Your Ass and a Hole in the Ground.

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I was going to say that I hate using the word ‘stupid’ but we all know that’s not true. I really like using the word but I really hate how people react when I do. They tell me that I’m being mean; they tell me that I’m not allowing for some cultural perspective or some other damn thing. Compassion and understanding, they coo, would be more productive.

Thanks, stupid!

I jest, of course. Those people aren’t stupid, they’re undergraduates. To be really stupid you must either have done graduate work (I resemble that remark), or be part of an opinion poll.

To that end, I stumbled across this;

“…65% of Americans agree with the idea that…corporations make too much profit…”

This didn’t surprise or alarm me too much, although it did make me want to slap the next kid I see wearing a 65$ Che Guevara tee shirt. What I thought this really meant is that most people feel that multi-nationals are making too much money but are not giving any of it to them, personally. On some non-rational level, I agree with this premise. After all, I’m confident that the board of Exxon Mobil could give me three billion dollars and not really suffer for it. As it is, they’d spend that quicker than my daughters snap to attention when Dora the Explorer is on.

Trivia; Ernesto “Che” Guevara is the maternal grandfather of Boots the Monkey.

Trivia #2; I’m woefully sick of Ernesto “Che” Guevara. This guy was Castro’s Dick Cheney and his most lasting legacy is selling apparel for capitalists who run sweatshops. Che Guevara sucks gun barrels and did about as much for universal human solidarity as scrotal eczema.

Further, from the same poll:

“…the public continues to link the strength of the country with the success of business. More than seven-in-ten agree that ‘the strength of this country today is mostly based on the success of American business…’ ”

I read this four times before I could stop twitching like a marmoset with an espresso addiction. Everywhere you turn on teh internets, someone will lambaste you with the wisdom of Critical Thinking. My background is in philosophy, and to me, Critical Thinking is to philosophy what taking your pants off and talking dirty is to sex. It sure helps, but it ain’t the whole production. Also, you should never do it alone.

Obviously, this reflects a bias of mine (as does my amazing auto erotic response to the sight of kitchen shears) but at least the critical thinking crowd is trying. At their best, they are as sharp as a thing that you would expect to be well… very, very sharp. At their worst, they become Sean Hannity.

Wow. That is much worse than they deserve.

Most people are in conflict and dislike what they require, precisely because they require it and it is not in their control. There’s probably a clinical term for this, but I’m just going to return to my flagship term; stupid. No one blames a bakery for hoarding flour, after all (unless it’s those damnable Keebler Elves – their stuff is laced with ground up pixie bones), but cash is always its own kind of strange.

Money is indeed a different story. While money may not be the root of all evil, it is the root of most greed – social greed most of all. Maybe what we really resent is that the uber-rich folks don’t do what we want with their stuff.

I assume that you need to live in a big, fat, rich country to bemoan that corporations – the engines of your prosperity – have too much money. I can easily see someone in a poor nation complaining that the rich nation next door has too much money, that makes sense – but I can’t imagine that they wouldn’t want to live there. When the guy across the street bought a new barbeque, I killed him, but it never occurred to me to try to live in his house – that would just be creepy.

People (particularly those who read No Logo and didn’t ask for the punch line) have a natural tendency to dislike corporations. But this tendency is natural; geeks hate the popular kids, the fugly people hate the hotties and the 23% of the American population who still support the President hate people who can read and aren’t married to a toothless first cousin.

Trivia #3: The President is so unpopular that when I started writing this, the number of people who supported him was at 26%

Trivia #4; I’m going to be murdered by an anarcho-syndicalist from Nashua, New Hampshire. His name will be Bryant, his girlfriend will be wearing a beret and his dad will either be a banker or sell commercial real estate.

I better hurry up and leave…

 

 

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