An Age

Looking back at everything I've posted, the subjects, the problems, all the emotional and verbal places I've gone, I just have to sit back and say, "What the fuck?"

What has happened to us?  I know that things got derailed somewhere but I just can't figure out where.

We are in a time where science, reason, and fact-based knowledge are under assault.

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published in 1859.  Life science, geology, every science related to the earth has proved and proved and super proved that this is the only reasonable explanation for the world around us.  And now, it seems, the push against it and for superstition is actually GAINING strength!!!  More people believe this creationism shit (in America), probably, than like 10 or 20 years ago!

Do you realize how bad this is?

It's bad, is the answer.

I had been pretty much OK with religion until, like, today.  That's kind of a hard sentence to follow.  The point at hand, though, is that this belief in God (or god) is giving motherfuckers an excuse to dismiss science and reason.  And while I was all psyched about the new, correct pope, and while I'm certainly moved by Buddhism, I'm fucking sorry, we can't be having this shit anymore.  It's too fucking important for the continued existence of mankind that we accept the statistical realities of the world we live in and adapt to the very present and obvious dangers that are confronting us.

And I'm fucking sorry, but finding inner peace, or turning the other cheek aren't going to fucking help us where we are now.  Living in the moment isn't good enough.  Forgiving isn't good enough.  Our lives are in danger motherfuckers!  Philosophy really fucking doesn't matter anymore either.  The numbers are key, and, they tell a story of how fucking fucked we really are.  Time to like, do something about it, man.

Time (a number) is running down to the point of our destruction.

If the Earth gets not-that-much-warmer-than-it-is-now on average humans aren't going to be able to live here anymore.

So, that's good.

It seems to me the only way we can pull all of our asses out of the fire, and hopefully, actually improve everyone's quality of life, is to fucking cooperate and drop the pretenses and dick show over who's the greatest.  IF WE ALL DIE WHO FUCKING CARES???!!!!

So anyway.  I know we can't just do that and just invent clean energy and just change everything all in one day.  I know that's impossible.  So I guess some of these lesser concerns are going to have to be addressed.  Damn it.

But we've got nothing but time.  Or should I say, that's all we have to do?  Anyway, let's go.  Let's do this.  Let's make everybody get along GOD DAMN IT!!!

Yeah.

Sincerely,

W. Giffs Afuckhh

another gigantic hoax, or, "let's get into the salt business!!" part ii

So here's another truly terrible, unacceptable argument, that you're going to hear repeatedly.

"Oh, (raising wages, paying for healthcare benefits, giving paid time off) is going to kill jobs.  The job creators won't be able to create more jobs if we do these things!!!  BLEGHHHHHHHH!!!!"

Here's my rough translation into the truth:

"Rich assholes (a.k.a. job creators, m.a.k.a. [more accurately known as] job minimizers) will cut low-paying jobs by the thousands rather than decrease their own ludicrous salaries or accept even a tiny hit to their ample profits."

Yeah, so, ok.  Let's take a nice look here.  So, by forcing you to pay your workers an amount close to what is needed to support a family, the guvmint is taking away your ability to create jobs?  Correct?

If that's true, then what kind of fucking country are we living in, man?  A free one?  No.

Another way to look at it might be, just for fun, maybe you should have less.  And maybe rather than you having millions upon millions of dollars, maybe you should just have millions, and a bunch more people could have a place to live.  Whaddya say?  OH, I know.  You say, I'm going to destroy you.  Well, let's fucking go, man.  I've got your fucking number!

Yeah.  Hey you know Fox News?  Know how they just say one thing, followed by a completely unconnected, and often contradictory thing?  They're not just providing misinformation.  No, they're throwing it at you in such mass and from so many directions that not only are you running on bullshit facts after you absorb it, but also, you can't even tell which issues are important and which ones aren't anymore.  You can't differentiate.  Given the time spent on, and degree of gravity assigned to, shit like Kim Kardashian or Justin Beaver.  As a neutral observer of humanity/the earth, based on coverage time, you wouldn't be able to tell which was more important, that, or genocide in Africa or Russian/ Ukranian conflicts, or universal health care, or anything.  It just makes you give up on understanding anything at all.

And that is why it is more powerful and dangerous than just peddling misinformation and halfheartedly making retractions where deemed absolutely necessary by law.  It goes beyond yellow journalism, I contend, it is more closely akin to brainwashing.  So, enjoy being brainwashed.  Of course, I suppose the same could be said of all media that's presented to us, at all.  But that's not what I'm talking about today.

I'm talking about the titanic lies that Fox News tells - and the unforgivable business of painting billionaires as the source of all things wonderful, and you fucking people should be grateful to them, for giving you jobs and money!  MOTHERFUCKERSSSSS!!!!!!

Doesn't that make tons of sense??  OF COURSE IT DOSE!!!!!!

Hey man, I think women who want to take birth control are just sluts, man.  They want us to pay for them to have sex.  (translation: i never have consensual sex and it's a source of frustration for me)

Those kids want school lunch?  THEIR PARENTS BETTER FUCKING BE ABLE TO PAY UP!!! We can't afford this shit!  With a budget deficit????  FUCK THOSE FUCKING KIDS!!!!!  BREGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bregh.

SO anyway.  This is what you have to win against.  Mind-numbing ubiquitous inaccurate information.

Good luck to you.