More Ranting, or, Saving Mankind From Itself.

Thank Dogness for Blogger, is all I can say. It's almost cathartic, this ourpouring of angst. Sadly, this is the only place I can speak my mind and not have to listen to some do-gooder try to set me straight...according to them. Ever notice that? All you want to do is unload your mind, release the pent-up frustration, in your best "cry me a river" whine, and people suddenly feel they have to remind you how good you got it? They don't even let you build up steam before attempting to shame you into silence. How bad you are to feel so overwhelmed and underappreciated! How could you! Look around you, you ungrateful louse, you have money, goods and chattels, health care, a great job, family, friends....electronics. The list of things we all have is endless. The fact that we bang our heads daily in frustrated attempts to be heard seems to fly right over some peoples heads. I assume these folks simply have no desire to improve their lot in life.

Well! It may be that we have everything we need. But, do we? If we do, why do we constantly aspire higher? We do live in a great country (Canada, OH) and we do have jobs, and disposable income (sorta) and we have free healthcare (for now...til the powers that be fuck it all up for everyone, give it time, do not get me started...) and so on and such. The do-gooders usually fail to realize one small thing, however. The human condition. Do these people really not understand how and why we have evolved? Do they think we've evolved by taking whatever comes along and being grateful, accepting our sad fate and lying back and letting the dingos eat us?

Oh, hell, no. We evolved by venting our wrath, taking our anger and using it to forward ourselves..to charge fearlessly into new locations, situations, adventures, using the power of our emotions to build new lives, to invent new things, create better ways. And what is up with doing things the same old crappy inefficient way because "that's the way we've always done it"? What is that bullshit? What you really mean is, that's the way we've always done it because no one could be bothered to think about it until now. Just drone along, accepting the difficulties in life because, well...that's how we've always done it. Plus, the ever-present fear of change.

No. This is so wrong.

Why not be brave, be courageous, be pioneers, explorers, inventors, adventurers. Be like Abe Lincoln. Like Malcolm X. These people took their anger, their fear, their shame, their failures, their wrath, even their jealousy and pain, and turned it into positive, life-affirming things that have furthered us, given hope, and created a better society...and I refuse to let some "do-gooder" remove the hope of an even better society from my future just because they fear change. Let me have my angst. Let me use it. It moves me forward while you stagnate in your apathy. It is what my forebears would be proud of. Did they really suffer and die to create a new world just so we could sit here and let it languish in its own indifference? I hope not. I think not. We are not done yet. Our society still needs so much work.

Henceforth shall I rant, complain, think, dream, contemplate, plot, create, conspire, and unleash myself onto an unsuspecting but foward moving world.

Onwards, people. Time's a-wasting.