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I'm liberal, just so long as I can sit on my couch at the same time.
And under normal circumstances, I respect the people that actually set out to change things.
But its when they try to enlist my help that it bothers me.
It could just be because I'm lazy. (Hey, THERES a thought!) But there is an underlying reason.
They make everything my fault.
Their strategy is not to convince me, intellectually, that this is a good thing to do. They try to tug on my heart-strings, make me feel ashamed, like I owe them something. Like money.
Yeah, fuck that.
Heres an example.
I climbed to the highest point of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park, where you can stand in a giant Sears Tower kinda deal and see all the mountains.
And there are big signs that say (these are my words), "Hey, you wanna know something? The reason the mountains are 'smokey'? YOUR FAULT. Ask us how you can make minor ammends in attempts to salve your guilty conscience today!"
My first reaction was, "I climbed my ass all the way up here for a guilt trip?"
Animal shelter ads. Global warming. The holes in the ozone layer. The Vietnam fucking War. They just can't not pitch it to make you feel guilty.
I am so brainwashed with that shit that when I saw pictures of erosion caused by the ocean, a process that has taken longer that the human race has been alive, and realized that a certain rock was going to tumble into the sea in a couple of millenia, and thought, "Oh shit, thats gonna fuck up the ecosystem and it'll be all our fault. Again."
This is why I'm liking Marine Bio so much. Ecosystems and climates change all the fucking time. This is a proven fact, and I am sick of people trying to guilt money out of me to 'fix it'. Its fucked. Leave it alone. I refuse to pay for other people's mistakes, and I sure as hell am not paying you.
And btw? The Great Smokey Mountains? WERE NAMED THE GREAT SMOKEY MOUNTAINS BEFORE THEY INVENTED AIR POLLUTION. Shut the fuck up, you tree-hugging, self-flagellating asshats. You don't fool me.
... I think I need to lay off the Fruit Loops. They seem to make me angry. ::hands::
And under normal circumstances, I respect the people that actually set out to change things.
But its when they try to enlist my help that it bothers me.
It could just be because I'm lazy. (Hey, THERES a thought!) But there is an underlying reason.
They make everything my fault.
Their strategy is not to convince me, intellectually, that this is a good thing to do. They try to tug on my heart-strings, make me feel ashamed, like I owe them something. Like money.
Yeah, fuck that.
Heres an example.
I climbed to the highest point of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park, where you can stand in a giant Sears Tower kinda deal and see all the mountains.
And there are big signs that say (these are my words), "Hey, you wanna know something? The reason the mountains are 'smokey'? YOUR FAULT. Ask us how you can make minor ammends in attempts to salve your guilty conscience today!"
My first reaction was, "I climbed my ass all the way up here for a guilt trip?"
Animal shelter ads. Global warming. The holes in the ozone layer. The Vietnam fucking War. They just can't not pitch it to make you feel guilty.
I am so brainwashed with that shit that when I saw pictures of erosion caused by the ocean, a process that has taken longer that the human race has been alive, and realized that a certain rock was going to tumble into the sea in a couple of millenia, and thought, "Oh shit, thats gonna fuck up the ecosystem and it'll be all our fault. Again."
This is why I'm liking Marine Bio so much. Ecosystems and climates change all the fucking time. This is a proven fact, and I am sick of people trying to guilt money out of me to 'fix it'. Its fucked. Leave it alone. I refuse to pay for other people's mistakes, and I sure as hell am not paying you.
And btw? The Great Smokey Mountains? WERE NAMED THE GREAT SMOKEY MOUNTAINS BEFORE THEY INVENTED AIR POLLUTION. Shut the fuck up, you tree-hugging, self-flagellating asshats. You don't fool me.
... I think I need to lay off the Fruit Loops. They seem to make me angry. ::hands::
