Musing For Today
While walking around the other day I had a guy pass me by on a bicycle wearing a pair of BOSE headphones.

I, for one, would never THINK to ride around in public with a $150 pair of headphones on my head, considering how dangerous U.S. society can be and the kinds of situations one could find oneself in.

Obviously this guy must have money to burn to be so comfortable doing such a dumb-ass shit thing with total abandon and self-assured unawareness.

                                            Asking Too Much
For those of you who may think I'm being "too demanding" whenever I ask the slightest favor or make the simplest request:

At least you never feel a knife at your throat or a gun to your head when I ask for anything

You won't see a group of roughneck types standing around me ready to "break your arms and legs" should you refuse my requests

And it's not like there are any laws backing me up in any way wherein you stand to be arrested, fined, or sued for refusing to comply with my wishes.

The ones who are threatening and dominating seem to be the "normal" and "respectable" types.  The ones who "need to be protected from" the "predators", yet are themselves quite bossy and controlling.  And quite smug and self-assured.  The ones "deputized" to be "in command", who always get to be "right all the time", all in spite of their propensity for being so easily "victimized" any time another manages to "get one up on them".

Not to mention it's these "normal" persons who are always backed up and supported by the laws, courts, and authorities.

Is Me Too Speculative For My Own Good?
What gets me about a lot of the "Me Too" crowd:
A lot of them seem to be the kind who would beat someone up for insulting their best friend
...or the kind who probably drive aggressively, disregarding essential traffic safety laws as it suits them
...or the "gossipy" type, given to all manner of slanders, defamation of others, and passing judgment on others based solely on various canards
...domineering, bossy, entitled and demanding of others, hostile and abusive

...while still expecting "moral perfection" from everyone else around them.

It's this hypocrisy that most bothers me about this movement, not any discounting on my part of a lot of the accounts being valid----although I'm sure there IS also plenty of hyperbole and misunderstandings (on the part of the victim) in some of the claims as well.

                                                     In Theory
You ever notice that the best things in the world are often short-lived?  The Beatles, WKNR "Keener 13" in Dearborn/Detroit, Mozart, the Renaissance?

I have my own anecdotal theory on why this is:
You see, anything of high quality requires whoever's producing it to go all the way to create and maintain it.
But that such perfectionism is so taxing it leads to eventual exhaustion.
They use only the best materials, which, being more expensive, can tax one's finances to the point of depletion.
A perfect production takes a lot of planning, rehearsing, and editing and reediting---costing a lot of time, money and effort.
Presentation takes a lot of creativity, stamina, and analysis---also quite taxing as well.

What ends up happening is an eventual state of chronic "burnout", when maintaining first-rate quality becomes a bigger chore than the project itself is actually worth, or what one is getting in return for one's own efforts (and investments).

One of two things happen:  either the project is suddenly discontinued
...or it does continue, but the quality gradually and incrementally diminishes.

The anatomy of a society

Lawmakers
The ultimate pharisees.  They make "official" the beliefs, dogmas, and prejudices of the given culture as well as whatever current trendy prejudices and dogmas the "majority" has recently adapted

Civilian Soldiers
The hatchetmen who enforce and carry out the will of the majority, the favored, the privileged, all the "normals".
The ones who track down and punish and/or banish the heretics, outcasts, unwanted and undesirable groups and individuals on behalf of both the "normals" and social protocols of the established "system" of their society

Judges
Modern-day "Pilates".  They make the final decisions on what to do with or how to handle the dissidents, always catering to the pharisees, the majority and the civilian soldiers and proper authorities

The Majority
The rabble, the plebeians, the elitists, and the upper echelon who unofficially "rule" their societies even though they're supposed to be the "common" citizens.  And always at the expense of the outcasts and dissidents.

                                        Musing For Today
I'm not so sure about the "Me Too" movement.
It's hard not to have feelings of ambivalence toward it.  The underlying gist of it seems rational enough.

Then again, how much credence should one give to what's essentially a cult movement started by a band of upper echelon "trophy" bitches who, in spite of any adverse situations they may have endured at the hands of despotic wealthy bosses who were able to extort and/or blackmail them into performing sexual favors for them, are still nonetheless themselves enjoying plenty of wealth and prosperity and enviably lavish existences and extraordinary high status?

Am I to believe (as in the case of a few of them) that anyone's life can actually be "permanently ruined" by a mere unwanted brush on the leg, of by a "suggestive" pat on the shoulder?

It'll forever intrigue me how most people are always so shocked any time it's shown it's possible to subvert the sexual realm.
What's so hard to accept about that?
People routinely subvert just about everything else:  politics; social interactions; arts and entertainment; the media; economics; business; industry; education; modes of transportation; literature; authority; the laws; the court systems; regulations; public and commercial services; charities; the medical field; science; religion ....

The problem with everyone's perception of the sexual realm is that they think it exists in a vacuum, in a separate world all its own.
But the reality is the sexual realm is simply just another element of existence.  Another integral part of everything else that exists in the world.   And, all things "being relative", anything that can be done in or to any other realm can also be done in or to the sexual realm as well.

In short, while the world is busy being distracted by this "sexual harassment" red herring, other (more critical and important, but unrelated) matters that deserve equal---if not more---attention will wind up not even being "on the radar".

                                          Adage For Today
                                    Everyday life is like a daily trip to Lowe's or Home Depot
                                                      ...you have to do-it-all-yourself