I sat over the past month and contemplated the landscape of 2020, and how I've changed. So here are the ten things that I considered 'locked-down' and part of my life now:
1. I'm absolutely skeptical of politicians (Republican or Democrat). I'd probably trust a drug dealer more....than a DC politician. Trying to refer to the President as 'Jesus' or 'Satan'....doesn't work any more.
2. I really don't need the Sunday political chat shows any longer. I can' t think of any reason that I'd watch them. I'd rather watch Japanese monster movies, or 1930 cowboy westerns.
3. I'm basically finished with both CNN and Fox News. If I'm in an airport....I'll find a seat which does not face a TV screen with CNN.
4. I can't think of any reason why I'm concerned or interested in BREXIT. Whether the isle flounders or survives now....makes no difference to me.
5. I consider the FBI politically compromised, and will not consent to any conversation with them. The whole top-level (top fifty managers) probably have to be forced-out.
6. I seriously can't think of any reason why I'd want to live in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, NY City, SF, or LA. You couldn't even offer me a $150k job in these cities...to get me there. I see these six cities losing 10-percent of their population over the next six to eight years. In the case of NY City for 2021....it might be half-a-million who walk out.
7. I've pretty much accepted that for the remainder of my life....at least while living in Germany.....I'll be wearing a mask for public shopping. I seriously don't see Covid-19 going away....not in three years....ten years....or even fifty years. The odds of me getting on a plane for nine hours of flight-time, with a mask? It probably won't ever happen again.
8. I seriously believe that 30-percent of the population need a 50-hour a week physical job (maybe even filling sandbags) to keep them occupied and focused. Way too many people living in dad's garage or basement, with no real job except delivering pizzas at age 32.
9. I really don't need some fake intellectual telling me how foreign affairs works, or how it's a 'art'. When they appear on TV now....I hit the mute-button fairly quickly.
10. The last people on Earth, who need to lecture me about ethics or 'truth'....are a bunch of computer geeks with no sense of reality or the world itself. To this end, I've logged-off Facebook and refuse to participate.
my dad was a religious zealot and it made for a pretty repressed childhood . we didnt have a tv in our house and it made us feel rather lost when school pals would discuss the latest " programs " .
ReplyDeleteat my current age of 62 i can very much appreciate his end goal ( to raise kids who backed off while all the lemmings were gleefully pouring over the cliff ) .
re: facebook .
i carry a flip " brick " . i use it when i need to make a call , dont answer it otherwise , even if i could hear it ring ( a bit of tinnitus ) , but if it does become a nuisance i'll replace it with an actual brick .
i saw some tv at a dentist office yesterday . the men looked like fags and the women looked like brainless thots .
no thanks .