Dear Ms California,

Dear Ms California,

I regret to inform you that you are a functional retard. Yes that pretty smile and composed demeanor may help you hide your disability in society, but after only a minute or two of listening to you speak it becomes all too clear that your IQ must be about the same number as your bust size.

For all of you that haven’t been following this story, Carrie Prejean (Ms California), lost the Ms USA pageant thanks to answering a question on gay marriage from Perez Hilton. She lost because in what can only be described as an incoherent rant tempered with moments of shear retardation she proclaimed the sanctity of marriage being only between a man and a woman. NEWSFLASH….the only people that watch beauty pageants are gay men and mid west mothers with 1980’s hair and a matching bedazzled jacket and jean combo. You just offended your base and you couldn’t even do it with some semblance of tact or intelligence.

Let me clue you in to something Ms Prejean. This world has no real sense of priority, because if it did then you would never be given a platform to speak and express your moronic and half baked views on morality and politics. But thankfully for you this world does give that platform to people with a beautiful face and flawless body, but just remember this. Every time you open your mouth and say something, the only reason you are allowed to do so is because the media and the people that bank roll you just are just men who respect nothing more than their goal to exploit and if possible have sex with you.

Oh, and one last thought. You know all those super nice guys that do your hair and makeup and seem so nice to you. They are gay, and now they hate your functionally retarded yet very well maintained ass.

No Strings Attached

So here is something not everyone knows about me but don’t mind sharing. I have been using online dating for years with varied success and there is something that I see all the time that always gets me thinking. NSA, no strings attached is something you see very often online and it always makes me chuckle a little and at the same time makes me sad. You see the idea of no strings attached is a logical fallacy and its one that permeates our society as a whole. NEWSFLASH, nothing in this life comes without strings or as I like to call them, consequences.

Let’s stop calling them strings, it sounds pleasant, and that’s the idea, lets remove the comforting notion of consequences as delicate strings binding us together and acknowledge what they are. Everything we do on a daily basis comes with consequences, whether it is the way we deal with people, the way we choose to spend money, the food we eat, the car we drive, it all has an effect on others in ways we do not always perceive in our immediate lives. The reason I chose to write about consequences is because I feel as a society we try to insulate ourselves from the responsibility of the consequences originating from our actions. We hide behind the notion that if we set out to do something with “no strings attached” that we have given enough of a disclaimer that the resulting fallout is not our problem. Hell, the entire sub-prime lending failure can be seen as an NSA arrangement where the initial sale was full of hidden strings unseen to the participants but which eventually rose to the surface and entangled everyone involved….including those not involved.

Dating is no different but provides an excellent example psychologically of our inability to see the hidden “strings” we create whether we like it or not. The truly disturbing part of all of this isn’t the fact that people cant see the resulting damage caused by the consequences of their actions, but the fact that they were seeking a consequence free reality in the first place. Why is it that our society revels in the idea of a “never-never land” existence in which actions have no lasting consequence, we do not age, and no one has to make adult decisions. At what point did we start idolizing the life of small children and their udder lack of responsibility.

I wish for one day our society would stand up and say, “I am an adult and will make decisions with consequences, some right and some wrong, but will accept the results of those decisions and their consequence.” I want to hear everyone in LA say these words and actually think about what that means because I genuinely don’t think at present, the people where I live have any idea of this concept.

The bottom line is, if you or someone you know thinks that NSA is a viable way of doing business, dating, conducting yourself with friends, or just about anything else in life, pass this simple message along for me…GROW UP

Faux News Leads a Faux Revolution

Ok so for anyone who pays attention to the cable news cycles knows, Fox News is organizing Tea Parties all around the country to drum up support for their anti taxation movement. This might be the most ironic thing I have ever seen come out of the right wing of this country. I am going to address this irony in two parts.

First things first, the American Republican party is the party of the corporation and privatization. If you don’t believe this or feel this is a misnomer, you are an idiot and need to walk around with a bag on your head so the rest of society can mock you for being the moron you are. So with that said lets talk a little about the original Boston Tea Party. Being from Boston and being a history buff I know a little bit about the subject. Let’s take a trip back down memory lane and take a look at that moment in American history that the right wing has decided to co-op for their own benefit. The Boston Tea Party was an act of rebellion, not against the crown, but against the British East India Company which controlled the crown similar to the way major multinationals have seized control over our current government. The mantra of taxation without representation is clever but really doesn’t tell the whole story. The driving motives for the Boston Tea Party was not just the slightly raised taxes decreed by the crown, it was the complete removal of taxation for the colonies main competitor in the form of the British East India Company. If you sell tea and are forced to pay 10% tax on your profits, you might be ok with that, but not if your competitor is allowed to pay 0%, which is exactly what happened. Secondly, the Boston Tea Party was what would be considered today an act of terrorism since adjusted for inflation the colonists destroyed 1.5 million dollars worth of tea. So the idea that the republican party, the party of the multinational corporation, would hold symbolic tea parties to protest taxation against the rich is simply hilarious, and makes me wish people would study history and not update their twitter about that awesome sandwich you just had that no one should care about.

The second point of irony is that the republican are trying to position themselves as the populist party now since their base is becoming disenfranchised. Let me get this straight. The all white, southern conservative, xenophobic, bigoted, born again Christians are now the populists? Hold on I have to change my pants since I just shit them laughing at this notion. I don’t even know what to say about this except, NO. You are not the populists. You represent the wealthy and their interests and you do it from accumulate power granted to you by religious intolerance, bigotry and a poor white underclass that has voted against its own best interests for 60 years. You want to represent the people, you can start by making amends for the damage you have done since Reagan by eating a nice heaping helping of GO FUCK YOURSELF, and letting real conservatives like Ron Paul lead your party. I don’t even agree with Ron Paul, but at least he is an honest politician who cares about his country more than his corporations.

Angry Monkeys with Sticks

I am going to write a lot about human nature in these blogs so I want to post something that outlines my fundamental belief in human nature so as to act as a disclaimer for future posts. Humans are at our core angry monkeys with sticks. Three thousand years ago those sticks were pretty close to actual sticks with points on them while today they are more like laser guided bombs and M16s. Make no mistakes about it, we maybe be technologically advanced, but our biological evolution really hasn’t gone anywhere in a while. We fight for our ideas and rights, but mainly we fight for power, wealth and mating rights. Sorry ladies but this is for the most part a man’s world even though we would like to think we have most past that. Men still control the planes and bomb and guns, and we will continue to use them as long as we feel the need to kill other men to secure to the rights to put our penises in your vaginas. We kill each other out of greed, anger, jealousy, and sometimes just because we can.

With all that said there is still hope. Humans may be fighting millions of years of evolution in our efforts to move past our primal motivations, but sometimes we are able to win that struggle but only as long as we acknowledge it and not pretend it is not within each and every one of us. We are separated from most other species because we have evolved to care for one another and form communities. The problem lies as evolutionary biologists have noted that after a certain number of people are included in that community we seem to lose our empathetical ties to that group. Evolution has played a cruel joke on us since they estimate that number is around 60-90 people at maximum for our brains to form natural empathetic bonds with. Where humanity’s real struggle lies is in finding that empathetical bond with the world community beyond just our immediate 60-90 person hard wired social connection scenario.

Lack of empathy in action. CAPITOLISM. No place in humanity is our awful evolutionary baggage more apparent than in the realm of capitalism. I am not a socialist, but capitalism to me represents the worst in humanity. We seek to rise above our peers, not raise a community to new standards of living. We are driven to accumulate wealth and not share success. We are taught that business must consume and consume regardless of the consequences to maintain growth. We destroy countless lives to enrich a few and then shake our simple primate heads when our economies fail when the wealth at the bottom can no longer support the largess at the top. This is evolutions cruel legacy in action. Economic Darwinism is not a good thing; it is a sign that we are still monkeys with sticks. The goal of humanity must be to exercise the one thing that makes us special and that is our amazing ability to empathize with people we do not even know, but choose to help regardless of association.

When I discuss future economic, political, and social happenings I hope you will remember this simple blog so you can better understand my view of humanity an how we must overcome our primitive urges to move on to a new plain of consciousness and cooperation with our fellow human beings. I am not a tree hugging hippy, I am simply and angry monkey with a stick who doesn’t want to be one anymore.

The end of conspicuous consumption.

We the internet generation, born mostly in the 1980’s, have been brought up in a time that I believe will be known by future generations as the era of conspicuous consumption. We are the generation that did not know hardship or strife. We did not grow up with the ideal of working a factory job and making a blue collar salary and supporting a family. We are the generation that was supposed to do better, live larger, and enjoy life without limits or sacrifice. We have been living a collective lie. We are the credit card generation, and we have been running our current tab for almost 30 years. Our parents watched as the government dismantled the safety net that kept rampant greedy capitalism in check and did nothing to stop it. They bought the empty promises and mantra of greed is good. They wanted the new cars and nicer homes with modern amenities that no one needs and most don’t deserve. They, along with my generation have spit on the graves of our great grandparents and grandparents whose generations suffered unimaginable cruelty at the hands of wealthy America and fought to create a better and more equitable future.

Now is our time to suffer, now is our time to repay our debts. We must be the generation that starts the trust busting movement once again. We must stand up and burn the walls of inequality that divide the socioeconomic classes in order to pave the way for future generations to live in a better world. We must abandon the xenophobic rhetoric of our leaders and embrace the world as our community and not just our own country men. We must not placate the racist south any longer or move politics to the center to make the ignorant more comfortable. We must lash out with public anger against the voices of soft bigotry like Rush Limbaugh and his like. We must reject spending and the accumulation of material wealth at the expense of moral gain. We must end conspicuous consumption before it ends us.