Theorizing off the cuff, so here goes
It is a bumpy ride, so hang on and like life it has no point.
“It is just a ride.”
– Bill Hicks
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It is a systemic problem to a systematic solution
However, the collective wants it fixed without participation
To my best understanding things don’t work like that
The image/meme inspiring this rant is from Facebook
Of a picture of Ellen Degeneress with words over it saying
Liberals don’t mind her making 35 million a year but scoff
At a CEO making 5 million employing 5 thousand people
A good point perhaps yet it only scratches the surface
Which really has nothing to do with either Ellen or the CEO
Based on the “context” seems to be a tax the rich reference
Or perhaps how is it justified one person makes so much
Fortunately or unfortunately it is based on consumption
Artists and or (I hate to say it) pro athletes, earn their keep
Even those goofballs that drive aimlessly around an oval
“I want to be a race car passenger, just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down.
Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide…”
– Mitch Hedberg
Or one of my favorites the comedy of the Howard Stern show
All getting paid well for exactly what the market will bear
To my best understanding as I have no income insight
No one is plucked from obscurity and given those careers
They’ve put in their *outlier requisite ten thousand hours
In my perception doing what they’d rather be doing for pay
Likewise the CEO making 5 million employing 5 thousand people
The difference is he or she is not sponsored by consumables
(You can bet some bean counter can explain the high salaries)
Therefore in the grand scheme of things is not “producing”
The revenue justified to make that kind of big 5m money
It is intetchangeable with other people who can do that
Perhaps not always but probably in most ceo cases
Whether it be Ellen, Howard, Oprah, Dale Jr or Brett Farve
The products they move employ a lot more than 5 thousand
All well tracked by statisticians and more bean counters
If you listen and watch carefully, the bigger the audience
The higher the margin there is on the products sold
Paid for by Joe and Jane Q public buying because thought
Is not required to make impulse buys due to clever marketing
The “celebrity” is getting paid more and employs more people
The consumers buy the products sponsoring the entertainment
Take a bag of potato chips (not mine, get your own) thank you
A retail ten pounds sack of potatoes sells for about three dollars
Think of what large corporations get it for wholesale in bulk
A one once bag of potato chips sells for about a dollar give or take
Minus the cost of processing packaging distribution and advertising
There is maybe fifteen cents of actual product in and including the bag
Still there is a whole host of people getting paid in the process
Backwards. The clerk selling it, the stockperson who put it on the shelf
The distributor who bought it to the store, the driver from the warehouse
The driver who picked it up from the potato chip maker who received
The potatoes from the farm after it was grown and harvested
In between all of that, the diesel that was used to move everything
The trailers tractors farm equipment buildings and roads that all
Employed lots of people up and down the line for a simple bag of chips
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This is where it really goes off the rails
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A couple of other products of which their retail pricing
Have me flabbergasted beyond realistic comprehension
Is underwear and bed sheets sold like they were gold
Hyped up to do things unimaginable by simple cotton
Commoditized to the point they can be purchased “cheap”
Say nineteen or so dollars for six pair of comfy underwear
But why do that when a branded pair sells for thirty dollars
Making that one hundred and eighty dollars for six pair whew
Easily coughing up to help pay for the celebrity endorsement
Same goes for the sheets I hear perpetually advertised
What can normally be purchased for about fifty dollars
The ad goes if you act now and mention a tracking code
You can get fifty dollars off, holy #uck, they must be free
Nope, try close to two hundred and fifty discounted to
Two hundred smackaroos on the exaggerated claim
You will get the best sleep ever, like God on the “seventh” day
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Time to get back on track
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I doubt I’m worth the “money” I “make”, yet it is what
“They” pay me for Looking At The World Through A Windshield
Getting paid to sit in an air ride seat in a comfortable cubicle
Listening to the satellite radio, ipod, audio books and comedy
Driving up to 135,000 miles a year and enjoying 99% of it
Storing and compartmentalizing this to write down later
“Whatever, don’t do shit you hate. People work jobs they hate. There’s another way. Whatever it is you do… Fuckin’ quit. Go in on Monday and steal a bunch of shit, and quit. If you don’t absolutely love it, if you wouldn’t do it for free… Quit.”
– Doug Stanhope
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As for the participation balance of everyone’s taxes
I think everyone can agree the system is #ucked up bad
Yet it goes on in the illusionary perception that should somebody
Who thinks the system could be revised more equitably
Might might just be able to make that much money
And enjoy the perks of a corrupt system that has people
Watching the homeless on the streets from high ivory towers
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“Life in two dimensions
Is a mass production scheme
So much poison in power
The principles get left out
So much mind on the matter
The spirit gets forgotten about”
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“Grand Designs”
– Rush
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* “Outliers”
– Malcolm Gladwell
A simpler time
Is not possible
When we are
Gluttonous
For chaos
“Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy.
However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.”
– George Carlin
Internal apathy
Is growing
Must abort
Before it
Develops
Into
Full fledged
Carelessness
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“I’ve cared about other stuff,
And, yeah, me not caring about
Stuff, will, affect it as much
As me caring about stuff, which
Is none.”
– Doug Stanhope
Always a little strange to see
Airplane bodies shipped by rail
Or train wheels shipped by truck
Automobiles by ship I understand
Otherwise we’d need really long
Bridges and lots and lots of drivers
Next Day Air not delivered by planes
As long as I’m making dopey observations
Grain in an elevator descends by gravity
Have been unintentionally sequestered
From the radio and television
And it feels great
Feels like a mind cleanse
Depression and anger
Have been lifted
Well depression anyway
“Don’t trust anyone who isn’t angry.”
– John Trudell
The most blatant
In your face
Through your ear
Stark naked
Digitally recorded
Play back able
Slow down able
Provable lie
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“Tim Cook Apple”
– 45
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On Eminem’s best day, he couldn’t say that so fast, that if you slowed it down you wouldn’t be able to decipher “Cook”.
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“Republican donors in attendance called it one of Trump’s weirdest lies ever. On Friday night, under a tent erected over the pool at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, President Trump claimed the media were spreading “fake news” when they said he called the CEO of Apple “Tim Apple.”
Trump told the donors that he actually said “Tim Cook Apple” really fast, and the “Cook” part of the sentence was soft. But all you heard from the “fake news,” he said, was “Tim Apple.”
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Two donors who were there told me they couldn’t understand why the president would make such a claim given the whole thing is captured on video. Nobody cared, they said, and Tim Cook took it in good humor by changing his Twitter profile to Tim Apple.
“I just thought, why would you lie about that,” one of the donors told me. “It doesn’t even matter!”
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I guess it only matters ’cause people believe, what they want to believe.
Must be some kind of mystical adhesive that coagulates the atoms, protons and neutrons, derived further from subatomic particles like quarks and neutrinos (that are indeterminible waves or particles) into what appears to be an ego self in the form of a humanoid, deluding itself that it is separate from the whole.
Wasting its infinite power on accepting audible emanations from a human (made up of the same “stuff”) whose inflated, fragile and heightened narcissistic ego leads some to believe everything that collection of congregated cells says.
Crowd size
A wall will protect us
A travel ban is necessary
Caravans are coming
Tax “cuts” that don’t benefit the wealthy
No collusion
Total exoneration
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But, when in doubt check the dictionary.
Perhaps there was no collusion. I’ll accept that.
Collusion : secret cooperation for an illegal or dishonest purpose
– m-w.com
Everything has been done out in the open.
“Russia, if you’re listening”
– Individual # 1
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“There is just enough bullshit to hold things together in this country.
Bullshit is the glue, that binds us as a nation. Where would we be without our safe, familiar, American bullshit?
Land of the free, home of the brave, the American dream, all men are equal, justice is blind, the press is free, your vote counts, business is honest, the good guys win, the police are on your side, god is watching you, your standard of living will never decline… and everything is going to be just fine—
The official national bullshit story. I call it the American okie doke. Every one, every one of those items is provably untrue at one level or another, but we believe them because they’re pounded into our heads from the time we’re children.
That’s what they do with that kind of thing—pound it into the heads of kids, ‘cause they know the children are much too young to be able to muster an intellectual defense against a sophisticated idea like that, and they know that up to a certain age children believe everything their parents tell them.
And as a result, they never learn to question things. Nobody questions things in this country anymore.
Nobody questions it—everybody is too fat and happy. Everybody’s got a cell phone that’ll make pancakes and rub their balls now— Way too fucking prosperous for our own good. Way too fucking prosperous,
Americans have been bought off and silenced by toys and gizmos. And no one learns to question things.”
– George Carlin
No one is “Above the law”
As it is no longer effective
Makes it a concrete cliché
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As long as everyone else is speculating
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Allegedly
No one is
“Above the law”
Perhaps
However
It appears
No one is below
Being
“On the take”
Not sure if it was
Mueller or Barr
Who threw up
The invisible
Jump ball
Which seems
To be in play
While the “ball”
Is locked up
Still everyone
Is positing
From their
Perspective
To declare
They are
“Winning”
The game
Even though
There is no ball
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When you see
The turn of the (r)’s
In a split screen
Past and present
Commentary
One can’t help
But think
Someone
Got to them too*
McConnell
Graham
Come to mind first
Oddly instant
Lapdogs
Terrified to
Speak
Up or out over
Trump’s
Transgressions
Really
Is that WJWD
Such
Convenient Christians
Capitulating
To chaos
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Evident and apparent
Was Barrs
Loyalty
“Coincidentally”
Confirmed
Even though
He did what he
Suggested
The outcome
Would be
When objectively
Recusal
Was most “right”
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The evidence
The cover up
The deception
The distraction
Are all visible
In plain sight
From day one
Plus two years
Prior to that
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What are we
Fucking
Stupid
We will
Never know
The scope
Of deceit
For it
Rode in on a
Translucent
Trojan
Disguised to
Discombobulate
In the form of
Dichotomy of the
Crowd size
Caravans
Health care
Wasted wall
Wailing
Cheesy chants
Election meddling
Media manipulation
Tax cuts
For the who
Nope
Not you
Keeping most
“Floundering around,
While the big grab
Goes on in
Washington and
Moscow”
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Ol’ Bull
“On The Road”
Jack Kerouac
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“It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don’t want that.
I’m talking about the real owners now.
The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.
Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant.
The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice.
You don’t.
You have no choice.
You have owners.
They own you.
They own everything.
They own all the important land.
They own, and control the corporations.
They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.
They’ve got you by the balls.”
– George Carlin
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Whaddayaknow
The Fox
Is guarding the
White house
Making sure the
Malignant Manchurian
Remembers his lines
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No collusion
No obstruction
Total exoneration
Total bullshit
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The subtle hype
Of Bob Mueller
Suspended
Disbelief
For a time
That
“Justice”
Might be served
From overwhelming
Overt evidence
But alas
Like
Bush and Cheney
Scott free
Is how
Individual # 1
Is going
To get off
Not to be
Conspiratorial
But if the
Top banana
Can be gotten to
Second bananas
Can’t be far behind
Not to mention
The rotten
Bananas
Decaying decency
Perhaps
Even the
Inspector of
The banana
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“I have this feeling man, ’cause you know, it’s just a handful of people who run everything, you know … that’s true, it’s provable. It’s not … I’m not a fucking conspiracy nut, it’s provable.
A handful, a very small elite, run and own these corporations, which include the mainstream media.
“I have this feeling that whoever is elected president, like (Bill) Clinton was, no matter what you promise on the campaign trail – blah, blah, blah – when you win, you go into this smoke-filled room with the twelve industrialist capitalist scum-fucks who got you in there.
And you’re in this smoky room, and this little film screen comes down … and a big guy with a cigar goes, “Roll the film.”
And it’s a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you’ve never seen before … that looks suspiciously like it’s from the grassy knoll.
And then the screen goes up and the lights come up, and they go to the new president,
“Any questions?”
“Er, just what my agenda is.”
“First we bomb Baghdad.”
“You got it …”
Lift sanctions
While keeping everyone fighting amongst themselves, consuming at a gluttonous pace, keeping the economy afloat till you get out of office.
– Bill Hicks
“Not sure if it happened like that, but a boy can dream”
– Joe Rogan
