Dirty Tim

The blogosphere is riddled much wordage on how evil George Bush, or how un-American the people who hate him are. Lots of talk, talk, talk, as everybody tries to rally a team without leaving the sidelines, without risking injury or inconvenience. It’s either that or people are just venting without the intent to have any kind of concrete result come from their words at all. I am trying to understand why articles about something are so popular inspite of the fact that nobody is doing anything real either way.

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1. Show them movies but without the endings. Refuse to show them the endings unless they talk.

2. Rub pieces of Styrofoam together or run fingernails down an old-fashioned chalkboard.

3. Show them porn without the sound and with the faces and genital areas blacked out.

4. Tickle restrained, blindfolded prisoners with feathers.

5. Give them the same food day after day.

6. Show them pictures of cute, dead animals, day after day after day.

7. Restrain them and sound of a whining mosquito at random intervals.

8. Give them a pet monkey and then take it away the same day.

9. Wax their eyebrows.

1 Phallic Obsession
Much of the desire to legislate morality comes from an obsession with the phallus, and the compulsion to think and concern oneself with the issues of the phallus. Nobody really cares about lesbians getting married, they care about penises sword-fighting. Imagine the stuff you can read and look at under the guise of “research”. Imagine what you can contemplate. If your longings are consciously or subconsciously repressed then turning over sexuality in your mind has to feel like relief, even if you are condemning the very things that you desperately want.

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1. Dumb it all down
Make things really simple, even if they weren't particularly complicated before. Idiots want the payoff of having a skill or "knowledge" without the unpleasantness of having to study or practice. You need to oversimplify life, convince them by summarizing and redacting, knowing that anything requiring education or even common sense to grasp will go completely over their heads. They need the comfort of being told that there are certain things they don't have to know. They want the difficult issues of life taken from their hands. Boil complexity down to black and white and they will follow you into the jaws of hell out of relief and gratitude.
2. Terrify them
Every single human is terrified of the unknown. Some of us try to learn in order to deal with it, while some go into denial, and others choose to  just remain fearful. Morons tend to avoid the first option, due to a tendency to not understand shit and to be bored by the sheer difficulty of reading. The third option makes people pliable. Note that we have already established that they are not fond of thinking, fear only makes that worse. Simpletons usually know very little of history, and cannot understand long-term goals, making them very much like sheep. Myopic and ignorant. You can convince them to do anything as long as you make the alternative irreversible and dangerous.
3. Be one of them
People want a face they can relate to. If you are selling a product you need a spokesman, not just a logo. As has already been stated in this post, morons have trouble with understanding things. Therefore if you tell them something, they need to know if they like you before they decide whether or not to go along with it. It's an easy way to make difficult decisions. You buy from the salesman who makes you laugh and feel generally comfortable, not the one who merely tells you lots of stuff about the product. You listen to a preacher because he makes you feel good, feel at home, not because what he says makes sense. What intellectuals usually fail to grasp is that stupid people really are not interested in knowing things, truth is not important to them, therefore things like good reportage, thoughtful writing, accurate analysis, logic, cannot sway them one way or the other.
4. Isolate intellectuals
You really don't want them on your side unless they are all the way on YOUR side. You do this by stating an outrageous principle, or doing something outrageous in a way that only the smart people will find it offensive. You camouflage your motives, but not all the way, you let the intelligentsia peek inside. Intelligent debate is a meritocratic, the smart will grasp, the dumb will fall by the wayside. You wind up with smart people buying the same books, visiting the same websites, posting on the same messageboards, watching the same movies. They become identifiable because they aren't with your flock. You get an intellectual apartheid wherein your enemies can be rounded up or intimidated without menacing the whole population.
5. Be very visual
The subtle joke does not work, for the fool you need the crass, loud sight-gag. Anything you use to harness the fool population must be something they can see. Fools need to see blackened lungs to stop smoking, they need to see concentration camps to know that their government was evil, Kaposi's sarcoma to know why condoms are important.  They need pretty pictures and flashing graphics, for evidence of this surf Myspace randomly for a while, read the profiles with the pretty pictures and big fonts.

Originally published here.

Tags: Life, People, Fools

You have all these people who fight and struggle all their lives and die poor, insignificant, and alone. You have all these other people who never try anything, make no effort to achieve, never fight for a dream, and they also wind up poor and alone. The second group looks down on the first. Supposedly, even fruitless effort is worth more than no effort at all. What’s really happening there is that people like to see you struggle, they like to see someone who has a harder life than they do. It makes them feel better about themselves and like they have done something more with their lives because they have that unfortunate, struggling simpleton to compare themselves to.

This is why white people like black people who work hard, and Mexicans. However hard your job is, it feels better when you see that poor brown fellow working in the sun.

Originall published here

 1. Freedom to Be Greedy
I really am not being sarcastic. You want to be a successful capitalist, this is the only emblem of success you will ever have in this life.  If you have ever lived in another country you know that the greatest danger to you being rampantly capitalistic is the fact that you have to pay bribes in order to do so. Every country on this planet actively works to ensure the poverty of its citizens, thereby rendering them vulnerable and compliant. The Third World is not an accident, it is the result of successive governments brilliance in the arts of thievery and deception. America does less of this. Wealth is still seen as success rather than the failure of the government to guarantee your destitution.
2. You Are Free to Personally Berate Politicians
Mockery of the leaders will always have dire consequences unless you are in the public eye. In America, you will always be supported in your right to do so by somebody. If you can publicly scorn somebody in power your speech is as free as it will ever get. Elsewhere, the populace is riven by self-interest and centuries old bigotry which keeps anybody from looking at anything honestly.
3. People Still Care About Freedom
You have no idea how broken people elsewhere are. The accept the excesses of their governments with a kind of apathy that simply does not exist here. The concept of speaking out seems to require more effort than they are able to muster, and being indignant is pointless. In other countries people accept what is given to them and try to survive within their systems of corruption. Apathy is contagious, and takes generations to build to where it is a cultural force, America still loves the rebel, still loves the man willing to break the line and stand up for something.
4. Poverty is a Legitimate Social Condition
Anywhere on Earth being poor means that you have fallen from the ranks of the human. In America the poor exist. They may still not be exactly equal to the rest of us, but they are visible in the culture to an extent. The reason for the difference is that having pulled yourself up from the depths of poverty is seen as success here, whereas elsewhere it is something to be ashamed of, to be hidden. Having grown up poor in America means that you have overcome, not that you have a shameful past.
5. The Sense of Obligation
Of course it is loathed in Europe, it is loathed everywhere, but merely as way of disguising envy. Americans feel that they have a right to a standard of life above the Third World. That they have a right to luxury, a right to survive. A sense of the absolute right to anything is unique to Americans are seen as "spoilt children" because they think that they have a right to consume, when really it's what everybody else wants to do.
6. The Sense of Having a Shot
America has a reputation, and provides the illusion of being a meritocracy. Of course the whole notion is mythical, but there is something wonderful about a country that pursues a mythical ideal simply because it sounds good. You land in America without a penny in your pocket and you can still make something of yourself. The Home of Enterprise. That right there is as close to Utopia as humanity will ever have.
7. Deserved Hedonism
Working hard and paying your dues means that you deserve to have some fun. Deserve. You earn the right to party, to get drunk, to dance, to party, to blow off steam. Life rewards you with pleasure, it's that simple, anything else is injustice. Fun everywhere else is luxury, is for the privileged, the handful with connections or who have been fortunate enough to be ignored.
8. Space
Size, variety, places to hide, places to forget, niches within which only somebody like you can survive. It's all here, and it's nowhere else. You meet one Australian, I can guarantee that you have met a few thousand, whereas you meet one American, only maybe. There is space here to allow different groups of people to develop differently, enough divides to ensure variety, interesting mixes, odd mutations, and the open minds to nurture them. Inbreeding is endemic everywhere else.
9. Exotica
Bigotry serves to ensure that the melting pot never ever gets stirred all that well, but the swirls of melted crayons still look pretty from afar. There is always a new experiences somewhere here, whereas old, small countries are books that do not stand up well to more than one reading.
10. Sophistication
It's easy to know more about life here, about excess, about darkness, about how people are. All the things that are hidden elsewhere is in the culture, all openly discussed, written about. It is easier here than anywhere else on this planet to let go of your Old World or Third World ignorance.

France deals with angry, violent foreigners on their own soil every day. Angry Arab foreigners. They handle not just interracial crime, but intercultural as well. This makes them better-suited to deal with the kind of issues America now faces, than, well, America. Yes, I said it.
In this situation the Frenchies would kind of know what they were doing, while America does not. While what I said is, in fact, truth, it does not really fall on either side of the political spectrum and there fore will likely not be espoused by anybody but myself.

The liberals would like the US Army to pack up and leave Iraq, but does America, in spite of a fear of casualties, have the stomach to lose to another set of third-worlders? Is getting your ass kicked by a second set of (poor non-Caucasian people) going to sit well with the Heartland? First the gooks and now the ragheads. It will however mesh well with the liberal cause. Yet another set of plucky nonwhites have chased America from their borders.

Why is Dog-fighting Considered Evil? 

Dogs fight naturally do they not? What exactly is wrong with using this natural instinct for entertainment/gambling purposes? Isn’t this something like watching a sunset because it’s pretty or enjoying a pretty flower? All natural things. Pain and suffering is natural, and we enjoy it when the opposing quarterback gets crushed by our team’s defense. We kill cows and chickens every day and partake of their tasty remains, killing dogs (or using them to kill each other) is no different. So why do people find Michael Vick’s little enterprise so evil?  1. For one thing, the liberals have to wiggle themselves back over to the middle retain some kind of credibility with the conservatives they mock. Coming down hard on a black man makes them look “objective”. 2. They also have to retain credibility with the animal rights people. Making this out to be uglier than it is and feigning hysterics accomplishes that.  3. Conservatives have to show the lefties that they are not mindlessly cruel assholes. They like animals too. 4. No football news currently so people need an excuse to rehash the old how-good-is-he-really-? debate.

I, for one, am at a loss as to what makes Obama interesting. Surely there cannot be that great a dearth of well-spoken black men with political ambitions. Didn't Alan Keyes run for president? Is it, perhaps, that he is lightskinned? The two viable prospects for black presidency have both been lightskinned. If there is any cultural flaw that can be proven accurate about white America, it is it's inability to empathize with, or to respect people who do not look significantly like white Americans. This means that Michael Vick is truly fucked, and it means that we have a blueprint for a black president: lightskinned and well-spoken.Technorati Tags: Barack Obama, Alan Keyes, Colin Powell, light-skinned, black, African American, politics, political, race, racism, racial