Mar

31

Let Them Eat Cake, She Said

March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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The words, “let them eat cake” have always been attributed to Marie Antoinette when a contemporary informed her the people were becoming restless over the imbalances of food and resource distribution in France. The elite had all they could ever possibly want, while the common people had virtually nothing.

Now to make the point clear here, she wasn’t inviting people in to partake of a party feast. Quite to the contrary, when she said “let them eat cake,” she was referring to dung cake. Thus, her response to the people’s unrest was basically, “eat shit and die!”

The elite viewed their life of luxury as something too good to give up, and as a result kept taking more and more, throwing the country into poverty. In the end they paid the piper when the people finally revolted and removed them from power and their precious lifestyle.

So now we’re being told the solution to our economic crisis is to do without. We must “conserve” as the prices keep going up and up and up. We’re encouraged to drive less, use less lighting in our homes, turn our thermostats way down, and take fewer vacations.

All of this while companies like Mobil/Exxon boast of their record profits quarter after quarter, and the CEOs of utility companies become millionaires. And there seems to be plenty of resources to throw into the great war machine to keep this whole elitist-class-glutting process going indefinitely.

It makes one wonder if “conservation” is just a new way of saying, “eat shit and die.”

It also makes one wonder how long the common folk will put up with it this time.

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Jan

31

5 Good Reasons to Mind Your Own Business

January 31, 2008 | 3 Comments

There seems to be a lot of concern over what everyone else is doing these days. While it’s good to have something to take a stand on, it’s not always a good idea to use your position to point fingers. Here’s some reasons why it’d be more beneficial to shut up and mind your own damn business:

1. Faith and Beliefs

What’s real to you may not necessarily be real to someone else. Miracles, doctrine and dogma belong to those who believe in them. People from other persuasions can attest to their own miracles, doctrine and dogma just as honestly and heart-felt as you can. So revel in the knowledge that you’re doing what you can to appease your god with your own life, and let others do the same.

Just remember this, there are no directions in any written word coming down from any deity that requires anyone to force others to comply. The only directives ever given were to make disciples, that is convince others to come along willingly. Apart from that, if someone is doing something you don’t like and it doesn’t effect your person, walk away and kick the dust off your sandals.

You will not be held accountable for other people’s actions. If you feel compelled, say what you have to say and let others make their own choices. If you’re right and they’re wrong, your deity will reward you for trying. Apart from that, if your deity feels that strongly against something, let him or her deal with it.

2. Words

Terminology is verbalized thought. It can have different meanings and significance depending on who’s saying it.

Unless its a brand name, no word can be claimed ownership of even if its mentioned in some sacred writing.

For example, the word marriage basically means “a union.” Beyond that it takes on whatever meaning the user wishes it to. If it means something more specific to you, great! But no one else should be forced to see it that way.

So if someone wants to marry their teddy bear, shut up about it. No one’s forcing you to acknowledge the marriage. If they come to your house and introduce their teddy bear as their spouse, you have the right to ask them to go home. In doing so you uphold your concept of the word’s sanctity and you can sleep easy next to your deity approved spouse knowing Mr and Mrs Bear will never come back to upset your apple cart again.

But if you see them together on the street, leaving them alone won’t get you in any trouble, nor will it demean your meaning of the word.

3. Perception

Considering that all the wars and acts of terrorism are due to the two points above, wouldn’t it make more sense as an advocate for peace and love, if you stopped being so hell-bent adamant about things?

We live in a universe where perception is everything. What one might be sure of today could change tomorrow especially when one gets faced with a random yet drastic change. Refusing to do so will leave you shallow, bigoted, and more of the problem than the solution. Remember, staunch means stubborn and stubborn means pig-headed.

Smile and the world smiles with you, lighten up and the world will smile on its own.

4. Backfire

Now there’s no reason not to be an advocate of whatever you want, but when you go off attacking advocates of other whatevers you stand a chance of it all backfiring on you. If you represent something, you’d want to do so in the best light possible.

Just in saying, “I am this, or I am that,” you’re promoting and representing. This should never be taken lightly! Doing it in a fashion that pisses people off will not win them over. Rather you’ll be prompting a resistance movement against your cause.

Besides, if you feel the need to force people to see things your way, perhaps it isn’t such a good way in the first place. Insist on it anyway, and you’ve made some serious enemies.

Oh and if you insist on trying to force people, please don’t call it persecution. It’s not. People are just fed up with you trying to sink your hooks into them.

5. Bigger Fish

We all live here on this planet together. There’s plenty of stuff that really does effect us all that needs attending to like global warming, hunger, dirty politics, disease, etc. . If you have to make something your business, then why not help out there?

And if your leader, guru, deity, or shaman gets mad at you, just tell them I forced you into it!

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Jan

29

A Question No One Seems to be Asking

January 29, 2008 | 6 Comments

Well Bush has given his final State of the Union speech. Let me repeat this because it sounds so sweet. His final! It seems like this would never get here, and I think America is breathing a sigh of relief, whether we admit it or not, knowing he leaves office at the end of this year.

But there’s a question no one seems to have asked any of those vying for his job.

He spoke about the Constitution like it was something dear to him, but we all know he, among all the presidents who’ve come before him, has done more to usurp the Constitution throughout his entire term in office than all combined.

So why isn’t anyone asking whether the candidates running for president are planning on relinquishing the “executive privileges” he invented to gain greater control over the country?

They’re all claiming to bring change, but are they willing to restore the Constitution and the balance of power between the executive and legislative branches of the government?

Seems like a fair question to ask, doesn’t it?

Whatever Bush has done to give more power to himself and his minions will carry over to the new president. Anyone who really, truly wants to bring change that’ll do any good to America should be willing to give them up.

To me, this would be issue #1.

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Jan

25

The Suspense is Killing Me

January 25, 2008 | 1 Comment

Now I understand that some game shows have to add a little suspense in order to make what goes on seem more exciting. But some of them take things a little too far if you ask me.

Not really sure when the “long pause for suspense” started or on what show, but I know when it started annoying me. Deal or No Deal! The waiting before opening the cases seemed to drag on just a little too long, but it was border-line tolerable albeit an annoying waste of air time.

But the other day I watched the new Moment of Truth show and found myself getting steamed by the female voice that said “that answer is … (30 second pause) … True.” I’d like to see them try that on the radio!

They never did make it to the “meatier” questions due to it taking so long between the contestant’s answers and the reveal. The first guy blew it after 11 questions, and the second guy had just gotten started when they ran out of time.

Sure they kept taking shots of the contestant, his wife, boss, and the audience to catch the facial expressions, but it really did drag on and on far too long. I mean some of the questions had obvious, human nature answers that didn’t really merit all that much suspense. But suspense we got ad nauseum.

It would have been far better to cut to the chase and really get these guys squirming over the tougher questions than to let everyone simmer over the answer to “Did you ever sneak a glimpse of another guy while taking a shower at the gym?”

Human nature would say “sure, why not?” Curiousity, lack of self confidence, ego could all be valid reasons why you would. Nothing embarrassing or suspenseful about that.

Who knows, maybe viewers like all this “holding your breath, edge of your chair” kind of stuff. And maybe it does really make it more exciting for the participants. But as far as I’m concerned, they could easily dispense with all the dead air space and get on with it.

I’d be interested to hear what you think.

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Sep

21

Hello Fellow Monkeys!

September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This is my first post here. Don’t really know what I’ll say on here, or where this is all going. After all, I’m just a talking monkey.

I do know that I’m getting sick and tired of people taking my bananas, so this might be about rantings against the Alphas who think they can take anything without another thought.

I’m also getting pretty dismayed over how my fellow monkeys are scared silly and hiding in their trees because some pseudo-sentries are doing their best to keep everyone paranoid about who or what’s lurking around in the tall grass nearby.

Or it could just be about how monkey-like we all are.

Dunno yet, so stay tuned!

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