Kelly Crigger's Blog - Posts Tagged "reality"
Reality Check
People who expect the world will ever be a peaceful place are living in denial and don’t understand that there will always be aggressive people who will resort to violence to get what they want from something tiny like a piece of candy to the entire European continent (remember Hitler?).
You can’t breed aggression out of humans or use internet activism to wish it away. There are people who like to fight and even gain enjoyment from it. Always has been and always will be. The best thing you can do is prepare for it.
But the bigger issue here is denial in the face of overwhelming fact. There’s the world we want to live in and the one we actually DO live in.
Illegal immigrants are here. Millions of them. Accept it instead of wishing them away. If you want them to go away, make them citizens, create an Alien Tax and set it at 50%. They’ll leave lickety split.
Drugs are here to stay whether you like it or not. Legalize it, isolate it, control it, and tax it. Drug violence will disappear and the government will be wealthy again.
The NFL will never export itself successfully outside the US borders. Quit trying.
This acceptance works two ways. I hate lazy people but as much as I rant about them they never seem to change. They’re always there…wasting oxygen in my line of sight.
So maybe it’s unrealistic for me to think that we can prod or motivate these people to get off of welfare and work. Maybe laziness is like any other human characteristic and just needs to be accepted, isolated, and avoided.
But then everyone would call you prejudiced. And that would make you angry enough to resort to violence.
You can’t win.
Curmudgeonism: A Surly Man's Guide to Midlife
You can’t breed aggression out of humans or use internet activism to wish it away. There are people who like to fight and even gain enjoyment from it. Always has been and always will be. The best thing you can do is prepare for it.
But the bigger issue here is denial in the face of overwhelming fact. There’s the world we want to live in and the one we actually DO live in.
Illegal immigrants are here. Millions of them. Accept it instead of wishing them away. If you want them to go away, make them citizens, create an Alien Tax and set it at 50%. They’ll leave lickety split.
Drugs are here to stay whether you like it or not. Legalize it, isolate it, control it, and tax it. Drug violence will disappear and the government will be wealthy again.
The NFL will never export itself successfully outside the US borders. Quit trying.
This acceptance works two ways. I hate lazy people but as much as I rant about them they never seem to change. They’re always there…wasting oxygen in my line of sight.
So maybe it’s unrealistic for me to think that we can prod or motivate these people to get off of welfare and work. Maybe laziness is like any other human characteristic and just needs to be accepted, isolated, and avoided.
But then everyone would call you prejudiced. And that would make you angry enough to resort to violence.
You can’t win.
Curmudgeonism: A Surly Man's Guide to Midlife
