And just like that, i'm stage right as rain. Up on the downside? It's hard being the only practitioner of Bottleism, mostly because it's so hard to think while talking to myself.
I suppose you can blame Ozzy Osbourne's No More Tours Tour for that. Maybe it was No More Tours Tour 2, i dunno. I am of course referring to seeing the news that the student loan interest deferral has been pushed back to May instead of a couple weeks from now. Crazy considering i got the email that the transfer from Navient to whothehellever was finalized yesterday or the day before or whatever. It's like Gladys said, you have to know which hallway you're walking which direction. I'm sure i mentioned in writing that sound travels freely down here. Compy for the confirmation...
C: it just so happens i read that second book recently, and yes that's exactly what you said.
B: ok, good, glad i'm not crazier than the crazy i fully admit to being.
Now, we're halfway through this 4th book and i'm out of records. That's a lie of course, i just don't feel like listening to a lot of them at the moment. Logically we should find an Ozzy or Black Sabbath album to listen to while i logorhate all over the ethersphere; roll your own.
Look, i didn't grow up in Soviet Russia or newly Republicanized Iceland like Björk (she says it rhymes with "jerk" in case you didn't know), and i don't have any firsthand experience with being in "government," but i do have a fair bit more than professional experience being me. I'm the leading world expert, you might say. Stoic Skepticism. I neither believe in absolute knowledge, nor care much about the whimsical oscillations of pleasure and pain. Que será será, except of course that it's not in any way mandatory. Nothing HAS to be the way it is, and you certainly don't have to believe it if you don't want to.
I choose to view life as an endless series of smashing your face against the wall because that's what people seem to want to build. What i've noticed is that other people seem to be very confused as they watch me just walk through them, or around them. None of that garbage actually affects me, it affects other people who then freak out and infiltrate my secret lair of minding my own business.
The saving grace at the moment is that most of the Republican legislation being drafted is deposited directly into a garbage can, but sadly the Democrats aren't making any headway because they aren't writing any legislation and when they do they vote against it because it isn't mildly left of hard right enough.
This might sting a lot, but Biden isn't Left, Sanders isn't Left, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn't Left. Same argument i've been making all along. How can you be a Capitalist if you don't own a factory and employ thousands of workers both in house and by proxy? You can't, that's the definition of Capitalism.
What's the real issue here? Well, us people can't pay our debts without money, and we can't get money without being taxed by the same people who handed it to us. If the government pays that debt, i owe the income tax on 200,000. I don't feel like actually doing math so let's go overboard and say 40% effective tax rate. That's 80,000 due the next time April rolls around. I currently have 10,000 of that. So yeah, not good. What's the opposite, no income tax and no payoff? How would that help? The answer is that both things have to happen simultaneously, or the whole thing really does have to crash into a pile of rubble. Is the outcome actually any different in either direction? Does it actually matter if you intentionally or negligently drive your car off the cliff?
If you've read this far you're probably wondering where this hallway is going. I don't know. I do know the next room is all about how the roles get switched when you're actually out here living it.
Just to show a baseline let's say the money supply (aka national debt) averages 30,000 per person. How do you create one legitimate billionaire, a person who actually possesses a billion dollars? Well, you can take away 33,333.33 peoples' money. You could take 333.33 dollars from 3 million people and leave them with an average of 29,666.66 each. 10 billionaires? 20? 30?
I'm just a regular schmuck on the street, the only money i have access to is the money that trickled down from some billionaire. It doesn't matter what I think or feel or want or hope for, i have to wake up and put on pants and go do whatever it is makes a person with more money than me more money than that so they'll hand me some of it. Does it matter if that person is nice or terrible? Sure, of course it matters, but only if you actually have the ability to choose, and again only if consistently choosing to associate with the nice people lowers the number of terrible people. I worry that it actually increases the number of terrible people.
At the end of the day, all decisions are made by the person who decided them based on the known and unknown consequences. I can't do anything about it, there's like 95 degrees of Kevin Bacons between me and the President, and i'd be willing to bet close to 94 of them don't want to be the person who decides anything. If i wanted to waste the time and energy to write them a letter it would really just say "do it or don't, you wanted to be in charge so you get the responsibility of being in charge. You're allowed to quit as far as i'm concerned. In the meantime, i have a building full of chicken poop to shovel."
My opinion has always been, and probably always will be, we don't need a centralized governmental authority making poorly informed laws that do nothing. Instead, we need people who will do what they say they are going to do and clean up the mess afterward. You don't need 47 pieces of paper and 12 initials after your name on a cheap plaque on an expensive door; the results should speak for themselves.
It's not a governor's or mayor's job to tell us how to live our lives, it their job to make sure that some jerk doesn't sell us a monorail we don't need then tear down our houses to build it.
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