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Anarchy fails
Dec. 19th, 2013 06:25 amThis morning I, again, turned off the news after I got the weather. I had fallen into the trap of leaving the tv news on, thinking that I might hear something important. Instead there are only updates on celebrity banter, cursory blips from the headlines, and commercial blare. I'm left with the question: Is it better that people who are isolated numb their pain with articial television relationships, or would we be better if isolated people had no choice but to engage socially? Would their overall pain levels go down if they crossed the threshold?
I'm not classist, but ...
Most people don't realize why poor people are so antsy. It's hard to believe, but the principal issue is that they don't have bidets. I know this sounds like a little thing, but it's hard for those of us who put the time into basic hygiene to imagine what it's like to spend all day with a mild uncomfortable itch or worse. Most of us would choose to ignore this issue out of disgust, but it's a major part of current political debate. Frustrated that the right wing seems immune to data that disproves their platform underpinnings? Just imagine how you feel would, literally, after 8 or more hours with tiny pieces of dried up poo and flakey paper in-between your buttocks.
That doesn't even begin to cover the scope of the issue. Most people have to take public transportation and work 2 or more jobs, leaving them little time for morning preparation. Their long daily commutes are not temperature controlled while seating may be cramped or nonexistent. Worse, the average US person gets up, turns on the social gap filling media, and eats some sort of processed flour product smothered in chinese eggs and artificial cheese product while drinking cheap coffee and/or moutain dew. About half of these don't even prepare this in the home - they eat what is slapped together in batches with binding fry oils by hepatitis infected immigrants. The sulfuric results are predictable and quick. These same folks lack the time to wax or shave more than their face, many have to use public restrooms (which lack any toilet reachable water source even with paper), and you can imagine even the best monkey can only do so much with dissolving pieces of paper against hair covered skin. Some of us, say in a travel status, might take the pain for a day or even more...but can you imagine if this was your daily reality?
This situation was amplified by anarchists. You know how truckstop and gas station restrooms are famous for being disgusting? This is no accident - it's an attempt to overthrow the government. Anarchists in the late 60s and early 70s started a campaign to boil the masses (no pun intended) by making traveling by vehicle more disgusting after widespread acceptance through the traveling community of carrying paper cups of water into stalls, locking individual bathroom doors, and mutual respect of various adaptations to allow for wet-based cleaning methods. Anarchists engaged in a coordinated attack of these comfort-based social mores by spreading (literal) filth on the floors of bathrooms where people might walk with their pants around their ankles from toilet to running water, restricting and removing paper entirely, and breaking latches and locks. The intent was that the poorly dieted long-haul traveler would become more discontented, more susceptible to influence, and that the cascade of social unrest would lead to an overthrow of the government.
Unfortunately, all we got was FOX news.
I'm not classist, but ...
Most people don't realize why poor people are so antsy. It's hard to believe, but the principal issue is that they don't have bidets. I know this sounds like a little thing, but it's hard for those of us who put the time into basic hygiene to imagine what it's like to spend all day with a mild uncomfortable itch or worse. Most of us would choose to ignore this issue out of disgust, but it's a major part of current political debate. Frustrated that the right wing seems immune to data that disproves their platform underpinnings? Just imagine how you feel would, literally, after 8 or more hours with tiny pieces of dried up poo and flakey paper in-between your buttocks.
That doesn't even begin to cover the scope of the issue. Most people have to take public transportation and work 2 or more jobs, leaving them little time for morning preparation. Their long daily commutes are not temperature controlled while seating may be cramped or nonexistent. Worse, the average US person gets up, turns on the social gap filling media, and eats some sort of processed flour product smothered in chinese eggs and artificial cheese product while drinking cheap coffee and/or moutain dew. About half of these don't even prepare this in the home - they eat what is slapped together in batches with binding fry oils by hepatitis infected immigrants. The sulfuric results are predictable and quick. These same folks lack the time to wax or shave more than their face, many have to use public restrooms (which lack any toilet reachable water source even with paper), and you can imagine even the best monkey can only do so much with dissolving pieces of paper against hair covered skin. Some of us, say in a travel status, might take the pain for a day or even more...but can you imagine if this was your daily reality?
This situation was amplified by anarchists. You know how truckstop and gas station restrooms are famous for being disgusting? This is no accident - it's an attempt to overthrow the government. Anarchists in the late 60s and early 70s started a campaign to boil the masses (no pun intended) by making traveling by vehicle more disgusting after widespread acceptance through the traveling community of carrying paper cups of water into stalls, locking individual bathroom doors, and mutual respect of various adaptations to allow for wet-based cleaning methods. Anarchists engaged in a coordinated attack of these comfort-based social mores by spreading (literal) filth on the floors of bathrooms where people might walk with their pants around their ankles from toilet to running water, restricting and removing paper entirely, and breaking latches and locks. The intent was that the poorly dieted long-haul traveler would become more discontented, more susceptible to influence, and that the cascade of social unrest would lead to an overthrow of the government.
Unfortunately, all we got was FOX news.
