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Title: Wow, We Suck
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Huffington Post
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Published: Sep 15, 2007
Author: Jonathan Schwarz
Post Date: 2007-09-15 01:07:40 by kiki
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Views: 232
Comments: 11
With the Bush administration clearly heading toward a catastrophic attack on Iran with little chance they'll be stopped, now is a good time to consider how much everyone involved in this process sucks. By this I don't mean Bush blah Republicans blah suck. That's far too easy. Any honest evaluation would find significant blame lies elsewhere. I suck I can't emphasize this enough. I won't go into detail because it's so embarrassing, but the difference between what I've done and could have done is gigantic. In particular, it took me decades to figure out how American society works, which is as humiliating as taking thirty years to figure out tic tac toe. And I'm extending my suckiness by complaining about it publicly. In a blog post. I really, really suck. Everyone I know sucks My family and friends don't feel powerful because none of us is Rupert Murdoch. But on any rational scale--comparative or historical--we have enormous freedom and resources. Have we utilized even 5% of these? No. That's because we don't truly believe people in other countries are as real as we are. We've also failed to imagine the likely consequences to ourselves from our inaction. This is particularly distasteful because we're living in the first time in history when non-saintly humans can figure this stuff out, if they want to. Clearly we don't want to. We suck. Liberal blogs suck Arthur Silber is absolutely right about this. The blogosphere esucks. The anti-war movement sucks Afghanistan? Okay, that was impossible. Iraq? Well...September 11th, etc. But Iran? If you can't stop the third war in six years--one that's going to happen because shredding infants with flechettes is the last remaining activity that provides William Kristol sexual gratification--you should change your name from "anti-war movement" to "pro-sucking movement." Democrats suck Tautological. Democrats=suck. Americans suck We started out as thirteen colonies clinging to the eastern seaboard. Then we conquered the entire continent. Then we ended up with military bases in a hundred other countries. Now we're researching how to drop tungsten rods on people from space. Yet we remain convinced we're really nice. My country 'tis of suck. Human beings suck We've been at this "civilization" thing for 6,000 years. We've figured out fire, and making extremely tall buildings that don't fall over, and even crossing plums with apricots. Yet we've made zero progress on our main problem: slaughtering each other in generous megadeath quantities. This suggests the error is indeed bred in the bone. In Latin, our species is called homo suckapiens suckapiens. Planet Earth sucks Life is centered on everybody eating others until they themselves get eaten. And their entire lifespan is spent worrying about being eaten, which always happens in the end anyway. This whole setup sucks. The universe sucks Its apparent meaningless wouldn't be so bad if existence were solely pleasurable. In my experience, this is not the case. 13.7 billion years of suck. In conclusion, I hate to claim there's any point to this, because that would detract from its meta-suckiness. Nevertheless, success is more likely to follow from a clear-eyed appraisal of a situation, rather than hubristic fantasies. That's the theory, anyway. It admittedly sucks.
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#1. To: kiki (#0)
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Wow, this article SUCKS! Yeah, it was easy.... but I couldn't resist.
 | Capitalism is NOT an economic system, it's a RELIGION for ASSHOLES! |
#2. To: Elliott Jackalope (#1)
Well, yeah, it WAS sucking easy, but then you was right too! Too sucking right! But then the author of the sucking piece is right too!!! Too sucking rights in one post! Gotta be a sucking record in there some sucking where.......
Yeah, it was easy....
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest.
#3. To: kiki (#0)
Agreed. I met a fellow not to long ago and after a long talk we both made a pact that if the big humanity ending meteor is heading for earth, we'll be out there resting in lawn chairs and sipping a brew while we cheer the meteor on.
Human beings suck
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death" - Me.
#4. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#3)
I do not suck. I have done all that I could for as long as I could.
#5. To: titorite (#4)
So did I, and all it earned me was pain, grief, and constantly being alone. I found that telling the truth and behind honest is the quickest ways to make enemies. I'm losing my home, my family, my freedoms, and maybe even my life because I refuse to lie, cheat, and hurt others. If that's the world we live in then I say pull the plug.
I do not suck. I have done all that I could for as long as I could.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death" - Me.
#6. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#5)
You pull the plug then. I will continue fighting the 911 octopus. It has earned me alot of trouble but I have converted a few sheep. And I have linked up with others. And I have met one of the most beautiful women in my life! Even if none of this was the case I would still tell the truth for truths sake. Its just what I believe. I also believe in action. Telling the truth alone does not count for much. Being willing to ACT on what you know is what makes a man worth calling a man. IMHO.
#7. To: titorite (#6)
Even if none of this was the case I would still tell the truth for truths sake. Agreed. Being honest always works out for the best in the long run - even IF it brings short-term misery. If it weren't for lying being so thoroughly ingrained into and practiced by Americans, our country wouldn't be in the shape it's in right now; because the "worst of the worst" that participate are the bankers and ones we elect.
You pull the plug then. I will continue fighting the 911 octopus. It has earned me alot of trouble but I have converted a few sheep. And I have linked up with others. And I have met one of the most beautiful women in my life!
99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
Steven Wright
#8. To: kiki (#0)
My wife's girlfriend's husband tried to kill himself with pills but he only messed up his stomach. Then he put a gun at his head but he never fired it. Then, 'they' tied him up and vacuumed his internal organs and he got fired.
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
#9. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#5)
OUCH - that does suck!!! BUT (as hard as it is) you have to ask yourself - "IF you're losing them because you refuse to lie, cheat, and hurt others; then doesn't that mean that they are on the "other side of the fence" on those issues??? AND if that's the case, then MAYBE, JUST MAYBE aren't you possibly a little better off without them??? After all, that means you will be freed up to find someone that actually DOES have morals - someone you will be more content with because you share the same ideals. I went through the same thing - and it worked out for the better.
I'm losing my home, my family, ... because I refuse to lie, cheat, and hurt others.
99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
Steven Wright
#10. To: innieway (#9)
It all does come out in the wash...no matter how much it sucks at the time...the light at the end of that tunnel is always brighter and warmer than where you were to begin with! JMO!
I went through the same thing - and it worked out for the better.
Killing One Person Is Murder...Killing 100,000 is Foreign Policy!
#11. To: titorite (#6)
If your name means you are a follower of John Titor, what's the point? According to titorites, he has already come back in time from 2036 and told us of the nuclear war killing 3 billion people which occurred in 2015.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
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