Gnarly Tuesday, that’s for sure. I’m ready to haul out the gatling gun. Everything is hitting me wrong today, and it’ll be a wonder if I get out of this without insulting a few million people.
At the moment I’m kicking myself for joining a certain Internet marketing membership site which I will soon be shed of, hallelujah. One of the founders of said site, a highly-paid consultant and social media guru, is at this moment on the ferry returning from Martha’s Vineyard and tweeting up a storm on his iPhone. He’s asking people what brands they love… I’m sure he means well, but geez. Do you get the picture? He’s on a boat, crossing ocean waters, not paying any attention to where he actually is. He’s probably a millionaire. A millionaire who doesn’t like to watch seagulls or scan the waves. You know, there are lots of different kinds of seagulls. And whether you see certain ones tells you something.
This is not my tribe. Why am I even paying attention?
And then we have all the people going misty-eyed over fake health care reform. I just have to stay away from this, what with so many folks believing there’s a pony in that pile. Deleted all my political blog bookmarks, in fact. I don’t know how many more marketing triumphs like this we can stand: no cheaper drugs, no cost controls, another direct pipeline from the Treasury for yet another industry…and major fines on top of other hardships for families and individuals who made painful, difficult decisions on how to best take care of themselves. “Yes, but there’s this pony in there…” And you could have had your pony without giving away the farm and agreeing to be fleeced! We “coulda been a contendah” on the world stage, but opted to be slaves. I honestly don’t get it. It just baffles me up one end and down the other.
[Sidebar: if you tweet that you're "hanging out with so-and-so," does that mean you're tapping on your phone while you're standing there talking to the guy?!? I will never do that to you...]
It takes such strength of character to stay centered and not let these things in. Do you have that problem? Today everything is driving right in through open garage doors. My stomach is in a knot. It seems that prevailing opinion on just about everything is, well, loony. “The economy is getting better,” etc. No, it’s not! 
(Read the non-mainstream financial blogs.) I’m surrounded by a field of mass hypnosis. Either that, or I’m the crazy one.
It doesn’t matter, though. I can’t help myself and neither can the rest. Therefore, I will stick to being me and let the rest of you be you.
Onward, chilluns! And especially me.
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I really don’t like the new automobile designs! All vehicles NEED A WORKABLE BUMPER. Your white car is very nice, but you can never be pushed. What the hell is the world coming to? Grumble, grumble, grumble.
Is this a real comment, or are you making fun of me for griping?
Anyway, thanks for stopping by. It’s like nobody is commenting any more. Weird!
i dunno – if there’s anything to Gibson’s observation that reality is shared consensual hallucination, I’d just as soon the masses hallucinate a world where i’m not a week away from abject starvation…
That’s what “reality” is, all right. Although I’d call it a shared agreement: you can’t walk through walls, etc.
What the masses will likely hallucinate soon is a world in which we’re all starving, but at least I’ll lose a little weight, hah. (Whatever you do, don’t read any non-mainstream financial blogs.)
My revived “I Want a Farm” theme has nothing to do with that, believe it or not–being more personal in origin–but is admirably well-suited for the occasion.
Politically, people are jubilant over a defeat of a great enemy; that’s why there is much rejoicing. Unfortunately, the left has also suffered a defeat, albeit a lesser one, and it’s going to be years before the magnitude of the defeat is clear.
Raven, yes, of course–they think the “great enemy” is the Republican party.
And I think the people have taken a huge blow. By bulwarking the all but bankrupt insurance companies and ensuring the failure of what this bill is allegedly trying to achieve, the whole idea of health care as a right will be discredited. When we discover how nothing has basically changed except that now nothing can ever be done about it, there will be hell to pay. Huge premium increases and lesser services are baked into this deal. It’s so sad. The public still has no idea. They seem to be expecting affordable insurance as a result!