Thoughts; Things I want; I wish people wouldn’t lie about being professionals
Thoughts
Sometimes my brain starts moving fast. Whole stories spread out before me in an instant. And it’s up to me to try and keep up with what I was thinking about.
Things I want
There is nothing a good pair of shoes cannot do.
I’m not talking about beautiful or sparkling or any kind of fancy. I’m talking about a dependable, walkable pair of shoes.
BILLIONS of dollars are being spent on elections. Where the fuck is all that money going???
There are things that I think the government should provide free to every citizen. If the government isn’t able to provide, rich people should make up the rest. Like, they LOVE to put their names all over "charities," and I really hate that the charity organizers can keep so much of the money.
So I think there should be government chosen products–that have gone through a testing and reviewing process and that meet MAXIMUM safety quotas–that rich people can give money to so that shoes, and pants, and shirts, and school supplies, and hygiene devices can be provided to EVERYONE that wants them.
I imagine a site screen with options, and a rich person could choose to be a Doner to the Good of All of Humanity!!! (and thus can be put in the winning of some sort of "everybody wins" contest (remember Summer Book Lists when we were kids? You’d fill in a list of books you’d read (from Scholastic?) and you mailed that slip in and they’d send you a free book. No strings attached. No getting your information sold to brokers.)) And the GOOF Award could be given out to the person that makes the biggest Positive Contribution to Humanity.
Man, sometimes I wish life really was like the Sims and I had a little access to the controls. Upping the Empathy-settings. Letting people rest and relax and clear their minds to look around at how HAPPY they are, or should be.
Sometimes I want to be like "How DARE you steal my identity as Someone Who Wants FREEDOM so you can soft-market fascism to the public! It’s so disgusting. Stop it." toward modern marketing directors.
Like, you’re the marketing director if you’re the one running your account and making all the posts and "saying" all the things that represents your brand to the public. You are the PR. You are the one that’s responsible when you help dismantle the country for Likes and Follows.
You’ve made that bag.
It’s time to stop schilling for evil. I’m pretty sure you have enough money to afford 24/7 security. And if you don’t… Why are you being the public mouthpiece for evil?
Unless you truly believe all those things you insist you don’t believe in, I can’t see being a public representative of fascism. Not in these or any time in the future.
Produce good content. That will get you the attention you want and deserve.
Being "outrageous" for attention can take multiple different levels, and a lot of people are at the point where they still think that being "ironically [racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic]" is a "funny joke to make."–We echo the things we’ve experienced in our pasts.
There have been many times when I’ve been pulled into a huddle with a bunch of people only the people I was with knew. A bunch of strangers to me.
But I imagine never being pulled into a huddle with people, then being pulled into one for the very first time. And it’s the kind where someone is confidently talking at everyone, and most everyone is listening to the story they’re telling.
It could become like a Stephen King moment. That "one crazy incident of your younger years" experience that gets spoken of over and over and over again. A true life-defining moment. Something that will be thought about and dreamt about and folded over and over in a person’s mind until the edges grow smooth and glimmer like magic.
And for someone else, their life is a bunch of those moments. What are life defining to one person, is everyday to somebody else.
And in all those moments, a good pair of shoes is top of the list of things to have.
Wear beautiful stiletto heels. Rock that fashion. But also keep a pair of running shoes in reach. A pair of emergency shoes; they don’t have to be BULKY in your bag. You don’t need all the cushioning and fancy laces or any of that stuff.
I imagine running in an emergency situation, and it would be good to have shoes with good soles and that can handle water contact well. You want to be able to walk over broken glass and sharp stone without cutting your feet to bits. You want to be able to step on hot things and stamp out burning ashes without melting your soles. Also maybe a pair of thigh-high "socks" that offer some protection and support for both running and crawling. They can be worn under pants too.
There are a bunch of people that have been incentivized to perform acts of violence. They see other people doing criminal things, and they start thinking "I could do that." And then they actually do it.
It’s human nature to wonder about things. To see a dollar on the ground and think "With that dollar and the change in my pocket, I can afford to ride the bus home" and then make the decision of whether to pick up the dollar and keep it or not. If something is there, seemingly free for the taking, a lot of people will take it. That is what our society has become.
So I would prefer that movies and TV shows show people doing normal human things like turning in a found bag at the Lost and Found. Someone doing gardening in their neighbor’s yard while talking to their friend who is standing on the sidewalk. Everyone polite about following laws and displaying behavior that a lot of kids are not seeing in their everyday lives, but they should have some experience with.
I grew up with unreal representations of everyday life. Like, the "golden summer" wishful high school/college experience of someone that went to like one party and had "a life defining experience" that was basically them playing beer pong with a bunch of people they’ve drunkenly made up life stories for in the moment. And that dude made like 20 generation-shaping movies, and other directors followed suit.
And we ended up with a movie where a group of preteen boys hired a sexworker.
And that was a movie marketed toward children. Same with "Blank Check," which is set in an alternate universe where all the laws are different. But in this universe, parents were probably finding their checkbooks missing, because that banker didn’t even blink about giving a million dollars to a CHILD.
How did he even interact with the bank? Did he show his student ID? Would a student ID work–in the 1990s when they were just a piece of plastic with your picture printed on it?
And that’s one thing I definitely believe the government should provide to every citizen free of charge: An ID or drivers license should be free. Maybe there should be a charge for a replacement, but renewals should be free.
Everything is so expensive. And everybody is poor and getting poorer, while the uber-rich gaze down upon us from their castles. Completely unaware "of the cost of things" to the point of simply not being able to understand how someone can’t afford to pay $26 for a pair of underwear. Or if they do pay that much, that they then won’t have enough money to pay for this or that luxury good because they are struggling to afford groceries and the ever rising rent prices as big equity buys up the world and devastates civilizations.
How great would you look if you provided everyone in a community with necessary items they would definitely appreciate? And maybe there would be a coupon code, so the items could be provided by the store of peoples’ choice? That way the items could be shipped to the stores rather than making a larger carbon footprint by shipping directly to every person.
Shoes would be a good choice. Sealed packages of multiple pairs of underwear and tee shirts. Cat food and dog food in popular brands.
There are ways to please the public that don’t involve making a clown of yourself.
I wish people wouldn’t lie about being professionals
You know you’re not a doctor. Stop giving medical advice.
It’s so horrifying that people have decided to seek their answers about life from strangers on the Internet. People that have maybe read a few actual books, but have likely watched a video or two and now see themself as an expert.
I don’t know when people started taking parenting advice from influencers, but it has got to stop. Like, if they’re talking about commonsense normal stuff, that’s one thing. But if they’re telling you to stick foreign objects into your body… They need to have a medical degree. Be for real. That person looks like they’ve got injection marks between their toes. That’s a grifter. Stop being grifted.
And yeah. I’m angry at people letting themselves be sucked into Hate Holes. And I really wish there were laws in place to stop the grifters, just like I wish they would stop telemarketers. I would like to see some terrible people be deplatformed. At the least, they should be demonetized and no longer offered up to the public.
It’s not censorship because the content is still there. But it is not content that should be recommended to people.
People did not seek out antivaxxer content. That stuff crept its way into our lives via then-reputable "news" channels. I still remember the sense of shock as a C-class actress talked about her belief that her child’s autism was caused by vaccinations. She was so sure.
It made me sad.
She was a real confused human being desperately seeking answers for her child’s condition. And she was sucked down rabbit hole. And unfortunately, she opened the door and a bunch of people were sucked into a bunch of lies about autism. And it has resulted in millions of children being adversely effected.
Imagine: People are so afraid their children won’t be perfect that they are willing to put them through hell just in case.
It makes a person think.
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