Who it is who really "matters"

Politicians, capitalists, aristocrats.
                                       Useless sods I tell you

All politicians do is play with other people's lives

All capitalists and the businesses they run do is fleece consumers in exchange for shoddy defective poorly-designed products

The real reason we need the arts is because art, literature and music have always been pretty much the only proof the world has ever had that it IS possible to actually accomplish something worthwhile

My experience has been that society is a kind of "Chinatown".

You constantly witness a lot of favoritism and double standards.  But you're supposed to act like you don't notice anything, even if those antics adversely affect you.
You're supposed to just keep quiet and tend to your own business.  Just let others run everything.  So long as you don't bother anyone society will allow you to remain "inconsequential".

However, if you raise your voice, or make a sound
...or, worse yet, get "greedy for gain" and attempt to "take command of" anything yourself they'll shut you down, label you a "nuisance", a "menace", or even a "threat".
As if allowing you even a modicum of free will guarantees you'll somehow "wreak some kind of terror somewhere".

Either stay out of the way and let others rule or risk being "responsible for" any and all evils.




          The above is my Musing For Today




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            Public and Commercial Spaces

...where everyone's in your face, shoving you aside while hogging space.

Then looking at you contemptuously and asking in a snarky manner "Could you move over a little more?"

You're already at the end of the table, up against the wall, in a pinhead-size space without even enough room to stretch out or stand up ...

Novelty Songs

get a bad rap.  They're treated by most pop music aficionados as "throwaway" entities, often categorized as being among "the worst records ever made".

SURFIN' BIRD, DISCO DUCK, Alvin and the Chipmunks, the Nutty Squirrels, AHAB THE ARAB and the like:  Songs like that are deliberately sophomoric, only intended for free-spirited amusement.  A reprieve from the usual romantic angst and topical social commentary fare of the average song.

Sort of like going on a picnic with a close friend.  Where you joke about bodily malfunctions and strange sexual obsessions and just all-around loosen up.

True intimacy is "never wanting to own an SUV or monster pick-up truck because they're the most impractical vehicles ever made and only pompous blowhards would ever desire to own one".

Everyday life and the world itself is so grave.  Everyone is a "king" and a "queen" and you're always the only "peasant".
Full of "those who drive SUVs and monster trucks".

Novelty songs are the entertainment fare of the free-thinking-and-free-spirited-at-heart.

The Officious Ones IV

Riding public transit anymore is a nerve-wracking experience, what with all the idiots shouting on their cell phones and, on top of that, all the prerecorded announcements blasting out of the public-address speakers mounted on the ceiling of the buses.

It's the stupid announcements, in particular, that impede one's train-of-thought.
One of them:  "Security is of top priority.  If you see anything suspicious or out of the ordinary please tell your operator about it.  Again: 'See something, say something'."

One of these times I'd like to, just as a joke, start badgering the bus driver:  "I'd like to report lewd behavior of one of the passengers.  I saw that man over there scratching his butt repeatedly."
"That woman on her cell phone.  She's talking loud and using profanity."
"The girl, sitting in the back.  She's chowing down a bag of potato chips.  Isn't there 'no eating on the bus'?"

I'm guessing my bus-riding privileges would last all of just-one-more-day if I actually started doing that shit.

I'm always so intrigued by the way judges give harsh/maximum sentences to certain individuals upon conviction of a crime to "make an example of" them.

You know it'll always be the type who are the easiest to take advantage of who'll receive those kind of sentences.
As if whatever happens to some "loser" will, in any way, have any kind of profound detrimental effect on the future actions of those of privilege or favor, or even of most "average" persons for that matter.

If some social outcast, who already receives the brunt of society's wrath anyway, gets fully slammed by the legal system it's not going to make any kind of impression one way or the other on those who are used to either being treated special or to those who are used to having friends or special interest groups who support and stand behind them.
It won't be enough to make any of them hesitate to act should any devious tendencies come over them at any point in time.

You have to figure:  Anytime any "average" person gets nailed by the police or receives a severe sentence in a courtroom there's the cry of "abuse of authority".  But when it's some social outcast or "oddball" type being dragged through the hot coals of the court system these same people are suddenly on the side of the "system" and the police (one reason I was never much impressed by the "Occupy" movement of a few years back).


     The above is my Musing For Today

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  ... the 21st century is NOT a period of wisdom, discretion, or discernment.