Shit happens

[hobbes4star 0]

God, but watching the news is getting depressing. Every page and every channel is another reminder of something that pisses me off. Everybody has their own agenda and everybody has their own stupid message that they're screaming at the top of their lungs, but the noise is getting so loud that nobody hears anything any more. Have you ever heard the joke about how shit happens? It starts out that somebody has a good idea that will make a change, but as the idea is passed "up" its syntax becomes perverted until it becomes "shit." It's a cute joke, but It's not how shit happens. Shit happens because there are two kinds of people in the world: the silent majority and the vocal minority.
The silent majority are the people who are busy with the business of running their lives. They educate themselves, they employ themselves, they fall in love, get married, buy property, pay taxes and try to build a future for their posterity.
The vocal minority is every idiot with nothing better to do than start screaming about the particular bug that happens to be up his ass. By himself he's an anoyance. But put a few dozen of them together in front of a camera and suddenly they're a special interest group.
Of course, our fearless politicians, always eager for a sound bite and an opportunity to appear like they're doing something, welcome the chance to leap on a high profile, low importance bandwagon and get their name in the paper. Every piece of annoying legislation that has slithered its way onto the books has passed this way. And when the common man picks his nose up off the grindstone at election time the issues he has to decide on are meaningless to him. This is the origin of political correctness. This is the mentality of trying not to piss anyone off. This is how shit happens.

if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

[SpeedRacer 1]

hey are you just describing Speakers Corner, or what?


edited: quote from Animal House
Bluto: "My advice is to start drinking heavily."

Speed Racer
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[hobbes4star 0]

ii plead the 5th

if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

[rushmc 23]

Quote

hey are you just describing Speakers Corner, or what?


edited: quote from Animal House
Bluto: "My advice is to start drinking heavily."

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[masterrig 1]

What gets me is the fact that, folks pass along e-mails that voice their opinion or 'bitch' on a certain topic but, they don't really do anything about it. the one's with the real'bitch', organize and get out into the streets and raise awareness to their particular cause. I think, if, someone has a real problem or complaint... write your congressman, get others who have the same bitch or complaint and organize and be heard and seen. We have that right/privilage in this country to do so. Folks would also be getting good excersize marching. We just seem to take the easy way out and just 'forward' sensless crap over the internet. I guess, that's why we have 'Speakers Corner'!
Wow! I feel better!


Chuck