Friday - July 15, 2005

P.O.R.N.

P.O.R.N: Purveyors Of Repeated Negativity

Optimism is dead! Long live pessimism! Here we start another day on planet Earth, fellow humans. Everything sucks and you’re all losers. Everything you do today will be wrong. Nothing is worth a damn anymore. Why even bother to get out of bed. Men, your penis isn’t large enough or hard enough. Women, your vagina stinks. Your teeth aren’t white enough, your kitchen has germs everywhere just waiting to kill you. Your husband doesn’t appreciate you. Your wife doesn’t love you, your parents hate you. More foolish soldiers died today in Iraq. The terrorists are winning. You retirement is unsafe and you don’t make enough money. Everything costs too much. And if you suffer from [insert symptom] then you need to talk to your doctor about [latest miracle pill from Merck/Lilly/Pfizer]. In tonight’s News, we examine crack babies, drug gangs, the crooks in Washington, corporate crime, floods in Bangladesh, murder in Spain, bombings in Israel and how much longer this drought will continue before global warming wipes us all out. Speaking of Washington, Democrats today called Republicans more nasty names and Republicans responded with “yeah, and yo momma”. Salaries of sports figures have skyrocketed to new highs with a new $50 billion contract signed between [pick a team] and [pick any prima-donna pitcher/quarterback/forward/goalie], but that’s OK because [pick any prima-donna pitcher/quarterback/forward/goalie] needs the money to pay for his cocaine addiction and/or pay off civil suits in rape cases.

How do you feel after reading all that? Depressed? Tired? Frustrated? Is it any wonder that more and more people in this country are taking Prozac, Paxil or any of a dozen anti-depressents currently being marketed by doctors and drug companies? The sun has just barely made it over the horizon and we are all of us already under attack from the P.O.R.N. merchants. The attacks will continue all day long. You will be the recipient of constant barrages of negativity on TV, Radio, newspapers, blog sites, e-mail, snail-mail .... hell, everywhere you turn today you’re going to get hit with another wave of bitter, agonizing .... nihilism. It’s all bad, so why bother? Choose nothing over negative. There is no such thing as positive anymore. All is hateful, all is useless.

The Muslims hate the Christians, the Christians hate each other, the Democrats hate the Republicans, the Republicans hate the socialists, the socialists hate the fascists, the environmentalists hate the business people, the business people hate the poor, the poor hate everyone, the rich hate themselves, the gays hate the straights, the blacks hate the whites, the orientals hate the occidentals, but you know what .... the dolphins don’t care .... they just keep smiling and laughing at all of us.

They say there are only three things we all know for sure:

1- I am here
2- This is now
3- Everything else is just guesswork

On the other hand, I “know a few other things”: I know who I am, I know what I am capable of, I know the sun rose this morning on a beautiful day. I know I live in a “shining city on a hill”. I didn’t have a hangover and I didn’t need any pills to start the day. The air smells good and clean. I feel good. And to all the P.O.R.N. people out there, all I have to say is ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/15/2005 at 10:31 AM   
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