Tuesday, March 9, 2004

Middle-Class White Girls Are Either Boring, Or Disgusting

I hate to say it, but there is a lot of evidence that middle-class white girls are even more boring than middle-class white boys.

I thought for a time that most middle-class white kids are boring as hell.  They are bland, drab, potato salad types who hold lawn mower contests in their parents' backyards and major in English literature.

Then I realized that many of them seem to feel the same way about their own selves.  They too thought their own middle-class white culture to be sorely lacking in the enrichment department.

So how did they choose to mitigate these odd circumstances?  How did they decide the make themselves fascinating and dynamic?  Ummm...  They become "goth" or "punk" kids and get weird tattoos and piercings in private places.  They eschew their comfortable, charmed upbringings with all the privileges offered therein.  They rebuke the morals and values their parents instilled in them in their stable, two-parent homes.  They develop chemical dependencies.

Then I came to my senses and realized, wait a minute.  None of that is truly what one might call "interesting."  They have skipped right over the actually fascinating, interesting, respectful qualities that they could have embraced -- and instead dove right into disgusting territory.  It is a disgusting, self-destructive mess.

Sure, there is plenty of crap about them trying to prove themselves "badass," which mostly involves self-destructive delinquency.  But they don't know how to actually be intelligent or contributing anything positive and useful to society.  They don't know how to do anything interesting or fascinating unto themselves.  They are not intense or dynamic.

Go traveling, find out more about your own heritage and ancestral culture.  And even travel around the world__  gain firsthand [[expereince_ exposure to differen famiyl dynaimcs, see the divesrity,,,

When you travel and see different diverse cultures, you will see that many of the same universal tenets are reflected in them all.  Such as the nuclear family dynamic, and the fact that healthy whole societies are built upon the two-parent home.  And you will also observe that less healthy, less___ cultures often lack these pillars that are supposed to support humanity._]] expanding your worldview and being able to visualize the entire world because you have learned about many corners of it.

It will start to strengthen your convictions and your morals.  You will have a stronger sense of right and wrong.  This will give you the strength of mind not to fall for any Johnny-come-lately new psychology babble that tries to tell people that morals are outdated.  This is because you will see that certain universal truths about humanity transcend skin color, climate, geography, genre of music, style of dress, cuisine.  At least they do among the civilized societies of the world.

As for "deviance" being only what a culture labels as unacceptable, that is oversimplification hogwash. Most civilized societies agree on many things. Criminal acts are seen as wrong and cruel in all civilized, gentrified societies.  I feel sorely sorry for those societies that do not think so. Apparently, those societies do not want to get better.

Start your own engineering firm and do something positive for society?  Yeah, right!  Graduate from college with a degree in biochemical engineering?  Guffaw!  Learn to cook healthy food for yourself rather than relying on McDonald's, thereby taking charge of your own health and well-being so that you can genuinely have body confidence?  Freakin entertaining!  Start working right out of high school and then in a few years open your own business?  Hilarious!

No, they do not want to be genuinely interesting.  This is because like most middle-class white kids, middle-class white girls are lazy and spoiled.  And see, the thing is, the above-mentioned methods of making one's life interesting take a lot of work.  Like I said, liberal middle-class white girls hate doing any kind of honest, legitimate work.  They refuse to put in the effort, refuse to make the necessary sacrifices to their clubbing and partying.

They can, however, have sex with other people who might be interesting!!

So they only way they can define their own interesting-ness is through being sexually deviant.  I.e., by defining themselves vicariously through others, through their sex partners.
The weirder and more numerous their sex partners are, they interpret this as making themselves interesting.

Rather than traveling and learning about different cultures yourself, be liberal and screw a bunch of dudes from different cultures!  Sure!  Multiple males of different races?  Sure!  A weird tattooed pierced freak, sure!  An alcoholic abusive social degenerate, sure!  Multiple males, sure!  Or the females define themselves through the amount of abuse they put themselves through-- drug/cigarette abuse, alcohol abuse.  That is interesting, right???  That is waaaayyy better than being a boring cookie-cutter virgin! (christina aguilera)

Be content with this negative method of defining yourself as interesting.  _skewed way of__as carving out your identity in this world.  Accept the pat on the head from liberals for being a good little liberal slut-slave.

End satire.  I got news for ya.  That is not being interesting.  That is being disgusting.

Do something groundbreaking that is genuinely positive and useful for society.

Get hired by Microsoft and become a supervisor or manager.  And not because you graduated with a degree in "Management," but because you completed a degree in computer engineering, worked at the company right out of college, and worked your way to management through skill, savvy, and hard work.

Design a solar panel that can be realistically implemented to power an average-size American home.

Monday, March 8, 2004

More Spoiled Grown-Up Complaints

I am sure we've all heard of the musical play "Rent," wherein a landlord is evil because he expects his tenants to pay their goddamn rent on time every month.

Elsewhere in real life, apartment complexes are evil because they evict people, with due process and giving ample time to amend their ways.  The apartment complexes' reasons for doing this are sound and logical -- they are giving people a place to live, and in exchange they expect to get paid by those people.

Said people are lazy, bad at budgeting, bad at managing money, bad at managing expenses, bad at taking care of themselves.  This is all even though they are grown-ups that are supposed to be able to take care of themselves. And somehow people observing this mess are supposed to side with the lazy slacker tenants who expect to be able to live somewhere for free.

This is an idiotic, spoiled, juvenile mentality that has not matured past the age of twelve apparently, judging by the slacker people's outrage at being expected to pay their way through life.

If you neglect to pay your gas, electricity, or water bills for a few months, the city will shut off these utilities.  That probably sucks, having your electricity and heating cut off, especially if that were in the dead of winter.  And having to shower in cold water is horrible.  (Whenever I visited Bangladesh, I would have to shower under the cold showerhead.  The country of Bangladesh does not have heated water in the plumbing system.  So people have to make do, either by showering in cold water or bring a pot of hot water with you into the shower.)

Yeah, that's harsh, but too frreakin bad.  That’s life.  Plan your budget better for next month.  Work a second job if you can't make ends meet with just the one job.  Don't eat out as often.  Buy groceries and cook at home.  Get a roommate if you have to.

That's life.  That's adult life.  There are necessities.  There are expenses that are a vital part of living.  These include medicine; food; monthly rent if one lives in an apartment, or mortgage if one has bought a house; utilities; gas bills.

I have read and heard the protests that none of these commodities are splurges; they are in fact quite basic -- and I agree with you.  None of these are really what one would consider luxuries.  These are basic things a person needs in order to live life in this first-world society.  You are right on that count.

Like I said, that's life.  I am tired of grown adults complaining, "ohh there are just so many expenses in the high cost of living, ohh woe is me, ohhh why should I have to pay for stuff.  ohh why should I have to spend my own hard-earned money on stuff that is just a base standard of living?  Stuff which is just the minimum necessary to survive at a reasonable health and decency?"

Yes, there are expenses to living that can get quite expensive.  Especially in this western first-world society.

That's why you go to college.  Major in something useful.  Get a freakin job.  So that you can freakin afford to live.  Learn to support yourself.
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Let us discuss the oft-misunderstood and oft-misused subject of "rights."

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[[[[mentio emergency romm, emergency medical services.  Law enforcement,;; police force.  Yes, you do have a right to these absolute ___base safety and protection from preventable death__]]]]

You are not a child.  If you are a child, then yes, the world does have a responsibility to ensure that all your needs of survival are met.  Food, shelter, clothing, education, the right to be taught reading and writing and 'rithmetic.

To elaborate on these rights that children have-- nutritious food and not just junk food; weather-appropriate clothing such as warm coats in cold climates; safe shelter that is structurally sound and won't collapse, has adequate heating, has good plumbing, has reliable security from criminals.

These are rights that children have.  The world must provide these to a child without expecting the child to work for them, or pay for them, or earn them in any way.

Not to mention, general safety from harm.  Children absolutely have the right not to be molested or assaulted or murdered or worse.  These are all rights that a child has, which the world is obligated to provide to a child without expecting anything in return from the child.

However, you are an adult.  The world is not obligated to provide you with any of the comforts of living.  Not even necessities like food and heating.  If you want any of those things as an adult, you better pay for them yourself.

Now, the world does have an obligation to provide you with the absolute most basic general safety from bodily harm.  As in, the world has as obligation to refrain from molesting you, murdering you, raping you, mugging you, and/or in any way physically assaulting you.  The world does have an obligation not to let you die if it can reasonably safe your life.

Yes, you do have those basic rights of safety and a right to complete bodily autonomy.  And that's about it.  That is the extent of the obligation the world has to you.