Just Complaining

So this is just a blatant bitch.

I know this chick, and I was thrown into the unfortunate situation where I actually had the displeasure of having to talk to her the other day. She’s a fairly attractive individual, so long as she doesn’t open her mouth. And it’s not that she has an unpleasant voice either, it is that she is unbearably stupid.
But what makes it worse is she is a college graduate, looking to go into grad school, and there are several species of bats that have higher evolved intellects than this girl.

So anyway she was studying for a test, the math test you need to get into grad school. And she asks a question aloud ‘what the hell is a prime number?’.
I should have ignored it. But math is an interest of mine, and I like to be helpful.
‘a prime is any number that can only be divided by itself & one.’ I supplied helpfully.
(for those who don’t know me it might be helpful to add I have green hair as I think it was a factor in her responses)

She gave me a look, like a monkey had learned to talk. And then proceeded to ask someone else, who said the same thing I did.

Now that is pretty insulting, but I figure what the hell.

So out of some desire to be nice I ask what she got her degree in.

‘economics’ she says.

Well now I’m kinda confused, I mean I always assumed economics would require some sort of math competency, so I asked her about what kind of math she had to take for that major.

‘well,’ she says ‘we deal with formulas.’

I’m thinking to myself ‘no fucking shit? I recently heard the English language dealt with words, but I can’t be fucking sure!’

But I say ‘umm, well, yes, but what sort of formulas?’ I genuinely want to know out of curiosity for the field of economics, not interest in this vapid waste of space.

‘it’s kind of complicated’ she says looking at me like I’d never be able to comprehend anything that had to do with higher education, ‘it deals with slopes & stuff.’

again I’m thinking ‘no way, really? Next you’ll be telling me the English language uses nouns!’

at this point I’m annoyed, so I retort ‘most formulas involve things like slopes, I was wondering what sort of math background was required for economics, I was a math major so I’m curious about these sort of things.'

She finally catches on to what I’m asking, and that I’ll understand the answer.

Now this was an odd sensation, I’ve never actually talked to someone who assumed I was ignorant based upon a physical characteristic. Even odder for it to come from one of the dumbest people I’ve met. I weep for the university system that decided that her mind was of a high enough caliber to be considered ‘educated’

Mostly I was annoyed that she could afford college when smart folk everywhere can’t.

Fuck it

-De

Shut Me Up...

Haven’t been posting lately, why?
the pointlessness of existence has been weighing me down.

I’m phenomenally frustrated with my life & my country.

Why do you ask? (I can sense your suspense from here.)

I could point to the weather, it’s sucked around here pretty regularly for the past 2 months. Or, I could point to never having enough money to do as much as I’d like to do.

Or I could point to the impotence I feel as this country(and world) goes right straight to hell.

We are no longer a nation of the proud, the strong. Now we are a nation of victims, weak and pathetic. Yet at the same time we are a bully in the world field. Americans would rather sue someone than own up to their own mistakes. We are regressing into an adolescent nation. We are spoiled rich bastard children, wanting everything handed to us, not understanding that things need to be earned.
Yet at the same time there are quiet multitudes who do just that. They work hard, only to get fucked by some asshole who would rather take the quick handout, demanding ‘their right’ while taking what has been earned from those who have earned it.

We’re, as a nation, forgetting what the true freedoms are, the ones that really matter. Being able to get something super-sized is not a freedom our forefathers fought for. Being able to speak your mind in public is. But now we have segregated ‘free speech zones’ at any function that may be controversial and have protesting. Last time I checked, I thought we were supposed to have 50 full states which were considered ‘free speech zones’. But apparently I was mistaken.

And I don’t think Jefferson penned the bill of rights with the right to sue someone who ‘made my coffee too hot’ in mind. But I’m pretty sure he was serious about that protection from ‘unreasonable search & seizure’ bit.

And I feel like we are entering into a new epoch of religious fervor, where logic & protection from the bigotry, that swarms around religious institutions like flies around a bloated carcass, are becoming luxuries of the past. But hey, why should I complain? We got a few good centuries, out of the whole of human existence, relatively free from assholes who feel it is their ‘god given right’ to dictate how you and I HAVE to live our daily lives. Maybe nazi’s will be back in vogue soon too.

And every day I hear about another environmental horror visited upon this nice little bit of fluff. And watch as our great leader, with his ‘mandate’, sits back to take a bold lead of indifference, or better yet, proactively helping with the destruction of all other life on earth.

6+ billion of us fuckers are crawling around on this ever depreciating pile of dirt, spreading our noxious disease, and making sure no territory goes unmarked by our filth. And I’d be lying if I said I did much myself to make things better.

But, I’m impotent. Erectile dysfunction of the progressive action. Like my fellow americans I’ve mastered the art of turning a blind eye to the bigger picture, wrapping our heads in a fuzzy blanket of the mundane. Blowing up our personal drama, as if they actually matter. Maybe it’s a defense mechanism, maybe it’s just not possible for someone to try & comprehend just how fucked up this world really is.

Oh, and I know what I could do and just how fucking futile it is.

-De