I went and saw Cornel West speak tonight.
Before the speech there was a small round table dinner where professors talked about Cornel West.
There was a philosophy professor there that spoke for 15 minutes and mentioned three times he went to Harvard.
Then we went over to the building where he was speaking.
I was sitting next to a kid that I never met before.
We sat and talked for like twenty minutes.
He kept telling me how he was confused about which philosopher was right, how there was no clear right and wrong, and how he couldn't pick a major and couldn't figure out what he wanted to do with his life.
Then we talked about Sartre and he said he didn't believe humans were in angst.
I said, "You just spent the last twenty minutes talking about how you're confused."
Then he got really pissed and starting saying fuck and talking loudly and it almost seemed like he was going to get violent.
Then the speech started and Cornel West was awesome.
There were three older black women sitting to next me that kept making church noises, raises their hands to God, and generally going nuts with emotion.
It was awesome.
It was funny though, because they didn't really know what he was talking about at times, they were reacting to his inflection most of the time. And at one point Cornel West screamed, "HISTORY WILL HUNT YOU DOWN!" Referencing the economic depression and shit eventually happens no matter how awesome you think you are. And the woman was like, "Amen."
Then West talked about Chekhov and Dostoevsky and that was awesome.
Everybody walked away really happy
Thursday, February 26, 2009
I HATE PEOPLE SO MUCH IT FUCKING HURTS
Today in Law and Society my sweet professor who is a republican and has spent his life memorizing tidbits about the Constitution and the Supreme Court evoked conversation about the stimulus package.
I heard the phrase like five times, "MARKET CORRECTION"
These assholes have no fucking idea what the phrase MARKET CORRECTION means
They heard some jackass pundits say it and now they are going around saying it
They think MARKET CORRECTION means that somehow if the market is allowed to flow along unregulated jobs will be created and life will be beautiful again
here's the market trend page on wiki
does anybody see on that page the phrase
"Creates jobs that are worth having"
MARKET CORRECTION means that something is being bought for too little or too much and eventually the price stablizes to what it should cost
it does not fucking mean SWEET JOBS WITH HEALTH CARE
I heard the phrase like five times, "MARKET CORRECTION"
These assholes have no fucking idea what the phrase MARKET CORRECTION means
They heard some jackass pundits say it and now they are going around saying it
They think MARKET CORRECTION means that somehow if the market is allowed to flow along unregulated jobs will be created and life will be beautiful again
here's the market trend page on wiki
does anybody see on that page the phrase
"Creates jobs that are worth having"
MARKET CORRECTION means that something is being bought for too little or too much and eventually the price stablizes to what it should cost
it does not fucking mean SWEET JOBS WITH HEALTH CARE
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
More on Women
I heard a guy at work say, "Women don't find men attractive that chew snuff."
Everyone should fight about that.
Everyone should fight about that.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Thinking about women
Here are some situations that men don't really have to do with:
1. If they have sex and get pregnant and get depends on how you view it, get stuck with a child.
I was thinking about why men have all these like places where they go to suck each other's dicks. Why there are so many female whores and male whores for women. Why there are so many strip joints for men and barely any for women.
I have to assume, it is because women must protect he vagina.
A vagina can get pregnant.
Women have to at least check the male out.
There are some that don't, we can call those narcissists. But i know many narcissists who still practice birth control.
I as man don't live in that context. I don't have to walk around worrying about getting pregnant. I never have. It has never occurred that I could get pregnant.
It occurs that I want to stick my penis in a vagina.
But I think the woman thinks, or considers, "this male might get me pregnant."
Which has never has occurred to me.
2. Women are constantly confronted with men that want to have sex with them.
Men are constantly trying to have sex with women.
Men are constantly touching and making provocative sexual comments to women.
This barely ever happens to men.
And when it does, people usually laugh.
When I was working at Papa John's the female head manager kept touching me and making sexual comments about me to my face.
I can't say I enjoyed.
It wasn't the type of attention I wanted.
I couldn't imagine being in that situation on a daily basis.
3. Most women are small physically and cannot beat men with the same degree they can beat them.
I as a man confront larger men than me, and when I am controlled by a fellow man based because of the threat of physical violence. I don't like it. It makes me feel shitty.
It is 2009, but I still think women have to live with the fact when they are arguing with a man, "Fuck, what if this sentence makes him hit me. I'll be knocked across the room. Fuck, I'll be quiet and take this."
Now if a woman has her own money, she can just leave if the situation comes to that. But nowadays most people don't have enough money to go walking off from other people.
4. Women are bottoms. Women get fucked, they don't fuck. In the male homosexual community bottoms are considered pussies or bitches.
ADDED after reading comment:
5. There is another weird thing. A woman can get things like dinner and concert tickets, drinks, and random other shit from her sexuality.
I can't do that. I can't walk into a bar and sit down and assume someone is going to buy me a drink. If I sit in a bar alone no one is going to talk to me.
But on the flip, women can't go and sit in a bar alone without most likely being talked to.
I can sit in a bar all night, drinking, watching television, playing pool by myself. But I never see women do that unless they are in their forties and overweight and they know no one cares then.
*
These four things are pretty big.
I don't have any clue what it is like to live being condemned to those four things.
1. If they have sex and get pregnant and get depends on how you view it, get stuck with a child.
I was thinking about why men have all these like places where they go to suck each other's dicks. Why there are so many female whores and male whores for women. Why there are so many strip joints for men and barely any for women.
I have to assume, it is because women must protect he vagina.
A vagina can get pregnant.
Women have to at least check the male out.
There are some that don't, we can call those narcissists. But i know many narcissists who still practice birth control.
I as man don't live in that context. I don't have to walk around worrying about getting pregnant. I never have. It has never occurred that I could get pregnant.
It occurs that I want to stick my penis in a vagina.
But I think the woman thinks, or considers, "this male might get me pregnant."
Which has never has occurred to me.
2. Women are constantly confronted with men that want to have sex with them.
Men are constantly trying to have sex with women.
Men are constantly touching and making provocative sexual comments to women.
This barely ever happens to men.
And when it does, people usually laugh.
When I was working at Papa John's the female head manager kept touching me and making sexual comments about me to my face.
I can't say I enjoyed.
It wasn't the type of attention I wanted.
I couldn't imagine being in that situation on a daily basis.
3. Most women are small physically and cannot beat men with the same degree they can beat them.
I as a man confront larger men than me, and when I am controlled by a fellow man based because of the threat of physical violence. I don't like it. It makes me feel shitty.
It is 2009, but I still think women have to live with the fact when they are arguing with a man, "Fuck, what if this sentence makes him hit me. I'll be knocked across the room. Fuck, I'll be quiet and take this."
Now if a woman has her own money, she can just leave if the situation comes to that. But nowadays most people don't have enough money to go walking off from other people.
4. Women are bottoms. Women get fucked, they don't fuck. In the male homosexual community bottoms are considered pussies or bitches.
ADDED after reading comment:
5. There is another weird thing. A woman can get things like dinner and concert tickets, drinks, and random other shit from her sexuality.
I can't do that. I can't walk into a bar and sit down and assume someone is going to buy me a drink. If I sit in a bar alone no one is going to talk to me.
But on the flip, women can't go and sit in a bar alone without most likely being talked to.
I can sit in a bar all night, drinking, watching television, playing pool by myself. But I never see women do that unless they are in their forties and overweight and they know no one cares then.
*
These four things are pretty big.
I don't have any clue what it is like to live being condemned to those four things.
Monday, February 23, 2009
I'm not a philosopher
I have an upper division political philosophy class taught by a 'philosopher'.
He calls himself a 'philosopher' also.
The class is taught by a 40 year old guy who wears his pants above his belly button. He wears nerdy classes and shows no human emotion. None of the philosophy teachers show any emotion.
I took like two philosophy classes like six years ago, an intro class and a somethng called tech and human values which was a blowoff class.
They let me take the class because only eight people took it and they needed students.
Everyone in the class is a philosophy major or minor.
The teacher is really serious and is trying to show us what it is like to be a professional 'philosopher.'
He uses words like biconditional, horseshoe logic, moral arguments and practical arguments and refuses to explain what they mean.
When I say things in class he yells at me that I'm making practical arguments or sociological arguments and that this is philosophy class and I need to make moral arguments.
The class basically is, we read an except of John Rawls' Theory of Justice and we have to read like a hundred essays bitching about Rawls.
I got to read Nozick which said that taxes are a form of slavery because they are collected illegitimately. And that every square inch of the universe should be sold to people, and that starvation is awesome.
Someone named Sandel who said that racism is okay, because culture is so important that nothing else matters.
Nozick was a professor at Harvard,
seriously?
Someone who said that taxes are a form of slavery and that starvation was okay.
Hmm, I don't know.
Sandel is also a professor at Harvard.
Seriously
A guy who says racism is okay and that governments should halt progress to secure that Indian people eat curry.
I'm fucking serious.
Also John Rawls worked at Harvard
And all of them went to Oxford
So I've made these conclusions
1. To be a philosopher one must go to Oxford
2. To be a philosophy one must work at Harvard
3. Must be white
4. Must be upper class
5. Must write crazy fucking shit that has nothing to do with reality (John Rawls actually has a little to do with reality, kind of. If you read through Theory of Justice he never mentions it once though. There isn't one concrete noun like say shoe or Frisbee in the whole fucking book. It is a total abstraction clusterfuck.)
6. Concluded that Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau were not philosophers but sociologists and political scientists, not philosophers. Whatever the fuck these upper class white men are doing has nothing to do with what they wrote.
7. Take more sociology classes and forget the philosophy classes.
He calls himself a 'philosopher' also.
The class is taught by a 40 year old guy who wears his pants above his belly button. He wears nerdy classes and shows no human emotion. None of the philosophy teachers show any emotion.
I took like two philosophy classes like six years ago, an intro class and a somethng called tech and human values which was a blowoff class.
They let me take the class because only eight people took it and they needed students.
Everyone in the class is a philosophy major or minor.
The teacher is really serious and is trying to show us what it is like to be a professional 'philosopher.'
He uses words like biconditional, horseshoe logic, moral arguments and practical arguments and refuses to explain what they mean.
When I say things in class he yells at me that I'm making practical arguments or sociological arguments and that this is philosophy class and I need to make moral arguments.
The class basically is, we read an except of John Rawls' Theory of Justice and we have to read like a hundred essays bitching about Rawls.
I got to read Nozick which said that taxes are a form of slavery because they are collected illegitimately. And that every square inch of the universe should be sold to people, and that starvation is awesome.
Someone named Sandel who said that racism is okay, because culture is so important that nothing else matters.
Nozick was a professor at Harvard,
seriously?
Someone who said that taxes are a form of slavery and that starvation was okay.
Hmm, I don't know.
Sandel is also a professor at Harvard.
Seriously
A guy who says racism is okay and that governments should halt progress to secure that Indian people eat curry.
I'm fucking serious.
Also John Rawls worked at Harvard
And all of them went to Oxford
So I've made these conclusions
1. To be a philosopher one must go to Oxford
2. To be a philosophy one must work at Harvard
3. Must be white
4. Must be upper class
5. Must write crazy fucking shit that has nothing to do with reality (John Rawls actually has a little to do with reality, kind of. If you read through Theory of Justice he never mentions it once though. There isn't one concrete noun like say shoe or Frisbee in the whole fucking book. It is a total abstraction clusterfuck.)
6. Concluded that Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau were not philosophers but sociologists and political scientists, not philosophers. Whatever the fuck these upper class white men are doing has nothing to do with what they wrote.
7. Take more sociology classes and forget the philosophy classes.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
40 year old strippers
Last I was bored and in need of a female touch
so I made the decision to go in public
I drove to the lampost lounge, the strip joint I always write about and no one was there but a forty year old woman and the owner sitting behind the bar.
The owner said business is down the economy collapsed
I didn't get a dance from the one old woman and drove to Club Pink.
A strip joint I worked the door at for awhile.
I paid five dollars to get in and there were no dancers except for the 40 year owner.
I mean, she looks really good for a 40 year old.
But what the fuck
So I drove to The Palace in the Pines and finally found some women
Palace in the Pines I guess has survived the economic collapse
You pay 15 dollars and you enter into a tunnel
and there's long stage with a short width
you sit around the stage and the girls are naked and you give them ones
and you can get dances for 10 dollars
The girls were young and pretty and everybody was having a good time
so I made the decision to go in public
I drove to the lampost lounge, the strip joint I always write about and no one was there but a forty year old woman and the owner sitting behind the bar.
The owner said business is down the economy collapsed
I didn't get a dance from the one old woman and drove to Club Pink.
A strip joint I worked the door at for awhile.
I paid five dollars to get in and there were no dancers except for the 40 year owner.
I mean, she looks really good for a 40 year old.
But what the fuck
So I drove to The Palace in the Pines and finally found some women
Palace in the Pines I guess has survived the economic collapse
You pay 15 dollars and you enter into a tunnel
and there's long stage with a short width
you sit around the stage and the girls are naked and you give them ones
and you can get dances for 10 dollars
The girls were young and pretty and everybody was having a good time
Saturday, February 21, 2009
The Human War movie Scirpt
About a year Thomas Henwood and Pirooz Kalayeh of SIXDAY Productions told me a year they were going to make a movie out the human war.
Both of them came to visit me over the last year.
Both of them are really nice Both are really good natured fellows. Pirooz is a silly dude. And Thomas Henwood this strong serious demeanor only a producer could have.
They showed me what could be the final script today.
It is really good.
I like it.
It really isn't much like the book.
And I like that.
When I met both of them I said, "I'm not a movie. You're the movie guys, do what you want."
And what they created is really amazing to me.
They just took it and did shit.
They made it in a movie the best way they could.
I'm not the kind of person that says, "That movie isn't anything like the book." Or, "The book is so much better than the movie."
Never, none at all.
I liked that they were creative with it.
I like when people are creative and do what they want.
Both of them came to visit me over the last year.
Both of them are really nice Both are really good natured fellows. Pirooz is a silly dude. And Thomas Henwood this strong serious demeanor only a producer could have.
They showed me what could be the final script today.
It is really good.
I like it.
It really isn't much like the book.
And I like that.
When I met both of them I said, "I'm not a movie. You're the movie guys, do what you want."
And what they created is really amazing to me.
They just took it and did shit.
They made it in a movie the best way they could.
I'm not the kind of person that says, "That movie isn't anything like the book." Or, "The book is so much better than the movie."
Never, none at all.
I liked that they were creative with it.
I like when people are creative and do what they want.
The Last Emperor
I love this movie
it is so dramatic and anal
While I watch it I don't know why they made it
But I keep watching it
A movie about one of the most useless people that ever existed
Someone so useless that if you were going to build a fence and you had the choice of hiring a life long crack head with no teeth and the emperor, you would ask the crack head because at least you know that person had to have a job at some point in their life.
I want to do a commentary for The Last Emperor.
I know I want chapman to be there
and probably like two other people
And then put it on youtbe.
I think it would be a good time to get drunk with four other people and watch The Last Emperor and talk about it
I feel it could be a life learning experience
Are there any other huge The Last Emperor fans out there?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Ellen Kennedy
Ellen Kennedy has a new book out, I think it is her first book in print. It is called Sometimes my Heart Pushes against my Ribs.
I haven't read it yet.
I hope I get a copy one day.
Ellen Kennedy sits with me sometimes on webcam gmail chat. We sit with our clothes on and play the guitar together.
She shows me dogs sometimes.
I haven't read it yet.
I hope I get a copy one day.
Ellen Kennedy sits with me sometimes on webcam gmail chat. We sit with our clothes on and play the guitar together.
She shows me dogs sometimes.
In some lab that has head phones
There's this foreign language lab that has head phones.
I'm sitting here listening to Elephant Gun.
Staring out a large window that allows me to gaze upon damp ass youngstown.
I can see the hospital where I was born from this seat
For some reason there is a giant picture of three asian school girls giggling.
for some reason when the music goes off, i can hear people talking on the headphones. I don't know where the sound comes from, or what these headphones are linked. I've never been in this room.
I'm looking around.
There's like a small room where people are sitting with large windows. I think this is a testing room or something
Yeah, i think it is them.
I don't think I'm supposed to be in here.
Now I'm listening to Lydia.
Their voices are in the background of the music.
I don't know how I feel right now at this moment.
wait
hold on
let me feel
I feel really heavy
like i have a cinder block in my chest
and it is pulling me toward the floor
Tonight i start work
at red lobster
I really like the typing action on this keyboard
I don't know about red lobster
i have to wear a beard net
like I'm a ninja or something
i smell like old sweat
it might be my shirt
i need to wash my shirt
i really don't know why I'm at this college
it is really boring
a teacher in a wheel chair this morning told the class that Obama is a covert communist
I started laughing really hard
after the lydia song went off on youtube
it said, 'Miley Cyrus is a slut' and had pics of miley cyrus in her underwear
I thought, 'That's a dumbass in her underwear.'
I'm considering becoming this song i'm listening to
this is twice now by Lydia
i want to become the song
transcendent
i like when he sings string
oh that is good
it is 11 52
this is my life
i've lived long enough to spend five years with two different women
i've watched or felt or experienced or participated, in their birth, rise, and fall
i don't know how i feel about that
it is like now
i guess i have to put on my walking shoes
and find someone else to repeat the process
the birth rise and fall of another love affair
you walk around, going from room to room, leaving your house, getting in your car, combing your hair
trying to build a level of confidence that is attractive
to maintain it for the night
or while you're in that room
you have to go around again
saying, 'Hello, my name is Noah.'
Checking each person out
trying to find another one
trying to pop another five years out of another person
so when you're on your deathbed
you can get a dry erase board and write down all the names of the people you spent five years with
and you call that
your love life
then you can write down all the jobs you had and how much you got paid
you can draw all the houses you ever lived in
all the pets you ever had
you can point at one and say, 'this is pookie. Pookie was a mangy mutt that bit me and I cried.'
Then you can draw all your coats
and say
these were my coats
then you can draw all your shoes
and say
these were my shoes
nurses will come in
and think you're nuts
and their observation will be correct
back to the present tense
i'm still in the room
i feel really suffocated by this room
it is a large room
but there is definitely something suffocating about it
I believe I'm going to start crying now
I won't
I'm lying
I'll hold it all in
there is like ten people in here
i've never seen them before
they have no relevance to me
the world has a lot of people
nobody looks like they have meaning in here
they are doing things to keep occupied
the DOW is around 7500
i don't think i care
I'm going to smoke soon
I'll be standing outside
people will walk by that hold no relevance to me
I don't think there is any relevance anymore
i guess there is relevance
i am concerned with walls, i know I must aim for the door when I walk.
i know I can't type this and convey information unless I hit the correct keys with my fingers.
I care about sitting on seats, because if i miss the seat, I will fall on the floor, and people notice me and think terrible thoughts about me.
People can think bad thoughts about me, but I don't want them to think about me missing seats
I don't know if this song is depressing enough
I've moved on to pw long's she's gone now
okay, enough
i need to smoke
i need to find someone to talk to
but no one is left
I'm sitting here listening to Elephant Gun.
Staring out a large window that allows me to gaze upon damp ass youngstown.
I can see the hospital where I was born from this seat
For some reason there is a giant picture of three asian school girls giggling.
for some reason when the music goes off, i can hear people talking on the headphones. I don't know where the sound comes from, or what these headphones are linked. I've never been in this room.
I'm looking around.
There's like a small room where people are sitting with large windows. I think this is a testing room or something
Yeah, i think it is them.
I don't think I'm supposed to be in here.
Now I'm listening to Lydia.
Their voices are in the background of the music.
I don't know how I feel right now at this moment.
wait
hold on
let me feel
I feel really heavy
like i have a cinder block in my chest
and it is pulling me toward the floor
Tonight i start work
at red lobster
I really like the typing action on this keyboard
I don't know about red lobster
i have to wear a beard net
like I'm a ninja or something
i smell like old sweat
it might be my shirt
i need to wash my shirt
i really don't know why I'm at this college
it is really boring
a teacher in a wheel chair this morning told the class that Obama is a covert communist
I started laughing really hard
after the lydia song went off on youtube
it said, 'Miley Cyrus is a slut' and had pics of miley cyrus in her underwear
I thought, 'That's a dumbass in her underwear.'
I'm considering becoming this song i'm listening to
this is twice now by Lydia
i want to become the song
transcendent
i like when he sings string
oh that is good
it is 11 52
this is my life
i've lived long enough to spend five years with two different women
i've watched or felt or experienced or participated, in their birth, rise, and fall
i don't know how i feel about that
it is like now
i guess i have to put on my walking shoes
and find someone else to repeat the process
the birth rise and fall of another love affair
you walk around, going from room to room, leaving your house, getting in your car, combing your hair
trying to build a level of confidence that is attractive
to maintain it for the night
or while you're in that room
you have to go around again
saying, 'Hello, my name is Noah.'
Checking each person out
trying to find another one
trying to pop another five years out of another person
so when you're on your deathbed
you can get a dry erase board and write down all the names of the people you spent five years with
and you call that
your love life
then you can write down all the jobs you had and how much you got paid
you can draw all the houses you ever lived in
all the pets you ever had
you can point at one and say, 'this is pookie. Pookie was a mangy mutt that bit me and I cried.'
Then you can draw all your coats
and say
these were my coats
then you can draw all your shoes
and say
these were my shoes
nurses will come in
and think you're nuts
and their observation will be correct
back to the present tense
i'm still in the room
i feel really suffocated by this room
it is a large room
but there is definitely something suffocating about it
I believe I'm going to start crying now
I won't
I'm lying
I'll hold it all in
there is like ten people in here
i've never seen them before
they have no relevance to me
the world has a lot of people
nobody looks like they have meaning in here
they are doing things to keep occupied
the DOW is around 7500
i don't think i care
I'm going to smoke soon
I'll be standing outside
people will walk by that hold no relevance to me
I don't think there is any relevance anymore
i guess there is relevance
i am concerned with walls, i know I must aim for the door when I walk.
i know I can't type this and convey information unless I hit the correct keys with my fingers.
I care about sitting on seats, because if i miss the seat, I will fall on the floor, and people notice me and think terrible thoughts about me.
People can think bad thoughts about me, but I don't want them to think about me missing seats
I don't know if this song is depressing enough
I've moved on to pw long's she's gone now
okay, enough
i need to smoke
i need to find someone to talk to
but no one is left
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Jerking off on a Bitch's head makes me feel good
This is my assignment for Political Thought 1. It is funny.
Noah Cicero
The Trials and Executions of our Zeitgeists
Socrates, Jesus Christ and Romulus were all executed. The three great influences of the Post-Renaissance Era in which we live. Socrates who brought us the Socratic Method or the virtue that one should strive for intelligence. Christ who taught us the beauty of charity and simplicity. And Romulus who believed in the virtue of conquest, ambition, and the will to destroy to get what one wants.
The literature used to make show these correlations is going to The Apology by Plato, The new King James Version of The New Testament, and Livy's version of the life of Romulus.
The essay will contain four sections:
1. A modern view of the Zietgiest and why Socrates, Christ, and Romulus are the main ones of the Modern Era.
2. Mystical Correlations
3. Their Trials
4. Why they were executed? We must kill the Father.
A modern view of the Zietgiest and why Socrates, Christ, and Romulus are the main ones of the Modern Era
In Hegel's view a zietgeist tis he spirit of an age. That the Spirit goes from one culture to another creating a unique civilization. His view was holy in nature. That God put his touch on certain cultures and created their world views and ways of life.
Before we continue though a definition for the word zeitgeist must be supplied: in 2009 the zeitgeist will be reduced to a cognitive thought process that produces certain behaviors and emotions. Or behaviors we can identify as being part of a certain zeitgeist.
Most of the cultures Hegel analyzed were cultures that arose from tribalism. Rome, Greece, China, and India were early civilizations with very little history to go on. They also grew in isolation. They did have contact with other nearby civilizations, but it took many months to travel from civilized China to civilized India and probably over a year to get from civilized China to a civilized Greece. There was contact through trade but not enough to apply the word 'isolation.'
America was not born out of tribes or isolation. America was born out of a literate European civilization already had been established for over two to three thousand years. The American zeitgeist is more of a compendium, a collection of zeitgeists formulated into one unified mass
America has three main zeitgeists they work with; they are like tools we apply to certain situations. To understand how the spirits of Socrates, Romulus, and Christ affect our modern behavior: lets take a look at a political science student named Veronica. Veronica is going to college, acknowledging like Socrates that she's, "not wise in anything." Veronica acknowledges her ignorance of politics. That to get a job in politics she must first learn about the subject. She takes on Socrates spirit that one must admit they do not know something to learn something. And also the spirit of intelligence: that it is good to seek intelligence. That questioning and learning will help a person live a better life.
Veronica takes on the spirit of Christ when she does community service to help the citizens of Youngstown. She finds community valuable. She believes if she uses the methods of Socrates to gather intelligence she may be able to go on after she is done with her degree and help her fellow citizens live better lives.
Veronica also follows the way of Romulus though: she loves the victory of good grades. She has a thousand ambitions, she wants to graduate college, she wants to get a certain job, she wants to live in a certain place, with a certain size house. She wants victory and to conquer. She also believes in imperialism for the sake of comfort. She drives a car, owns a cell phone, everything she owns was brought in by a semi-truck and owns many objects made of plastic. She believes through action that imperialism against countries that contain large amounts of oil is legitimate as long as they don't stick broomsticks up the natives' asses. Her Christian spirit does draws a line at those behaviors.
As can be seen from Veronica the spirit of Socrates, Christ, and Romulus have influenced the way people behave and think up to this day.
The question arises then do the myths of these men have anything in common? What was so special about them that made such an impression that they still in with us in spirit today? And strangely for being such awe inspiring men, such men of greatness why did they get executed? Or is the answer of their greatness contained within their executions?
Mystical Correlations
To Socrates, Christ, and Romulus a large of mysticism is gathered around them. Christ and Romulus were both sons of Gods. Romulus was the son of Mars, a Roman warrior God. Christ was the son of the Jewish God. Socrates was not born of a god. We can assume the ancients did not choose to give him this story because Socrates represented intelligence and questioning. And Socrates showed problems with the Greek people's view of the gods, as seen in these lines from The Apology, "I do not believe in the same gods which the state believes in, but others, and this is what you accuse me of, that I believe in others: or, secondly, do you say that I disbelieve in gods altogether and teach this to the people?"
Socrates was not born of the gods but he did go the oracle at Delphi named Chairephon. Chairephon told Socrates that, "no one was wiser." This resembles Christ meeting with John the Baptist and the Holy Spirit descended and said, "My beloved Son; In You I am well please." Both of them beginning their stories of greatness with priests.
Socrates was also possessed by a spirit like Christ. Socrates said he was possessed by a daimonion or daemon. We have to look what the word daemon meant to ancient Greeks though: they were supernatural entities, either lesser gods or dead heroes from the past. When Socrates said he was possessed by a daemon he wasn't referencing evil spirits from Christianity. But perhaps a fallen friend from his youth who fell in combat along side of him, maybe even Homer or Achilles.
Christ and Romulus were both called, "The son of God." Both after they were executed and descended from the heavens to make similar proclamations, Christ told his disciples to, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." Acoording to Livy Romulus said, ""Go," said he, "tell the Romans that it is the will of heaven that my Rome should be the head of all the world. Let them henceforth cultivate the arts of war, and let them know assuredly, and hand down the knowledge to posterity, that no human might can withstand the arms of Rome." Socrates did not rise from the dead because his spirit represents questioning and science, but in Crito his last words are, "Then let it be, Criton, and let us do in this way, since in this way God is leading us." The way Socrates was referencing was honoring the Social Contract of one's city-state or community. Christ and Romulus told people to spread their Social Contract and then have them follow it.
The Trials
Socrates was charged with corrupting the youth and not believing in the ancestral gods. He was accused by Meletus. 501 jurors assembled to judge Socrates. Socrates in my opinion plead 'no contest.' I think it can be seen in these lines, "Many thanks indeed for your kindness, gentlemen, but I will obey the god rather than you, and as long as I have breath in me, and remain able to do it, I will never cease being a philosopher, and exhorting you, and showing what is in me to any one of you I may meet, by speaking to him in my usual way;" Later Socrates says after he was convicted, "You have voted for my condemnation, gentlemen of Athens; and I am not resentful at this which has been done, many things contribute to that, and particularly that I expected this to be done."
Socrates wasn't denying that he corrupted the youth. Socrates had corrupted the youth. He made the youth look at their world and sees it different, which led to different behaviors. Perhaps in our view he did not corrupt them to become bad as Meletus thought, but altered them.
Socrates was also accused of not believing the gods of Athens. Socrates replied to this by saying, "I do not believe in the same gods the state believes in." He stated it without remorse.
Socrates basically said to the crowd at Athens, "Look, yes, my behaviors indicate that I've altered the thoughts of the youth, and don't believe in yours Gods. I am guilty, but not you like you think."
Christ also pleaded a form of 'no contest.' When questioned by the Sanhedrin Christ if he was the Son of the Blessed Christ answered, "I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven." Christ's answer said basically that he was guilty, but not guilty like they think.
Romulus had no trial. According to Livy, "I believe, however, that even then there were some who secretly hinted that he had been torn limb from limb by the senators-a tradition to this effect, though certainly a very dim one, has filtered down to us." Romulus had no trial. One can assume that Romulus had a severe attack of hubris and became a hindrance to the senators and they killed him for it.
The strangest correlation of all is that western man favorite three characters of history, three characters still talked about every day. Everyone in America knows who Christ and Socrates are. Maybe not the specifics but they have a general idea. Romulus is not well known but there are still some who know he is. What is strange about this is that they are all criminals. They were all tried and convicted. We believe, honor, and respect ancient criminals.
What is amazing about it is that during their eras they were considered as we consider criminals today, lowly people who couldn't obey rules. Who couldn't get along in society, who wouldn't follow the code of conduct of that civilization. Who were insane by their standards, but as history passed their philosophies began to dominate. It is funny to think about, imagine aliens coming to our planet and asking, “Who were your greatest humans?” The western man would point at Socrates, Christ, and Romulus. And the alien would say, “You are obsessed with rules and privileges and worship criminals?”
Why they were executed
To look at these trials and executions as more than empirical facts of who accused we do not see the esoteric information hidden in these trials , it is possible to see something deeper in them.
In Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud Freud tells a story of how the first totem could have been created, or the first Social Contract. (It should be said I'm not treating it like it is fact, but that the archetype or the myth supplies a certain truth about us as humans.) The Social Contract myth of Freud stated that thousands of years ago humans still lived like the apes. The father would take all the women and send the boys out alone to fend for themselves. The boys lived together creating a bond among themselves. Eventually the boys would return and kill the father and take the women. When they would kill the father they would take his Social Contract, but change it, making it their own. It is shown in these lines, "They hated their father, who presented such a formidable obstacle to their craving for power and their sexual desires; but they love and admired him too. After they had got rid of him, had satisfied their hatred and put into effect their wish to identify themselves with him, the affection which had all this time been pushed under was bound to make itself felt. It did so in the form of remorse. A sense of guilt made its appearance, which in this instance coincided with the remorse felt by the whole group. The dead father became stronger than the living." The Jurors at Athens, the Sanhedrin, and senators didn't take their women, they took their philosophy. As Dostoevsky noted concerning Christ in The Grand Inquisitor Christ's philosophy was too tough to follow to the letter. It is the same with Socrates; we can't everyone running around living in poverty for the sake of knowledge. No, they took methods of Socrates and applied to them to war and public works, and the creation of tools. Romulus demanded endless conquest and war, which leads to endless death and struggle.
But that still doesn't answer what it was that the people truly hated about them. Why they couldn't stand for them to be alive. The answer is freedom. Socrates, Christ, and Romulus were the freest men who had ever lived. Romulus was so free that he had to build his own city to demonstrate his freedom; he created his own Social Contract in these lines by Livy, "Romulus called his people to a council. As nothing could unite them into one political body but the observance of common laws and customs, he gave them a body of laws, which he thought would only be respected by a rude and uncivilised race of men if he inspired them with awe by assuming the outward symbols of power."
Socrates and Christ did not create their own states, but they did create their own Social Contracts. They created a law, a theory of life, a world view inside of the civilizations they were inhabiting.
Socrates, Romulus, and Christ were hated so much because they had created their own version of law and then they lived by it. They had become the ubermensch or according to the people of their times, outlaws, criminals, deviants, outsiders. They had created their own laws and were living their lives according to them.
But how did they become the three main zeitgeists of America and what does it mean for us? After The Black Plague, after half of Europe died miserable deaths. People lost faith in the church and start seeking new answers. Those new questions drove people to pick up the works of Plato and Aristotle and the Greeks again. Which people call 'The Rebirth of Antiquity.' Europeans started asking scientific questions, which led to Europeans starting to ask questions what it meant to be human, which led to the Age of Reason. There was another problem The Ottomans blocking off sea routes which led European nations to seek resources in other places, like the Americas and Africa. Which led to the Romulus zeitgeist of conquest for resources.
Those three zeitgeists of Socrates, Christ and Romulus came together to form the modern human. It wasn't Hegel's theory that German village democracy created it. It that the modern incorporated into their being, their world view, those three great influences into one character. Now there is a problem with that, it creates a contradiction clusterfuck.
Christ is against conquest
Christ is against victory and pride
Christ is against the gluttony of Romulus
Christianity requires faith not intelligence
These contradictions, these existential dilemmas remain with us today. Every writer of the modern era since Blaise Pascal has shown this dilemma in their philosophical works. The question remains, louder than ever, how does a person live the Christian life, of charity and kindness while seeking intelligence and wanting the comforts of conquest?
Noah Cicero
The Trials and Executions of our Zeitgeists
Socrates, Jesus Christ and Romulus were all executed. The three great influences of the Post-Renaissance Era in which we live. Socrates who brought us the Socratic Method or the virtue that one should strive for intelligence. Christ who taught us the beauty of charity and simplicity. And Romulus who believed in the virtue of conquest, ambition, and the will to destroy to get what one wants.
The literature used to make show these correlations is going to The Apology by Plato, The new King James Version of The New Testament, and Livy's version of the life of Romulus.
The essay will contain four sections:
1. A modern view of the Zietgiest and why Socrates, Christ, and Romulus are the main ones of the Modern Era.
2. Mystical Correlations
3. Their Trials
4. Why they were executed? We must kill the Father.
A modern view of the Zietgiest and why Socrates, Christ, and Romulus are the main ones of the Modern Era
In Hegel's view a zietgeist tis he spirit of an age. That the Spirit goes from one culture to another creating a unique civilization. His view was holy in nature. That God put his touch on certain cultures and created their world views and ways of life.
Before we continue though a definition for the word zeitgeist must be supplied: in 2009 the zeitgeist will be reduced to a cognitive thought process that produces certain behaviors and emotions. Or behaviors we can identify as being part of a certain zeitgeist.
Most of the cultures Hegel analyzed were cultures that arose from tribalism. Rome, Greece, China, and India were early civilizations with very little history to go on. They also grew in isolation. They did have contact with other nearby civilizations, but it took many months to travel from civilized China to civilized India and probably over a year to get from civilized China to a civilized Greece. There was contact through trade but not enough to apply the word 'isolation.'
America was not born out of tribes or isolation. America was born out of a literate European civilization already had been established for over two to three thousand years. The American zeitgeist is more of a compendium, a collection of zeitgeists formulated into one unified mass
America has three main zeitgeists they work with; they are like tools we apply to certain situations. To understand how the spirits of Socrates, Romulus, and Christ affect our modern behavior: lets take a look at a political science student named Veronica. Veronica is going to college, acknowledging like Socrates that she's, "not wise in anything." Veronica acknowledges her ignorance of politics. That to get a job in politics she must first learn about the subject. She takes on Socrates spirit that one must admit they do not know something to learn something. And also the spirit of intelligence: that it is good to seek intelligence. That questioning and learning will help a person live a better life.
Veronica takes on the spirit of Christ when she does community service to help the citizens of Youngstown. She finds community valuable. She believes if she uses the methods of Socrates to gather intelligence she may be able to go on after she is done with her degree and help her fellow citizens live better lives.
Veronica also follows the way of Romulus though: she loves the victory of good grades. She has a thousand ambitions, she wants to graduate college, she wants to get a certain job, she wants to live in a certain place, with a certain size house. She wants victory and to conquer. She also believes in imperialism for the sake of comfort. She drives a car, owns a cell phone, everything she owns was brought in by a semi-truck and owns many objects made of plastic. She believes through action that imperialism against countries that contain large amounts of oil is legitimate as long as they don't stick broomsticks up the natives' asses. Her Christian spirit does draws a line at those behaviors.
As can be seen from Veronica the spirit of Socrates, Christ, and Romulus have influenced the way people behave and think up to this day.
The question arises then do the myths of these men have anything in common? What was so special about them that made such an impression that they still in with us in spirit today? And strangely for being such awe inspiring men, such men of greatness why did they get executed? Or is the answer of their greatness contained within their executions?
Mystical Correlations
To Socrates, Christ, and Romulus a large of mysticism is gathered around them. Christ and Romulus were both sons of Gods. Romulus was the son of Mars, a Roman warrior God. Christ was the son of the Jewish God. Socrates was not born of a god. We can assume the ancients did not choose to give him this story because Socrates represented intelligence and questioning. And Socrates showed problems with the Greek people's view of the gods, as seen in these lines from The Apology, "I do not believe in the same gods which the state believes in, but others, and this is what you accuse me of, that I believe in others: or, secondly, do you say that I disbelieve in gods altogether and teach this to the people?"
Socrates was not born of the gods but he did go the oracle at Delphi named Chairephon. Chairephon told Socrates that, "no one was wiser." This resembles Christ meeting with John the Baptist and the Holy Spirit descended and said, "My beloved Son; In You I am well please." Both of them beginning their stories of greatness with priests.
Socrates was also possessed by a spirit like Christ. Socrates said he was possessed by a daimonion or daemon. We have to look what the word daemon meant to ancient Greeks though: they were supernatural entities, either lesser gods or dead heroes from the past. When Socrates said he was possessed by a daemon he wasn't referencing evil spirits from Christianity. But perhaps a fallen friend from his youth who fell in combat along side of him, maybe even Homer or Achilles.
Christ and Romulus were both called, "The son of God." Both after they were executed and descended from the heavens to make similar proclamations, Christ told his disciples to, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." Acoording to Livy Romulus said, ""Go," said he, "tell the Romans that it is the will of heaven that my Rome should be the head of all the world. Let them henceforth cultivate the arts of war, and let them know assuredly, and hand down the knowledge to posterity, that no human might can withstand the arms of Rome." Socrates did not rise from the dead because his spirit represents questioning and science, but in Crito his last words are, "Then let it be, Criton, and let us do in this way, since in this way God is leading us." The way Socrates was referencing was honoring the Social Contract of one's city-state or community. Christ and Romulus told people to spread their Social Contract and then have them follow it.
The Trials
Socrates was charged with corrupting the youth and not believing in the ancestral gods. He was accused by Meletus. 501 jurors assembled to judge Socrates. Socrates in my opinion plead 'no contest.' I think it can be seen in these lines, "Many thanks indeed for your kindness, gentlemen, but I will obey the god rather than you, and as long as I have breath in me, and remain able to do it, I will never cease being a philosopher, and exhorting you, and showing what is in me to any one of you I may meet, by speaking to him in my usual way;" Later Socrates says after he was convicted, "You have voted for my condemnation, gentlemen of Athens; and I am not resentful at this which has been done, many things contribute to that, and particularly that I expected this to be done."
Socrates wasn't denying that he corrupted the youth. Socrates had corrupted the youth. He made the youth look at their world and sees it different, which led to different behaviors. Perhaps in our view he did not corrupt them to become bad as Meletus thought, but altered them.
Socrates was also accused of not believing the gods of Athens. Socrates replied to this by saying, "I do not believe in the same gods the state believes in." He stated it without remorse.
Socrates basically said to the crowd at Athens, "Look, yes, my behaviors indicate that I've altered the thoughts of the youth, and don't believe in yours Gods. I am guilty, but not you like you think."
Christ also pleaded a form of 'no contest.' When questioned by the Sanhedrin Christ if he was the Son of the Blessed Christ answered, "I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven." Christ's answer said basically that he was guilty, but not guilty like they think.
Romulus had no trial. According to Livy, "I believe, however, that even then there were some who secretly hinted that he had been torn limb from limb by the senators-a tradition to this effect, though certainly a very dim one, has filtered down to us." Romulus had no trial. One can assume that Romulus had a severe attack of hubris and became a hindrance to the senators and they killed him for it.
The strangest correlation of all is that western man favorite three characters of history, three characters still talked about every day. Everyone in America knows who Christ and Socrates are. Maybe not the specifics but they have a general idea. Romulus is not well known but there are still some who know he is. What is strange about this is that they are all criminals. They were all tried and convicted. We believe, honor, and respect ancient criminals.
What is amazing about it is that during their eras they were considered as we consider criminals today, lowly people who couldn't obey rules. Who couldn't get along in society, who wouldn't follow the code of conduct of that civilization. Who were insane by their standards, but as history passed their philosophies began to dominate. It is funny to think about, imagine aliens coming to our planet and asking, “Who were your greatest humans?” The western man would point at Socrates, Christ, and Romulus. And the alien would say, “You are obsessed with rules and privileges and worship criminals?”
Why they were executed
To look at these trials and executions as more than empirical facts of who accused we do not see the esoteric information hidden in these trials , it is possible to see something deeper in them.
In Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud Freud tells a story of how the first totem could have been created, or the first Social Contract. (It should be said I'm not treating it like it is fact, but that the archetype or the myth supplies a certain truth about us as humans.) The Social Contract myth of Freud stated that thousands of years ago humans still lived like the apes. The father would take all the women and send the boys out alone to fend for themselves. The boys lived together creating a bond among themselves. Eventually the boys would return and kill the father and take the women. When they would kill the father they would take his Social Contract, but change it, making it their own. It is shown in these lines, "They hated their father, who presented such a formidable obstacle to their craving for power and their sexual desires; but they love and admired him too. After they had got rid of him, had satisfied their hatred and put into effect their wish to identify themselves with him, the affection which had all this time been pushed under was bound to make itself felt. It did so in the form of remorse. A sense of guilt made its appearance, which in this instance coincided with the remorse felt by the whole group. The dead father became stronger than the living." The Jurors at Athens, the Sanhedrin, and senators didn't take their women, they took their philosophy. As Dostoevsky noted concerning Christ in The Grand Inquisitor Christ's philosophy was too tough to follow to the letter. It is the same with Socrates; we can't everyone running around living in poverty for the sake of knowledge. No, they took methods of Socrates and applied to them to war and public works, and the creation of tools. Romulus demanded endless conquest and war, which leads to endless death and struggle.
But that still doesn't answer what it was that the people truly hated about them. Why they couldn't stand for them to be alive. The answer is freedom. Socrates, Christ, and Romulus were the freest men who had ever lived. Romulus was so free that he had to build his own city to demonstrate his freedom; he created his own Social Contract in these lines by Livy, "Romulus called his people to a council. As nothing could unite them into one political body but the observance of common laws and customs, he gave them a body of laws, which he thought would only be respected by a rude and uncivilised race of men if he inspired them with awe by assuming the outward symbols of power."
Socrates and Christ did not create their own states, but they did create their own Social Contracts. They created a law, a theory of life, a world view inside of the civilizations they were inhabiting.
Socrates, Romulus, and Christ were hated so much because they had created their own version of law and then they lived by it. They had become the ubermensch or according to the people of their times, outlaws, criminals, deviants, outsiders. They had created their own laws and were living their lives according to them.
But how did they become the three main zeitgeists of America and what does it mean for us? After The Black Plague, after half of Europe died miserable deaths. People lost faith in the church and start seeking new answers. Those new questions drove people to pick up the works of Plato and Aristotle and the Greeks again. Which people call 'The Rebirth of Antiquity.' Europeans started asking scientific questions, which led to Europeans starting to ask questions what it meant to be human, which led to the Age of Reason. There was another problem The Ottomans blocking off sea routes which led European nations to seek resources in other places, like the Americas and Africa. Which led to the Romulus zeitgeist of conquest for resources.
Those three zeitgeists of Socrates, Christ and Romulus came together to form the modern human. It wasn't Hegel's theory that German village democracy created it. It that the modern incorporated into their being, their world view, those three great influences into one character. Now there is a problem with that, it creates a contradiction clusterfuck.
Christ is against conquest
Christ is against victory and pride
Christ is against the gluttony of Romulus
Christianity requires faith not intelligence
These contradictions, these existential dilemmas remain with us today. Every writer of the modern era since Blaise Pascal has shown this dilemma in their philosophical works. The question remains, louder than ever, how does a person live the Christian life, of charity and kindness while seeking intelligence and wanting the comforts of conquest?
Monday, February 16, 2009
Comments on Chicago Writer Party Pictures
This is Gene Morgan. Gene Morgan is a really nice person. Gene Morgan gmail chats with me when I'm at school. He looks like he rides harleys and fucks bitches doggy style while slapping them on the ass really hard laughing. The girl looks happy getting fucked by Gene Morgan. Gene Morgan hosts Bear Parade
This is Blake Butler. His dad is from Youngstown. We are brothers through that connection. I think Blake Butler is attractive. Blake Butler runs Lamination Colony. Here is a story by Kendra Grant Malone that Blake Butler brought to the world. I like when people host websites that bring readable literature by alienated people to the world. Here is a list by Blake Butler
This is Sam Pink, his link is over the right, click it. Sam Pink looks really awesome. He looks really italian, he looks like a child of a mobster. A mobster named Vinnie. Vinnie comes into Sam Pink's bedroom. Vinnie is like, "what the fuck are you doing?" Sam Pink is like, "I'm crying, Hobbes is beautiful." Vinnie tells Sam Pink, "Don't read that protestant shit," and tells Sam Pink he needs to go to Cicero and shoot his cousin Anthony for betraying the family. Sam Pink finishes chapter 17 of Hobbes' Leviathan, rides the city bus to his cousin's house and shoots him. Goes back home, checks his email and blog and writes this story.
This is Jereme Dean. I'm pretty he hates me. He emailed me once and told me if my ego was just a little bit smaller I would be a worthwhile human. I told him that was correct but I didn't have health care to get medication. I like how he looks. He looks like a human being. As opposed to this version of a human. He has written this and this.
The other person is Molly Gaudry. She has a very large smile and looks attractive. But if she is hanging around this bunch, she is probably mentally ill and a total basket case. Here are some things by here, here and here.
I haven't heard of her till this moment, here is something she wrote
Weeping has never been useful except for those who do it well. But you know this, for you are the weeper and I am the grower. Do you remember our trip to the Grande’s Groves and the picnic I made and how it fell into Big River as we crossed? The look on your face made the baby cry. Then you took her away to the weeping place because she was so good at it. That was when I began to grow my hair. Now it is long past my waist. I have no joy for it anymore. You have made a career of your tears, a living off my locks. Soon you will come for me with gleaming shears upheld. This time, I will not let you.
This is really amazing. She needs to write a whole novel in this voice, or at least a collection of poems.
This is Gena Mohwish. One night we talked in gmail chat. She sent me a long email that was very sad. It was the kind of story that would lead a weaker person to overdose on heroin and smoke crack. I'm happy she found literature. Here are some of her works, here and here
This is Mike Young. I'm pretty Mike Young is famous. He is everywhere all the time. He is from Oregon. I like Oregon, I've been there like five times. It is full of hippies and pot heads and good natured liberals. I hear medford is full of hicks. His magazine is Noo Journal. Here's a good story about something that took place in Oregon, I like the description. Here's another story.
This is Shane Jones. Shane Jones looks really cool in this picture. He looks completely fucked but still able to function. I don't know what kind of job he can get with that beard. He has a nice smile. Very friendly. Here's a story about getting his girlfriend pregnant. Here's a story in a female voice. He does it good. Here's a good line
He went into the kitchen and grabbed a beer from the refrigerator. For the first time in our relationship I felt pathetic. I stood there completely naked except with a wrestling mask around my face. I unzipped the mask and walked into the bedroom.
I feel like that all the time.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
PW LONG
Limewire doesn't have PW LONG songs. I want this song on CD so I can play it over and over again crying. Because I keep starting a good cry, but I have to stop and click play on youtube again. It is messing up the whole experience.
If anyone has this song on CD and other miserable PW Long songs on CD. If you burn and send it to me
I'll send you a free copy of Treatise.
Also this is a local bar in Youngstown. Well, it is used to be a local bar until they found mold in it.
Everyone is probably looking at this post and thinking, "Who the fuck is PW Long."
How's that for a deal
On the Ice
Mosquito Lake
On the ice walking around. In the distance you can see the little tents people were ice fishing in.
The only two people that will hang out with me because adults know I'm nuts. Children don't know that.
The kid on the left is named Cyrus. I told him the story of Cyrus the Great and the history of Persia.
Here's a pic of the lake from being on it. It kind of looks like a field in Nebraska.
We made it to the ice fishers. They were in little tents with electric heaters wearing very expensive snow suits. Here are some of their fish.
Friday, February 13, 2009
I'M BORED AS FUCK
I HAVE WORKED EVERY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT FOR LIKE I DON'T KNOW FIVE YEARS
IF I DIDN'T I WAS ON VACATION
OR HAD SOMETHING PLANNED
I HAVE NO JOB TODAY
I'M SITTING HERE
I SHOULD BE WORKING
I SHOULD BE SUFFERING
EVERYONE I KNOW IS AT WORK
BECAUSE EVERYONE I KNOW WORKS AT RESTAURANTS
I'M STARING AT THE CEILING
I LAID IN BED FOR AND TOOK RANDOM NAPS
IT DOES NOTHING FOR THIS SITUATION
I'VE ALREADY READ LIKE 60 PAGES OF SHIT TODAY ABOUT COURTS AND ADAM SMITH
OH MY GOD
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO
I'M GOING TO GO BUY CIGARETTES AND DIET POP
AND MAYBE DRIVE AROUND
TOMORROW I HAVE NOTHING TO DO TOO
I DON'T HAVE ANYONE ON VALENTINE'S DAY
WHICH MAKES SENSE BECAUSE I'M A FUCKING WEIRDO
BUT FUCK
NOTHING TO DO ON VALENTINE'S DAY
SHIT MAN
I NEED A FUCKING A JOB
RED LOBSTER IS SUPPOSED TO HIRE ME
I'LL BE FRYING FISH
SMELLING LIKE CRAB
AND HATING MY LIFE
SOON ENOUGH
IF I DIDN'T I WAS ON VACATION
OR HAD SOMETHING PLANNED
I HAVE NO JOB TODAY
I'M SITTING HERE
I SHOULD BE WORKING
I SHOULD BE SUFFERING
EVERYONE I KNOW IS AT WORK
BECAUSE EVERYONE I KNOW WORKS AT RESTAURANTS
I'M STARING AT THE CEILING
I LAID IN BED FOR AND TOOK RANDOM NAPS
IT DOES NOTHING FOR THIS SITUATION
I'VE ALREADY READ LIKE 60 PAGES OF SHIT TODAY ABOUT COURTS AND ADAM SMITH
OH MY GOD
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO
I'M GOING TO GO BUY CIGARETTES AND DIET POP
AND MAYBE DRIVE AROUND
TOMORROW I HAVE NOTHING TO DO TOO
I DON'T HAVE ANYONE ON VALENTINE'S DAY
WHICH MAKES SENSE BECAUSE I'M A FUCKING WEIRDO
BUT FUCK
NOTHING TO DO ON VALENTINE'S DAY
SHIT MAN
I NEED A FUCKING A JOB
RED LOBSTER IS SUPPOSED TO HIRE ME
I'LL BE FRYING FISH
SMELLING LIKE CRAB
AND HATING MY LIFE
SOON ENOUGH
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Summer gas spike, depression
I thought of an analogy for last summer's price spike.
Imagine 10 really rich people.
They aren't that hungry.
There is an auction
11 meals are for sell.
Of course the 10 meals are going to be cheap.
There are only ten people.
Well imagine this
There are 10 really rich people
and only nine meals.
Now that is a difference of only one meal.
Not that much.
But the ten really rich people, not all equally rich I have to add.
Start freaking out
because one of them is going to die
if they don't get that meal
the worse case scenario kicks in
death
a shortage of food
So last summer when the world couldn't produce enough oil
they started freaking out
and spent shitloads of money they didn't fucking have to get it
People are like
but with the depression the amount of oil we use only went down a little
and they were able to up it a little
that is true
but you only need one meal less to cause starvation
and several third world countries were fucked out of oil last summer
America ended up spending 700 billion on oil last year as opposed to its usual 400 billion.
I think the main reason behind the depression is that the world has to adjust to oil production not growing
and eventually becoming less
this isn't like a normal depression
a normal capitalist depression as defined by Marx
is when a factory purchases a new machine that requires less workers to produce more, if it be nails or shirts.
Or if a business moves because the owners found cheaper labor somewhere else.
Which leads to less money in the community and a downward spiral
You can find these depression areas all over America.
Large scale depressions are caused by nature.
The Great Depression came out of the Dust Bowl, and it also came out of the economy being redesigned with oil in mind.
The economy before the 30s was not oil based like ours.
They had some cars and trucks.
But nothing worth talking about.
People were still using horses and walking.
Americans have been talking about manufacturing a lot.
That WE should bring it back to America.
Okay
here are the problems with that
1. Capitalists do that, not WE, not the government. Capitalists have to choose to build factories and pay Americans. It has to be in THEIR self-interest to do that.
2. Banks aren't giving out credit to create huge factories to produce shoes and shirts and cups.
3. We don't have national health care. China and India have national health care. Which is good for the capitalists, because then the capitalists don't have to supply health care to their workers.
4. Americans are so mentally fucking warped that they wouldn't buy shit made in America. Imagine a new shoe called, "Darby" made in Iowa. Americans want nikes, not Darbies. Americans won't buy it. Unless they were forced to, because that was their only choice.
5. If our main problem is with energy. Then it would be a bad idea to continue creating more buildings that run off the old energy and take the old energy to create.
What is to be done
Well, the bottom half of America. The 150 million that own like 3 pennies of America's wealth and the added 20 million illegal immigrants don't give a shit. Tell those people to go work on a farm or build windturbines, to go cut a tree down for some wood. Most of them won't care. You will probably have lazy fucks. But there has always been some lazy fucks.
The problem lies with the top 100 million that have ambitions to be marketers, office workers, lawyers, computer tech people, etc.
It isn't the bottom that's fighting for this.
Seriously
Most Americans have been doing jobs they hate and living with less all their lives. They don't care.
And as much as the media likes to pretend that all Americans live a wonderful life, it really isn't true.
It is basically the top 100 million that love this way of life.
I'm not blaming them though:
Sartre, Chomsky, Rousseau, all the 19th and 20th century philosophers had these wonderful dreams for humanity. How they would become creative, good, seek the optimal, fulfill their beings or some shit.
It sadly didn't turn out like that.
People are raised in a social class, in a geographical area, with certain types around them.
They usually just take on those types.
Have a relative sense of what happiness and sadness means.
Get jobs their social class wants them to have
Go to work
raise children
eat dinner
watch television
get drunk on the weekends
nothing really awesome
most of the people that took that meaningful fulfilling life shit serious were people that created shit art.
This is what I have to say about humans for today
The other night I was at the waffle house
there was a middle aged female cook, she was kind of cute for being in her late 30s early 40s
We talked about grits
she told me how she learned to make grits when she was 11
and how she loved to make grits
I told her her grits were great
she smiled and felt really happy
A lot of people would call her lazy because she had never done anything awesome with her life
but she seemed happy that she was good at making grits
This compassion is probably why I'm a writer and not a philosopher
In my philosophy class everyone seems really into calling people stupid and lazy
Everyone has a really good time in that class labeling people they've never met and won't go near
You know what
why this depression will only get worse
and why america is fucking fucking everything up
it is because you never hear
"That person is really nice."
"Yeah, he was really polite and courteous."
Nothing like that
No one considers working together in unison, friendliness, being charming, being nice, respect virtues in this nation
Seriously has anyone ever heard this phrase on this land?
"I was so impressed by how nice he was."
or, "Did you hear about the nice thing Joe did for Bob."
No
You never hear that.
I'm not even concerned with intelligence anymore
we have a shitload of intelligence in this country
we have college grads out the fucking ass
hell we could use less, for some reason exercise and fashion design are majors at YSU, WHY!!!
You know what
I want everyone after reading this
to leave their computer and not do anything nice for anyone
but just notice nice things people do
who is nice
what nice things you do
no intelligence
virtues
Imagine 10 really rich people.
They aren't that hungry.
There is an auction
11 meals are for sell.
Of course the 10 meals are going to be cheap.
There are only ten people.
Well imagine this
There are 10 really rich people
and only nine meals.
Now that is a difference of only one meal.
Not that much.
But the ten really rich people, not all equally rich I have to add.
Start freaking out
because one of them is going to die
if they don't get that meal
the worse case scenario kicks in
death
a shortage of food
So last summer when the world couldn't produce enough oil
they started freaking out
and spent shitloads of money they didn't fucking have to get it
People are like
but with the depression the amount of oil we use only went down a little
and they were able to up it a little
that is true
but you only need one meal less to cause starvation
and several third world countries were fucked out of oil last summer
America ended up spending 700 billion on oil last year as opposed to its usual 400 billion.
I think the main reason behind the depression is that the world has to adjust to oil production not growing
and eventually becoming less
this isn't like a normal depression
a normal capitalist depression as defined by Marx
is when a factory purchases a new machine that requires less workers to produce more, if it be nails or shirts.
Or if a business moves because the owners found cheaper labor somewhere else.
Which leads to less money in the community and a downward spiral
You can find these depression areas all over America.
Large scale depressions are caused by nature.
The Great Depression came out of the Dust Bowl, and it also came out of the economy being redesigned with oil in mind.
The economy before the 30s was not oil based like ours.
They had some cars and trucks.
But nothing worth talking about.
People were still using horses and walking.
Americans have been talking about manufacturing a lot.
That WE should bring it back to America.
Okay
here are the problems with that
1. Capitalists do that, not WE, not the government. Capitalists have to choose to build factories and pay Americans. It has to be in THEIR self-interest to do that.
2. Banks aren't giving out credit to create huge factories to produce shoes and shirts and cups.
3. We don't have national health care. China and India have national health care. Which is good for the capitalists, because then the capitalists don't have to supply health care to their workers.
4. Americans are so mentally fucking warped that they wouldn't buy shit made in America. Imagine a new shoe called, "Darby" made in Iowa. Americans want nikes, not Darbies. Americans won't buy it. Unless they were forced to, because that was their only choice.
5. If our main problem is with energy. Then it would be a bad idea to continue creating more buildings that run off the old energy and take the old energy to create.
What is to be done
Well, the bottom half of America. The 150 million that own like 3 pennies of America's wealth and the added 20 million illegal immigrants don't give a shit. Tell those people to go work on a farm or build windturbines, to go cut a tree down for some wood. Most of them won't care. You will probably have lazy fucks. But there has always been some lazy fucks.
The problem lies with the top 100 million that have ambitions to be marketers, office workers, lawyers, computer tech people, etc.
It isn't the bottom that's fighting for this.
Seriously
Most Americans have been doing jobs they hate and living with less all their lives. They don't care.
And as much as the media likes to pretend that all Americans live a wonderful life, it really isn't true.
It is basically the top 100 million that love this way of life.
I'm not blaming them though:
Sartre, Chomsky, Rousseau, all the 19th and 20th century philosophers had these wonderful dreams for humanity. How they would become creative, good, seek the optimal, fulfill their beings or some shit.
It sadly didn't turn out like that.
People are raised in a social class, in a geographical area, with certain types around them.
They usually just take on those types.
Have a relative sense of what happiness and sadness means.
Get jobs their social class wants them to have
Go to work
raise children
eat dinner
watch television
get drunk on the weekends
nothing really awesome
most of the people that took that meaningful fulfilling life shit serious were people that created shit art.
This is what I have to say about humans for today
The other night I was at the waffle house
there was a middle aged female cook, she was kind of cute for being in her late 30s early 40s
We talked about grits
she told me how she learned to make grits when she was 11
and how she loved to make grits
I told her her grits were great
she smiled and felt really happy
A lot of people would call her lazy because she had never done anything awesome with her life
but she seemed happy that she was good at making grits
This compassion is probably why I'm a writer and not a philosopher
In my philosophy class everyone seems really into calling people stupid and lazy
Everyone has a really good time in that class labeling people they've never met and won't go near
You know what
why this depression will only get worse
and why america is fucking fucking everything up
it is because you never hear
"That person is really nice."
"Yeah, he was really polite and courteous."
Nothing like that
No one considers working together in unison, friendliness, being charming, being nice, respect virtues in this nation
Seriously has anyone ever heard this phrase on this land?
"I was so impressed by how nice he was."
or, "Did you hear about the nice thing Joe did for Bob."
No
You never hear that.
I'm not even concerned with intelligence anymore
we have a shitload of intelligence in this country
we have college grads out the fucking ass
hell we could use less, for some reason exercise and fashion design are majors at YSU, WHY!!!
You know what
I want everyone after reading this
to leave their computer and not do anything nice for anyone
but just notice nice things people do
who is nice
what nice things you do
no intelligence
virtues
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Review of Treatise
There is a review of Treatise
I decided to google myself, I haven't done it in a long time. Because I haven't got anything published and there was no reason to.
I was bored and felt like something worth doing and found that review.
I like when the person writes, " he constructs a world that’s just slightly off,"
That's how I feel when I reread it
like the world is not on correctly.
Chekhov's version doesn't read like that, his is pretty straight.
Not changing the names and forcing the story on modern day America created some form of Kafka affect. Like in The Trial, the world is just off. I like the scene in Treatise when Misial is in Geneva on the lake eating dinner with the crazy drunk mother and her son, and they keep bitching at each other.
"Lampooning our supposed worries versus 19th century Russia’s? Saying that we try and try and try, and a hundred years and two continents later we’re in the same comfortable rut?"
I like that too.
I don't think it is normal to analyze one's reviews in public, but writers do it, even if they don't write it down. I'm writing it down, you gotta deal with it.
I decided to google myself, I haven't done it in a long time. Because I haven't got anything published and there was no reason to.
I was bored and felt like something worth doing and found that review.
I like when the person writes, " he constructs a world that’s just slightly off,"
That's how I feel when I reread it
like the world is not on correctly.
Chekhov's version doesn't read like that, his is pretty straight.
Not changing the names and forcing the story on modern day America created some form of Kafka affect. Like in The Trial, the world is just off. I like the scene in Treatise when Misial is in Geneva on the lake eating dinner with the crazy drunk mother and her son, and they keep bitching at each other.
"Lampooning our supposed worries versus 19th century Russia’s? Saying that we try and try and try, and a hundred years and two continents later we’re in the same comfortable rut?"
I like that too.
I don't think it is normal to analyze one's reviews in public, but writers do it, even if they don't write it down. I'm writing it down, you gotta deal with it.
Sam Pink's book is out
Sam Pink, has written a book, and found someone to publish it.
The book is here
I really enjoy Sam Pink.
He sent me a copy of Hobbes Leviathan to read, I read the middle of it and learned all about the state of nature. I gave a speech yesterday on the Hobbes State of Nature in class, it was well received.
Sam Pink wrote this poem
That poem should notify you that purchasing Sam Pink's book will make you laugh and feel better for like an hour or so.
here is another Sam Pink piece
I like how factual Sam Pink is:
He doesn't concern himself with constructing a story and having you follow it till it gets you somewhere and then you are somewhere, and the story ends.
It just starts somewhere and entertains you.
And it feels good.
here is a classic line from a Sam Pink story, "I will put Herbert in a tree and you will say, “Oh, look, a little bird. Honey, I don’t want that little bird to poop on our driveway, could you shoot it with your BB gun? Make sure to hit it in the head so it dies.” “You sick fuck,” I will say. “You sick fuck. That’s our Herbert.” I will take Herbert out of the tree and cradle him/her. “You won’t hurt my baby,” I’ll say, then walk into town with Herbert to escape your tyranny. I will buy a sandwich at the store and offer to trade Herbert for the sandwich. Then I will think, “This is silly, I could make so many more sandwiches with Herbert. I am being a silly person. This is like that Biblical story about not giving a man a sandwich because he’ll never learn to make a sandwich out of his kid.” Let’s make a baby."
It reminds me of my childhood.
His writing is very fast and confronting, i think he may write only when he is manic. I would not be surprised that he is bipolar or only writes when he is having a bad day.
I don't know if it would be proper to read it on a beach while relaxing after you just got a really good raise and you just screwed someone that is really attractive.
It probably wouldn't work then.
Sam Pink's writing has a functional use, if you feel really horrible and want to kill people and emotionally hurt those around you, which happens often, you can pick up Sam Pink's book and say, "Good, I'm not alone. It is totally normal to start a pretend fight with your girlfriend just to make her cry, and that you did that because your boss was mean to you because you showed up late to work because you slept in because you got really drunk last night, and you tried to fuck your girlfriend, but was so drunk, you couldn't get hard. And she started bitching, and you passed out forgetting to set your alarm clock, and your life sucks."
The book is here
I really enjoy Sam Pink.
He sent me a copy of Hobbes Leviathan to read, I read the middle of it and learned all about the state of nature. I gave a speech yesterday on the Hobbes State of Nature in class, it was well received.
Sam Pink wrote this poem
That poem should notify you that purchasing Sam Pink's book will make you laugh and feel better for like an hour or so.
here is another Sam Pink piece
I like how factual Sam Pink is:
He doesn't concern himself with constructing a story and having you follow it till it gets you somewhere and then you are somewhere, and the story ends.
It just starts somewhere and entertains you.
And it feels good.
here is a classic line from a Sam Pink story, "I will put Herbert in a tree and you will say, “Oh, look, a little bird. Honey, I don’t want that little bird to poop on our driveway, could you shoot it with your BB gun? Make sure to hit it in the head so it dies.” “You sick fuck,” I will say. “You sick fuck. That’s our Herbert.” I will take Herbert out of the tree and cradle him/her. “You won’t hurt my baby,” I’ll say, then walk into town with Herbert to escape your tyranny. I will buy a sandwich at the store and offer to trade Herbert for the sandwich. Then I will think, “This is silly, I could make so many more sandwiches with Herbert. I am being a silly person. This is like that Biblical story about not giving a man a sandwich because he’ll never learn to make a sandwich out of his kid.” Let’s make a baby."
It reminds me of my childhood.
His writing is very fast and confronting, i think he may write only when he is manic. I would not be surprised that he is bipolar or only writes when he is having a bad day.
I don't know if it would be proper to read it on a beach while relaxing after you just got a really good raise and you just screwed someone that is really attractive.
It probably wouldn't work then.
Sam Pink's writing has a functional use, if you feel really horrible and want to kill people and emotionally hurt those around you, which happens often, you can pick up Sam Pink's book and say, "Good, I'm not alone. It is totally normal to start a pretend fight with your girlfriend just to make her cry, and that you did that because your boss was mean to you because you showed up late to work because you slept in because you got really drunk last night, and you tried to fuck your girlfriend, but was so drunk, you couldn't get hard. And she started bitching, and you passed out forgetting to set your alarm clock, and your life sucks."
John Rawls is God
No one told me that John Rawls is God.
I'm telling you so you know now.
John Rawls came down from the mountain carrying stone tablets saying that if we can create the perfect procedures
then we will have a just society.
We can create these perfect procedures by having a 'veil of ignorance.'
Which means when we make procedures
we pretend that we are not a gender, a race, an ethnic, from an economic class, and live in a spaceship as a particle.
Rawls laws will follow perfectly the definition of law by Aristotle that law is 'reason divorced from passion.'
These procedures will create the perfect society because it will contain no emotion and it will make humans into nonentities.
Rawls also justified capitalism by saying that as long as the richest person benefits the poorest person than it is morally allowed for that person to be that rich.
I think this is why Obama made that cap on how much bank CEOs make. Because their massive wealth became a hindrance to society. And was not benefiting anyone but themselves.
John Rawls book Theory of Justice does not include any statements on reality. The book never references reality or mentions any situation where his theory can take place.
I don't think I mind Rawls that much.
Cause it is so generalized you could apply his theory to anything.
You could be a restaurant manager and use the veil of ignorance to give raises. As opposed to giving raises to people who go out drinking with you and laugh at your jokes.
You could be in a communist society and still use the 'veil of ignorance' to make procedures.
But at the same, I won't lie, I don't vote with the veil of ignorance. I vote for the person that is talking about my interests and says things like, "I'm not giving tax cuts to the rich, fuck the man." Because that emotionally appeals to me.
If I was a judge, and some half italian blue collar kid came before me, I probably would probably be lenient
I think if i was judge and it was a mexican kid or an upper class business men, people i've hardly ever spent time and have no real emotional attachment to, I would try to put on the veil of ignorance to do what was right. But I know I would be more lenient to blue collar people and african-americans because I've spent my life around them and have emotions concerning them.
I'm telling you so you know now.
John Rawls came down from the mountain carrying stone tablets saying that if we can create the perfect procedures
then we will have a just society.
We can create these perfect procedures by having a 'veil of ignorance.'
Which means when we make procedures
we pretend that we are not a gender, a race, an ethnic, from an economic class, and live in a spaceship as a particle.
Rawls laws will follow perfectly the definition of law by Aristotle that law is 'reason divorced from passion.'
These procedures will create the perfect society because it will contain no emotion and it will make humans into nonentities.
Rawls also justified capitalism by saying that as long as the richest person benefits the poorest person than it is morally allowed for that person to be that rich.
I think this is why Obama made that cap on how much bank CEOs make. Because their massive wealth became a hindrance to society. And was not benefiting anyone but themselves.
John Rawls book Theory of Justice does not include any statements on reality. The book never references reality or mentions any situation where his theory can take place.
I don't think I mind Rawls that much.
Cause it is so generalized you could apply his theory to anything.
You could be a restaurant manager and use the veil of ignorance to give raises. As opposed to giving raises to people who go out drinking with you and laugh at your jokes.
You could be in a communist society and still use the 'veil of ignorance' to make procedures.
But at the same, I won't lie, I don't vote with the veil of ignorance. I vote for the person that is talking about my interests and says things like, "I'm not giving tax cuts to the rich, fuck the man." Because that emotionally appeals to me.
If I was a judge, and some half italian blue collar kid came before me, I probably would probably be lenient
I think if i was judge and it was a mexican kid or an upper class business men, people i've hardly ever spent time and have no real emotional attachment to, I would try to put on the veil of ignorance to do what was right. But I know I would be more lenient to blue collar people and african-americans because I've spent my life around them and have emotions concerning them.
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Today I walked out of work
I'm a cook.
I know how to cook.
If you give some food, I can cook it.
I'm not like a chef, I've never touched duck or made anything fancy.
But I can cook in stupid restaurants.
I started working at Lone Star two years and three months ago.
I was hired in at 6.50 an hour.
I dishwashed for nine months.
Then was moved to the cook line.
I started out as an appitizer cook and got a raise that got me to 7.75 an hour.
My last raise was december of 07.
They told me that if I learned to do other things, expo, broil, and prep work. They would pay me more.
They told me if I picked up morning shifts on the weekend I would get paid more.
They told me if I helped people I would get paid more.
I did all such things.
I learned how to do the grill, but I never got good at it. I could replace someone though when needed, which happened often.
I was the only person there usually on friday and saturday nights that knew how to do prep work. Which meant when things ran out, I was the only person with the skills that could prep up some food.
Last year not many raises were given out because the kitchen manager was pregnant and said quote, "I'm pregnant and don't feel like filling out the paperwork."
Two grill cooks GOT FIRED, and when they were hired back, they were hired in for 8.75, one dollar more than me. I've never been fired.
So today I'm talking to the cute prep girl and I say, "I'm thinking about going to red lobster to apply, they hire their cooks in at 8."
She looked at me funny and said, "I got hired in at 8.25."
It was like someone put a knife in my head.
I said to the fat useless prep cook, "Do you make more than 8 too?"
He nodded his fat head yes.
Both of the prep workers can't cook and haven't been there for longer than six months.
It must noted that it isn't only me, there is one cook that knows every position and makes less than I do and has been there for two years. And a cook that has been there for 5 years and only makes 8.50.
Yeah, this is my life.
Maybe I'll go and work at red lobster.
I know how to cook.
If you give some food, I can cook it.
I'm not like a chef, I've never touched duck or made anything fancy.
But I can cook in stupid restaurants.
I started working at Lone Star two years and three months ago.
I was hired in at 6.50 an hour.
I dishwashed for nine months.
Then was moved to the cook line.
I started out as an appitizer cook and got a raise that got me to 7.75 an hour.
My last raise was december of 07.
They told me that if I learned to do other things, expo, broil, and prep work. They would pay me more.
They told me if I picked up morning shifts on the weekend I would get paid more.
They told me if I helped people I would get paid more.
I did all such things.
I learned how to do the grill, but I never got good at it. I could replace someone though when needed, which happened often.
I was the only person there usually on friday and saturday nights that knew how to do prep work. Which meant when things ran out, I was the only person with the skills that could prep up some food.
Last year not many raises were given out because the kitchen manager was pregnant and said quote, "I'm pregnant and don't feel like filling out the paperwork."
Two grill cooks GOT FIRED, and when they were hired back, they were hired in for 8.75, one dollar more than me. I've never been fired.
So today I'm talking to the cute prep girl and I say, "I'm thinking about going to red lobster to apply, they hire their cooks in at 8."
She looked at me funny and said, "I got hired in at 8.25."
It was like someone put a knife in my head.
I said to the fat useless prep cook, "Do you make more than 8 too?"
He nodded his fat head yes.
Both of the prep workers can't cook and haven't been there for longer than six months.
It must noted that it isn't only me, there is one cook that knows every position and makes less than I do and has been there for two years. And a cook that has been there for 5 years and only makes 8.50.
Yeah, this is my life.
Maybe I'll go and work at red lobster.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Everybody is really happy
Everybody is really happy that the steelers won.
Old men in Mcdonalds missing teeth were smiling and laughing.
Students at ysu are smiling and laughing
my co-workers are smiling and laughing
it is really amazing
Old men in Mcdonalds missing teeth were smiling and laughing.
Students at ysu are smiling and laughing
my co-workers are smiling and laughing
it is really amazing
Monday, February 02, 2009
stereotype
today in social and political philosophy someone said I was stereotyping because I said that after the sixties blacks, women, and workers became like the male bourgeoisie, they became consumerist lunatics.
Someone starting yelling I was stereotyping.
I think it was because they weren't understanding anything I was saying mentioning blacks and women in anyway but, "They are great and going great" in a college classroom is somehow illegal.
It is like
A person can say, "The American people are consumerist assholes."
But to say, "Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and women are consumerist assholes" is somehow incorrect.
Even though Whites, blacks, Hispanics, and women are America.
This country is really fucked up.
Like I know if I wrote a story about four women going to a bridal show, and I wrote in a tone that these women were retarded for going there.
Somebody would write I hated women and was an asshole.
also I would like to say that philosophy teachers who do not describe things, who do not use anecdotes I do not believe know what they are talking about.
my philosophy teacher instead of answering questions, always goes up to the board makes a diagram, or makes us learn game theory.
he never, no matter how hard you try, will DESCRIBE anything. Will site reality. Will tell a story that illustrates the meaning of what he is saying.
He just keeps rattling off random things he's read like an actor reciting random scenes he was in.
Someone starting yelling I was stereotyping.
I think it was because they weren't understanding anything I was saying mentioning blacks and women in anyway but, "They are great and going great" in a college classroom is somehow illegal.
It is like
A person can say, "The American people are consumerist assholes."
But to say, "Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and women are consumerist assholes" is somehow incorrect.
Even though Whites, blacks, Hispanics, and women are America.
This country is really fucked up.
Like I know if I wrote a story about four women going to a bridal show, and I wrote in a tone that these women were retarded for going there.
Somebody would write I hated women and was an asshole.
also I would like to say that philosophy teachers who do not describe things, who do not use anecdotes I do not believe know what they are talking about.
my philosophy teacher instead of answering questions, always goes up to the board makes a diagram, or makes us learn game theory.
he never, no matter how hard you try, will DESCRIBE anything. Will site reality. Will tell a story that illustrates the meaning of what he is saying.
He just keeps rattling off random things he's read like an actor reciting random scenes he was in.
Sunday, February 01, 2009
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