Curmudgeonly Observations & Generalizations

• As we fight the enemies of our country, our government is transforming itself into the enemy of its own citizens. In an ironic twist, it will maneuver to consolidate power, until its enemies and its citizens are on the same side.
• Single individuals mostly kill for territory and power. Groups of people almost always kill for their belief systems. Paradigm clashes often provoke violent confrontation. People sufficiently alien to one another don't wage wars of extermination: cousins do. It requires sufficient similarity of paradigm for each side to fully comprehend what utter swine the others are.
• Corporations are "persons," under the law. They have many of the rights of natural people. They just have different motivations: inhuman ones. Essentially, they are a race of very powerful aliens who are not necessarily friendly to humans.
• The arch alien is the government. Governments exist only to govern. They don't much care whom they govern, as long as the governed shut up, work and pay.
• Governments are run by people with personal agendas. The people running a government -- or a corporation -- mostly act in the service of their own personal agendas. Congress is living proof.
• As I learned from a CIA agent friend, those who govern are driven by money: not ideology, not religion, not patriotism, not faith, not love, not loyalty, not an ethic of service. Money: Count on it.
• The only way to amass great wealth is to be obsessive about it. The price is your soul. The very wealthy are generally people who are very messed up by their obsession.
• Children are snapshots of their parents' souls. The children of the stinking rich are generally broken things, though never broken quite the same way the amassers of the wealth were.
• The stock market is run solely for the enrichment of the brokers and investment bankers. IPO's are all fixed. All of them. You are going to get screwed if you believe otherwise.
• In their professional role, lawyers are not to be trusted at all, ever. Sometimes you have to, but then you invariably get screwed, don't you? Oh yes: most politicians are lawyers.
• It is possible to manage benignly. You will not be thanked for it, so you must do it for its own sake.
• Girls are wired from birth to experience and evaluate their world in terms of relationship.
• Boys are wired to do stuff with things and to relate objects to one another and to their activities.
• Most guys consider sex to be a comfort issue. Give them fun and relief, and you are caring for them. With that need taken care of, they generally do not seek change.
• It is possible for guys to be altruistic as long as their seminal vesicles are empty.
• Few women really get this. Those who do are delightful and their men are easygoing.
• Males become interested in relationships for the sex. Only after they have felt the pain of loneliness do they begin to consider relationships seriously for their other benefits. Very precocious ones do this at, perhaps, 16; average is maybe 23. Many men I know will tell you that it was around 30 for them.
• Most women think of sex more seriously. Much of the background script involves sorting and choosing whom they will breed with. The lower the socio-economic level, the more the breeding imperative predominates. When you see the attitude, "I don't want your baby so you are nothing," in an adult, you are generally seeing trailer trash. Run away or repent having stayed.
• Political correctness, piety and ostentatious propriety are camouflage for hidden evil intent. Sometimes it can be held entirely at bay for a lifetime. More usually, it comes out when nobody is thought to be watching.
• People who obsess about others' morality or sexuality have serious skeletons in their own closets, always, always, always. Otherwise, other people's peccadilloes would have only limited entertainment value. Know theirs by their fixation on others' secrets.
• Certain groups of people are covertly amoral, as a general rule. (The exceptions being the overt ones):
• Adult children of alcoholics, junkies, speed freaks and members of certain religious sects are consistently pathological. Contact should be minimized.
• Stupid people think they are very, very, clever. The stupider, the cleverer.
• The "almost bright" tend to be enforcers of literal mindedness or otherwise spend a great deal of their attention on finding ways to demonstrate to themselves that they embody an elevated level of discriminating awareness.
• Very bright people are generally less convinced that they have the intellectual world by the tail.
• Uneducated people are often malicious troublemakers, as they lack the basic competence they would need in order to occupy themselves constructively. They generally hold themselves in very high esteem, indeed. You will know them by their pit bulls, large trucks, sleeveless garb and harmful behavior.
• Most people make themselves "little," as beings. Then they whine. You will not change them by talking to them: deep software intervention is all that works. Most folks are inherently "bigger" than they recognize.
• "Right brained," is a euphemism for "broken:" left brain, he no work too good.
• Many physicians know a great deal less than they would like to believe they do. We  have made them into a priesthood and they completely fell for it. This makes for poor listening skills and has been known to cause them to misestimate their patients.
• Kids tend to be savage. You have simply forgotten what cruel little bastards they can be. They have to suffer at the hands of peers, before they learn mercy. Aren't you glad you are bigger, now?
• Computers are a multiplier of sorts. Thus they make most people stupider.
• Okay, we've done women's rights: now what about men? Who dies younger, has the higher birth defect rate, sustains the bulk of occupational injury and constitutes 96% of the imprisoned? Who gets fed Ritalin to suppress their inherent nature? Who has a history of being subjected to ritual genital mutilation in the developed West? Look no farther, friends: it's your local "clueless, emotionally stunted, perpetrating" male. "Why are there no good men left?"
• Most people harbor a deep and well-founded metaphysical doubt that they truly exist. This is because of a fundamental misconception of the nature of self.
• Most money is made selling other people an identity to be, since they are fundamentally convinced that it comes from without.
• It is not your imagination: people who obstruct and delay others are doing so to have their existence acknowledged.

MIDI by K.Dane

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