Another page straight from the diary of Sisyphus
I don't know what to do!  It's all driving me too shit-fucking crazy!!!

The non-stop parade of obstruction construction projects going on non-stop everywhere you look, for at least a good five years now, with no end in sight.
It's not just the noise (including the high-pitch "Chinese water tortures" of trucks and equipment when in reverse), but the blocks of excavations necessitating figuring out "detours" when walking or driving, not to mention having to walk blocks down the street just to find a bus stop that hasn't been temporarily put out of service.

Then there are all the things falling apart inside my apartment, including a wall panel on one end of my kitchen sink counter being loose, the fluorescent light in the closet burning out, "panel-eating disease" on the blinds of the bathroom window.
It's been but three years since they've finished fully rebuilding, refurbishing,  and remodeling this stupid building, and ever since it's been one thing after another coming unhinged---from the roof to the intercom system (which they're STILL coming around every three to six months to work on, again and again).

Now, I understand---one expects things to break down, wear out, or malfunction from time to time.  And for repair work or the erection of structures to cause inconveniences for a given period or time
...but not EVERY TIME I TURN AROUND, or NON-STOP 24/7 FOR MONTHS OR EVEN YEARS ON END!!!!

That's what has me so psychopathic and ready to go completely insane.  If a project lasts only so long, then finally finishes in a timely manner, and everything goes back to normal
...or one thing goes on the fritz, and you either replace it or do without
...that's to be expected.

But,if one thing after another keeps coming at you like some perverse game of dodgeball where you're "fair game" no matter where you "stand", and where there's never any lulls in or respite from the intense activities all around you, how can one hope to keep their head on their shoulder?
This shit MUST stop some time!!
Like, maybe ...Yesterday!!  
...or a year ago! ....

"Experts?"

The "experts"
...contend children who are raised by both parents are more likely to succeed in school and, later in life, more likely to go on to college and land higher-paying occupations and professions as opposed to children who experience their parents separating or divorcing, or who are raised by a single parent

My parents never divorced and stayed together, yet look at how fucked-up I turned out.  
Of course frequent knock-down fights and financial difficulties DO still manage to have their impact on the domestic climate, don't they?

The "experts"
...contend children raised by parents who are well-educated have a better chance at academic achievement than children raised by parents with little or no education

My parents were college drop-outs but were musicians who also worked various unrelated odd jobs
...and I'm a high school drop-out with a G.E.D. who could never finish even one quarter of any 2-year college curriculum, spent most of my life working minimum-wage jobs in between bouts of homelessness

The "experts"
...contend children brought up in lower-income environments are the ones most likely at risk for experiencing domestic abuse or witnessing spousal abuse between their parents

I remember a news story from years ago about a prominent physician from a prosperous Jewish neighborhood in the New York City area who was facing trial on multiple domestic abuse and felonious assault charges stemming from years of routinely viciously battering his wife and children---in addition to subjecting them to extreme emotional abuses.
So much for financial, academic, and marital status being reliable barometers for determining a child's potential outcome in life.

The "experts"
...are experts at pigeonholing everything and everyone, and at patronizing whatever the current trendy narratives happen to be at the time.

In a different subset world

Listening to a weekly "Somewhere In Time" edition last Saturday night (rerun of an early original "Coast to Coast" with creator/original host Art Bell)


Caller: ...Can I just say, you seem like you're a well-educated guy.  I listen to all these other talk-show hosts and a lot of them seem so ignorant and narrow-minded.  But you come across as being so knowledgeable.

Art Bell:  Well, I did do a couple years of college.  However, most of what I've learned in life comes from all the traveling around I've done, from visiting other countries and absorbing some of the cultures of each one---and I've held down many different types of jobs over the years as well, in all sorts of areas.
So I think having been exposed to so many different environments is, in large part, responsible for having broadened my perspective, enabled me to look at everything from all angles----a lot more than one could do by strictly learning about the world from textbooks.  At least I'd like to think so, anyway.

Now, I'm not putting down higher education by any means, mind you.  I think there is immense value to getting a college education and to getting a degree.  I just don't believe it should be the only avenue one takes to acquire a well-rounded knowledge of the world.

I've known folks who went on to further their education, and got their degrees---their Masters and PhD.  And years later I would meet up with them again, and I would notice "something missing" about them.  Like they weren't able to function at everyday life in a normal way, and had problems relating to the average person.  As if, when taken outside the academic environment they seemed kind of "lost"
...like they've become "socially disabled" from spending so many years of their life mostly inside an academic environment ....


Personally I think this to be essentially true of all of us.
We're all "socially disabled" to a large extent because of the domestic and demographic influences we've allowed ourselves to be limited to most of our lives.
The only people who make sense to us are either "our own kind" or those who express attitudes or opinions similar to our own.
You'll always notice having to be around "just anyone else" whose conversations drift off into subject matters we have no concern about or interest in for any length of time tends to make us a bit "antsy", ready to excuse ourselves and move on.

Isn't the "Abortion" issue really a relatively simple one to solve?

Like: Don't get pregnant in the first place

>Teach the boyfriends what a condom is, how to use it, and what purpose it serves

>Don't engage in full-fledged sex if you don't desire children, or are not in a position financially or socially to accommodate them and the sacrificial care their existence entails

>Teach the girls that "No!" can also apply to their boyfriend just as much so as it can to "strange creepy guys" (or incestuous relatives).  If their lover threatens to end the relationship just over that he wasn't worth hanging on to anyway

Kudos to the "Pro-Choice" crowd for their efforts at population control (that IS their primary motive, isn't it?)

Kudos to the "Pro-Life" crowd for reiterating the concept of "personal moral responsibility" over being narcissistic, infantile and ephemeral with one's adult desires

It always amuses me the way normal people keep going on and on about "liberties", "freedom", "personal rights", and "one's right to choose"

...then sell themselves out to the social construct:
>Everyone wears the same clothes and styles
>Everyone "has to" get their tattoos
>Everyone has an iPhone or SmartPhone
>Everyone's personal vehicle is either a "jelly bean" shaped compact car, an S.U.V., or "monster-sized" pickup truck.  And every make and model of each type of vehicle all have the same features and same dimensions
>Everyone is a caricature of their ethnic ancestry, their gender, their social class, their academic level, their sexual preference, their political beliefs, their religious affiliation, their idealism, their subcultural affiliations
>Everyone watches the same latest movies, the same current television shows, and listens to the same latest popular music
>Everyone is obsessed with 24/7 sports and the current crop of "idol" professional and college athletes and coaches
>Everyone is constantly fixated on currently popular famous "idol" entertainers
>Everyone is obsessed with politics and politicians
>Everyone gravitates to current social trends like they were the "gospel" on how to live and behave
>No-one ever notices the parallels between the present social climate and what's happened in the past

                                             Musing For Today
One of my recent trips to the coin laundry was a brief nightmare at the start.

When depositing quarters into the washer they kept getting stuck, and as I kept hammering the side of the coin box the attendant came over, stating "You don't have to hit it", then kept pressing the coin return to retrieve each quarter that kept getting stuck, displaying the algebraic techniques and procedures necessary for performing the complicated task of getting a coin washer started.  She was even "generous" enough to allow me to put the last two quarters in myself ("You just need two more quarters now").

Any casual observer would have wagered on it being my very first trip to a coin laundry.  
Amazing how a machine can reduce one's intelligence by 100 I.Q. points by simply being "uncooperative", as apparently "it has to be something I'M doing wrong" to cause such issues.  Maybe I'm just retarded, or just "don't know what the fuck I'm doing".

Fortunately my luck with the dryer was much better:
Lay down dryer sheets, transfer freshly washed threads from washer to dryer, set mode (high heat), close door, insert dollar coin, press "start"
...all went off without a hitch.  My intelligence level raised back up 100 I.Q. points.

Two days later I have to return to the same coin laundry.  Same attendant at the counter ("Uh-oh!").
Grudgingly, I put detergent in the washer basin, load the clothes, shut the lid, then pull out my change bag and grab a handful of quarters
...using a different machine now, I feed the first quarter in:  "Plunk!"---just "flew down the chute" like it was "greased on the inside".  Smo-o-o-o-th!!  I followed with the rest of the quarters---they also just "slid down", without a hitch.  EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM!!!  The "select cycle" light blinks, I select "colors" (warm wash, cold rinse), press button
I'm elated!!!  My I.Q. level is now shown to be on the up-and-up.  I "know what I'm doing" once again, just like all the other times before.  I'm, once more, "knowledgeable" and "competent".

It's amazing the power appliances and gadgets have over our souls:
When they malfunction in our hands they show us up as being "ignorant and stupid fuck-ups who don't know what the hell we're doing" or as being "too inept to figure out how to properly use the settings or applications".
When they perform flawlessly and function smoothly (as programmed/promised) in our hands they verify our abilities and aptitude for figuring things out on our own, as well as our level of knowledge, our competence and reliability.

I realize how much our own level of intelligence and our abilities are gauged by how well our machines, appliances, and gadgets are able to perform when it's OUR hands pressing the button, flicking the switches, or turning the knobs.

Another argument against the advent of a Cashless Society:
The interest charged on every transaction done with a credit or debit card

Honestly!!!!  15% or 20% interest
...on a $12 meal at a restaurant, or on a $30 Mr. Coffee coffee-maker???

And to think, 22 years ago, the first time I witnessed someone actually purchasing a six-pack of beer with a credit card I literally fell on the floor of the convenience store laughing my ass off.





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The Police

Highly Paid Professionals

CEOs

Business Owners

Authority Figures (in general)

Politicians

Physically Attractive "Trophy Cunt" Girls and Women

Domineering "Alpha" Males/"White Knights"

Celebrities

Media Moguls

Highest Ranking Military Officers

Professional and College Athletes and Coaches

Academia

"Soccer Moms"

"Trust Fund" Babies (/Offspring)


...the above have managed to successfully achieve what the Nazi's aspired to during their 12-year reign (from 1933 to 1945) but, alas, could only dream of attaining
...each and every one are indisputably the "Master Races" of all humanity!!!!

                        SHARE THE ROAD
                        MOTORISTS, BICYCLISTS, e-SCOOTERS

If we all band together we can do an even better job terrorizing and intimidating pedestrians:

Motorists  can run them over in the crosswalks and parking lots


Bicyclists and e-Scooters  can run them off the sidewalks and onto the curb, lawns, or the side of buildings

Let's show those worthless dregs on foot who's REALLY "boss of commuters"

                                            Adages For Today
You should never hold another responsible for anything they may do or say while drunk, antagonized, traumatized, or outraged



If we were to judge the weather the same way we do other people then the next time we had to suffer a major storm we would be vowing to "never again venture outside"