S A T U R D A Y, J A N U A R Y 1, 2 0 1 1
I'm sure every blog out there is busy posting thoughtful and pensive examinations of the events of this passing year and first decade of the 21st Century.
Allow me to offer this not-so event specific synopsis...
We were stupid, irresponsible, self-centered assholes who shit where we ate, lied, cheated, stole, abused, and killed thousands because there was a profit in it. We spent 70% of our waking hours chasing completely meaningless goals, never giving a damn about possible repercussion of our actions, as long as they advanced our self-perceived worth. The balance of our time was spent on mindless entertainment, filling every spare moment with trivial distractions which have opened chasm sized disconnects between ourselves and the real world.
Future generations be damned, our every forward movement was for the benefit of 'now', and mother nature became decidedly less subtle in her objections to our claims of souvereignty.
You know what's really noteworthy? If I wrote this at the end of any decade of my brief experience, my observations would vary little.
The players and sets may change, but the directors and motivations are constants. There is nothing to contemplate, nothing to review - except in the name of entertainment, because we absolutely refuse to learn from our past. Regardless of what I write here, or anyone writes anywhere, odds are the world is not going to undergo a spiritual epiphany in the morning.
2011 will be pretty much the same as 2010, just as 2010 was much like 1956 in the great scheme of things.
Mind you, at the end of 1956, I was in much, much better shape than I am today, and didn't much care who really ran the world, or ponder the reasons for adding fluoride to the water supply. I was pretty new back then - having been born a short 7 months before. Today, I could probably recount those early years in vivid detail, but please don't ask me what happened 2 days ago. The world may be replete with constants, but alas, I am moving in a very definite direction - a fact I am reminded of with every ache, every pain, every blur (in vision and memory), every lost khz of hearing, every restricted food, every prescription, every tab of Polident, every afternoon nap...
Mind you, at the end of 1956, I was in much, much better shape than I am today, and didn't much care who really ran the world, or ponder the reasons for adding fluoride to the water supply. I was pretty new back then - having been born a short 7 months before. Today, I could probably recount those early years in vivid detail, but please don't ask me what happened 2 days ago. The world may be replete with constants, but alas, I am moving in a very definite direction - a fact I am reminded of with every ache, every pain, every blur (in vision and memory), every lost khz of hearing, every restricted food, every prescription, every tab of Polident, every afternoon nap...
I have come to absolutely love naps.
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It would seem that 2011 is the year in which Christians are going to hold their long awaited Judgment Day, (May 21st to be exact) with the end of days falling somewhere in October. Well good for them, I hope they get good weather. Victoria Day is being held on Monday, May 23rd this year, so it should be a wild long week-end in Ottawa! Hell, maybe Queen Victoria could attend this year! She hasn't had a good birthday bash in 110 years! If you know any dillusional bible thumpers, maybe you could ask them if they might try to convince Jesus to bring her with him.
Harold, also predicted the world would end in 1994...
...The jury is still out on whether or not he was right.
I see no down side to an event that will see every Christian whisked off the planet - aside from the unfortunate fact that Jews and Muslims aren't included. Yes, I know they aren't the only religions on the planet, but they ARE the shit disturbers - the Trinity of Terror! No other theologies are so blatantly out of sync with basic morality. They are the thugs and murderers of the world, each heinous act justified by assertions of 'god's will'. Trust me, if god is "rapturing" the Christians in May, there is no way that Heaven is the destination...
Now won't that just rot old Harold's socks!
I'm now 12 minutes late posting this, and the hoots and hollers in the street have fallen silent (suggesting that the revelers realized that the stroke of midnight was the only thing truly worth celebrating).
And so, along with a promise (yet again) to post long promised articles in the next few days, I end this missive with my sincere hope that everyone out there beats the odds, wakes up in the morning and shouts...
Now won't that just rot old Harold's socks!
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I'm now 12 minutes late posting this, and the hoots and hollers in the street have fallen silent (suggesting that the revelers realized that the stroke of midnight was the only thing truly worth celebrating).
And so, along with a promise (yet again) to post long promised articles in the next few days, I end this missive with my sincere hope that everyone out there beats the odds, wakes up in the morning and shouts...
"Eureka! THAT'S what it's all about! (oops. uh-oh.)"
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