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This just boggles the fuck out of me, I don’t know what would motivate a human being to do this outside of total abject stupidity.
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As a Canadian I can honestly say I give fuck all about our political system, I have been legally able to vote two years in a row now and I have yet to do so because I have to admit that I never know when the elections are happening until we’ve already finished them. Although I have to say I would probably vote for our Marijuana party because at this point in human history our civilization is so absurd that voting for people who would at least legalize dope seems like a genuinely rational decision. Imagine if they had actually won, there’d be no way to flip flop on the legalization issue as that is virtually their entire platform. It would be like Barack Obama trying to get into the presidency with promises of hope and freedom then suddenly turning around and doing the exact opposite AHAHA SCATHING POLITICAL CRITICISMS.
But these student protests in Quebec actually have me interested in the internal affairs of my motherland for reasons beyond peeking out of my cave to see if weed is legal yet. I can’t really relate to people who care about their education, probably because I am a lazy and cynical misanthropist who finds the entire concept of hoping for a better future to be quaint and misguided but deep down within the molten core of my black heart still beats the drum line of dissent and dissatisfaction with the status quo. Namely in that the status quo exists seemingly exclusively to line the pockets of rich old white men, men who have zero ethical dilemmas with saying that their lives are at all difficult, worthy of admiration or deserving of financial compensation for being horrendous fuck ups. Really you say to yourself, this is the world I live in?
I would summarize the current state of affairs by saying that the present mistakes of the old, flaccid, corrupt and inept are being paid for with the futures of the young people. See I always thought that, when you got old enough, you realized you were largely useless to society and you basically stepped down from power to allow younger people to take your place. What we’ve seen now is basically the remains of a corrupt system that has dictated the lives of human beings for hundreds if not thousands of years all because of a few bitter old men. It’s a fucked thought to think that the vast majority of war, war profiteering, poverty, suicide, modern day slavery, conflict goods and child soldiers and prostitution can be held responsible to the actions of a couple of men. It’s crazy to think our civilization still functions like that, it’s crazy to think that we’re literally just too stuck in our old ways to utilize our technology to it’s fullest potential. Michio Kaku said that in twenty years our computers will be advanced enough to simulate reality but that we’ll just be too dumb to figure out how to get them to do that.
My generation got a pretty weird hand dealt with them in that we got to see the last days of excess and decadence for the western world before we spiralled into a shitstorm that is basically leading us into a straight nose dive towards the ground. A bunch of old men skip into the room with bags of money and say sorry about the messy state of affairs, have fun struggling to fix it while we go spend the remainder of our short and bitter lives in total luxury as a reward for fucking you over! Peace! And of course it’s too much to hope that their private planes will all suddenly experience total engine failure above the nearest active volcanoes.
It’s legitimately fucking shocking to me that these people haven’t been decapitated yet and their heads thrown from the roofs of banks to splatter on the sidewalk like so many blood filled pumpkins. I consider myself a somewhat ethical person in the sense I have never initiated a financial collapse of a nation for my own profit and I’ve never, to my knowledge anyway, instigated unjust and non-sensical wars that didn’t really help with the whole economy bit. So, ethical when viewed from that light, it seems insane to support the deaths of these people but what the hell else can you do? The French came to this conclusion hundreds of years ago and while we might view that as barbaric by today’s standards at least that got the point that they were pissed more effectively across than clever signs and sitting around outside the building where there oppressors work. I support Occupy and everything but do you really think these people at all give a shit about what you want? The fact that they couldn’t give a fuck about you is what led to you sitting out there to begin with so I highly fucking doubt that having to look at you every day will suddenly inspire humanity in their hearts. It’s a collective of people who literally love to think of themselves as sociopathic sharks.
It’s not an easy thing think of who deserves to live and who deserves to die but I would argue that if you are constantly fucking people over without remorse and then getting paid vast sums of money for doing so then the guillotine might be a bit much but holy fuck do you belong behind bars. Seriously why are these people not in prison? If any human being deserves Guantanamo then please let it be these ones. I have to admit there is a sadistic pleasure to be taken in thinking about these people being water boarded and gang fucked by prison guards because it’s a delightfully ironic and literal re-inactment of what they do to the western world as a whole. Imagine the wonderful shcaudenfreude to be had when assholes used to total luxury are suddenly forced to actually pay for what they’ve done and their whole world comes crashing down on itself, they’re broken and beaten down to their barest humanity and brutalized in such a way that makes them realize, fucking gasp, pain hurts!
Well congratulations assholes of the world because there is absolutely zero fucking possibility of that ever happening short of an over night coup followed swiftly by a nation wide broadcast of your executions via firing squads. No you’re so well protected that the people who hate you more than anything are literally just standing around outside your offices instead of, I don’t know, blowing it up. You see the reason I’m shocked that none of these men are dead yet isn’t because I lust for delicious banker blood but because I would have expected some one to do something crazy by now. I mean really? There wasn’t one lone nut with a gun who popped one of these guys down when he was walking out to his benz? There wasn’t a single person with access to an apartment window and a high powered rifle? This confuses me because it contradicts virtually everything I knew about human insanity, namely in that it can fucking fly off the handle at a moment’s notice which is why we refer to it as insanity. Occupy Wallstreet seems too goddamn diplomatic to really be a solution for a problem that requires radically altering the way things are going. It’s like the UN asking North Korea to not go nuke crazy, pretty pretty please? You’re entrusting your fates to the machinations of sociopaths with no regard for the value of either basic decency or life itself.
I suspect the reason dissent has yet to water itself with the blood of tyrants and patriots and grow into the great redwood that it usually does is that those founding fathers probably never even imagined the concept of a predator drone when talking about taking the country back should it be taken by blatantly evil men who border of super villainy in terms of how insane it is that they keep getting away from the good guy every fucking week. And much like a Batman comic YES I’M GOING HERE it’s always the same fucking conclusion every week. You can kill bruce wayne, cripple a young cosplaying girl and brutally murder a child but nothing ever really fucking changes about it. It’s the same song and dance played over and over again for reasons I cannot entirely understand other than the fact that while people are angry they are also stupid and fear the possibility of upsetting the status quo. Changing Batman’s costume, history and goals is about as fucking likely as any of these people going to prison is what I’m saying.
And while I’m on the subject of Batman yes he’s a shitty superhero, you don’t actually give a fuck about him as a character you just like the idea of beating people up without consequences because you’re grossly dissatisfied that you cannot do so in real life which, don’t worry, is something I can absolutely relate to you on even if I think Batman is about as interesting as erotic fan fiction because regardless of quality they’re both inherently self insert masturbation fantasies for nerds.
Before I got grossly off topic I had a point to make that my generation got saddled with a shitty deal, though arguably it’s much more of a gift horse than we’re giving it credit for as opposed to thinking of it as the shame stinking mule used for beastiality films though it’s easy enough to mistake it for that because that is exactly what it looks like. A used up, sad creature just waiting for some one to put a shotgun barrel to it’s head. And my generation is the one that has to ol’ yeller that poor abused mule, long dried up and all orifices as flaccid as an Arby’s sandwich. I’m sorry, Ted we’ll call him, I am sorry that people before me took what was once a proud pack mule and began to brutally rape it day in and day out for their own pleasure, and I’m sorry that those people got away scott free after they blew their last load in your ass, I am sorry that the public stood by and watched this happen with total and complete indifference if not taking pleasure in it as well but most of all I am sorry that we must be the ones to put you out of your misery. To give you something at least vaguely resembling a dignified end to an otherwise dreary and ugly life riddled with abuse. If you cannot tell at this point Ted the pornstar mule represents democracy as we know it.
Once my generation has successfully blown Ted’s head open and his remains are scattered about to return to the earth we have both a wonderful opportunity but also a terrifying one. The old way is dead and we know that bringing it back to life will only result in a more frightening zombie version of the same animal and the old problems will persist and we all know that zombies inevitably lead to an apocalypse. The problem there in lies finding a whole new system by which to live in which technology and, hopefully and if there is a god, human kindness leads to the promised land of virtue and equality for all living isms. That we should gear our technology away from weapons development, poisoning the earth and oppressing one another to a world where education is free to every human being, you will never go hungry and you always have a place to live with access to free drinking water. Theoretically we have the technology to accomplish, not all of this certainly, but enough give whoever follows us a bigger head start than we ever had.
Of course the difficulty of engineering an entirely new operating system for human civilization is like some one giving you a pile of lithium batteries, a screw driver and some plastic and then telling you to construct an iPhone. Sure we probably have a lot of the necessary tools and materials but how in the fuck do you go from a pile of junk to operational tool? That’s pretty much what me and every other young person is looking at, I’m sure we all thought when we were young that we’d coast by and the good times would last forever but it’s a fucking shock of ice water to your car battery connected testicles to know that the fate of human civilization rests on the generation that believes Kim Kardashian and Jersey Shore are worth dedicating thought to. Theoretically no other generation before us has been more equipped to fix many of the deficiencies of human life in an increasingly quick manner but then again they didn’t have suicide bombers and nuclear weapons either.
Posted May 22, 2012 at 10:34pm
