>
>> I can only tell you of life as I have experienced it. I obviously do not
>> live in the same world as you do. Did you read of what I said about
>> PERSONALITY? The biggest assholes I've ever know seem to do well in free
>> markets for instance [and they will own the talk shows to raise their
>> model
>> to the world]. But they will never see themselves as assholes, but
>> rationalize their personality as 'prowess' according to their material
>> successes.
>>
>> Spiritually, they are crud usually, bombast and confident, ready to
>> trample
>> the humble for sake of profit.
>>
>> To succeed today, one must have a very THICK BARK to deal with the zany
>> chaos of many egos clashing for better position in the pyramid. I am
>> happy
>> for you of course, that perhaps you have a personality type that you can
>> either ignore the cacaphony going on around you, or you are one of the
>> biggest bellowers of the tripe noise, and thusly are left alone to your
>> successes. Good for you.
>>
>> But look around too...who mans the produtions lines? Who cleans the
>> floors?
>> cuts the yards? Hauls the garbage? These are free peope also, in free
>> societies, doing the best given whatever circumstances have been dealt
>> them.
>> The pyramid grows geometrically the further you go down...and the numbers
>> become gargantuan. The disenfranchised just become invisible to the
>> affluent is all. May the best man win. That's the misbegotten
>> bullshit...no longer of any consequence. May the best man be buried in
>> the
>> salt mines to rot his living days away in hell...plotting how to even.
>
> Hey Tooly,
>
> Yes of course I read what you said about personalies. Heh did you read
> any of my post.
>
> In effect all I said was that by bleating about how unfair life i for
> the masses, you do us no favour, Instead if you really want to help
> the massess you would be better off proclaiming to us. 'You can do it,
> don't get mired in depression and whinge about how hard life is, yes it
> is hard, but you can change it, if you work hard at it'
>
> Do you really, I mean really, think that is an ignoble sentimant?
>
> As to you can only tell of life as you have experianced it, that I
> guess is at the root of your problem. You seem so caught up in your
> bad luck, that you cannot make your own luck, which is exactly what you
> have to do to make your way in life, that goes for all of us.
>
> You can of course put 'put your self in the other mans shoes' and that
> enables you to see things from anothers perspective. Try it it really
> does enrivh your life.
>
> In short, stop whingeing about how bad life is a go do something to
> make it better.
>
Ha, not trying to have the last word...
But what you say, I can't argue with.
I just read an article though, about a cancer patient who thought it was ok
to complain about his cancer [no I don't have cancer, but then, we are all
dying each in our own way, some more miserably than others]. I think most
of us can suffer to a degree and be 'courageous' about it. But there are
points of limitations. For one thing, our sense of justice. If it was
pestulence or something I felt was 'just deserve'...then I like those 30's
movies where everyone is cheery in the face of guns blazing at you. But it
is when I feel a sense of injustice that I feel a need to speak out, to
argue my case. Wrongness should not go unnoticed.
There is an old saying 'May the Best man Win'. Pragmatists today would
argue this is self defining, whomever 'wins' IS the better man. But I say
it remains that the better man is defined by specific criteria that is NOT
material in scope...the amount of a man's paycheck, how many storefronts he
owns, how many bank accounts he has...or in a new development as pornography
has gone mainstream, how big a man's cock is.
The virtues still count if you ask me. Honesty, integrity, compassion...all
the things that we traditionally once defined what the better man stood for,
as.
My complaint is not so much about myself, but I argue that the 'better man'
today cannot win, for we have discarded that traidtional model of human
being; traded it in on this new plastic, materially shallow, but worldly
model. You can no longer be very honest, nor does integrity seem to mean
much, and compassion can get you into lawsuits more than define you as the
better man. All the virtues now, are a hinderence to material success in
this world...material aggregation translating to sexual success, mating,
family, influence.
But I do see your point. If in a lifeboat adrift on the sea, you don't need
those belly aching about drowning. But, it still matters who captains the
boat however, who might assess what direction is the better one to survive
that sea. And that was my point here. We've traded in our models for
rappers, which influences the 'mean moving average' toward a much more
'chill out, rebel, non-comformist' kind of guy; who reject 'moral
consciousness' as ignorant backwoods stuff, and think along pragmatic 'Rhett
Butler' lines...to stay within the law, but only as the 'game' that is
played. Law that is not taken to heart is just 'rules' of someone's game
you know.
I blame white women really, and their change in sexuality and the partners
they now seek [just to throw a curve ball in here, ha].
