that stuff is obvious.  It's when the snow turns purple that things start getting weird.

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