Now, before I go on, I should point out that I've been inhabiting one of the most preposterously material and backwards (outside of ALL of the southern US) cities in the Country for the past 2 years.
My commute to work each day averages out to around an hour. To go 12 miles.
My commute home each day is about an hour and 15 minutes. To go 12 miles.
If I had to describe LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA in one word, I would say that word would be "Inconsiderate". Now I don't entirely blame the scum sucking desperate perma-teenagers that for the most part inhabit this town, but the city itself as well. In all honestly I have a feeling that the general "LA Attitude" stems from the city. Everything about it seems to be designed in spite of logic and rationality. In other words, a sort of middle finger to its inhabitants that says "Figure it out, pussy." It is several broken systems built upon other broken systems built upon one broken system. I would say the root of this broken system is laziness. The sort of laziness where you still appear to be doing a good job and getting raises at your job even though you are a hack and everything you do is only going to make the people that come after you work harder to fix your bullshit. And the part that can't be categorized as laziness, appears to be non-apologetic roid-rage. I have no scientific evidence to back this up unfortunately.
So beyond the general duct-taped, jerry-rigged system that is Los Angeles, there are the people. These pieces of bum-feces took the city's ball and ran with it. Never before have I seen such "original" driving techniques. There has been many times where I have honestly wondered if somehow I was actually dead already and the other people on the road just couldn't see that my car was there. You know, like Bruce Willis in the Sixth Sense, except more enjoyable probably. What I mean is, most everyone in this town is perfectly fine with mediocrity as a life-style. You go to your job, you don't think to hard, you drive home, you get wasted, you go back to work, etc etc. All this would be fine and good if we were in a place that didn't have such an influence on the rest of the country, let alone the world. Many of these people I am describing work for different aspects of what is collectively called "The Media".
What's your point Ian?
Here is my point:
At my work all day (where we make HD quality Bikini videos with TONS of fake tits), they play the election coverage on the giant HD tv. Many times, every day, I have to be around this television. It makes me physically ill. Seriously. There is no substance to any of it. Its all the same bullshit tabloids look for, but wrapped up in a "News" package. I have yet to see any issue intelligently discussed or anything really that has not made me feel like I'm dying inside. And you want to know what? I have come to a realization about all this. I dont think America deserves better then where we are at. I think Americans are a bunch of boring, mouth breathing, self-centered assholes. Even the smart ones. It seems like most people are more worried about pushing their ideas or agendas on others instead of actually listening to each other. Americans have devolved so far that they don't even know what is important to them anymore, unless its put in some context to where you can relate it to SOMETHING YOU HAVE SEEN OR HEARD BEFORE. Unless you live in the south and you never evolved in the first place. Americans don't deserve better because they don't even know what they need to make their lives better. They don't deserve it, because they don't even bother to try to find out what could make their lives better. They don't deserve it out of the pure laziness to only care about their base urges, such as sex, fear, and being self-centered.
This is not a political rant. It's a scream in the darkness of our humanity. WHAT THE FUCK HAS HAPPENED TO PEOPLE.
Anyway, I have made the decision that pending the outcome of the election (I dont care to discuss the specifics of that because politics are as gay as AIDZ NEEDLEZ), I will be moving out of the country, hopefully never to look into its obese, make-up caked, acne scarred face ever again. This move could be a year away or in a few months, who knows.
Honestly, FUCK THIS PLACE.
Love,
Sleddggg
Ps. Ive been drinking Tecate all day.
i think a great deal of the world's problems are related to the disproportionate number of murders in democratic areas. i'm sure you'll agree.
also, you're not alone in your feelings about politics... hang in there.
I live in Porterville, CA, 200 miles away from you physically, 1 million miles away from you in every other sense. We grow mediocre oranges here on mediocre farms. The local good olâ boys are too mediocre to hide the graft and corruption that well. We have mediocre rich people. They would be just well off in LA or SF but they live here because being a big fish in a small pond is preferable to being a withered testicle in the ballsack of some important city. Plus, they get an extra couple of t,housand feet of real estate to wallow in round our neck of the woods and seven irons. I go buy a burrito from Taco Belle and it falls apart in my hands because we have mediocre poor people here as well and no one knows how to fold a fucking burrito or doesnât care because they are on minimum wage and itâs not like the thing is edible anyway⦠I am mediocre or I wouldnât be here. There is a glimmer inside of me that still remembers cool things like skill and pride and love and excellence and I miss it. I miss it in me, I miss it in the world around me.
Mediocrity rules. The mediocre are everywhere, whoever wins an election the complacency party always get in. Why do the media dicks in your town get away with it? Because all the mediocre twats in complacencyville, USA or England or Germany or wherever lap it all up, thatâs why. If they didnât, the dream factory wouldnât be pumping out such dry wet dreams for us all. Thing is Ian, you are cursed. I have never met you, only conversed via the medium of MTC, but I know stuff about you. YOU are not mediocre, never have been never will be. This stuff only gets to you because it hasnât gotten to you yet. Me, I am like the guy in the alien invasion movie who acts like he always did but who you discover in the final shots has been converted just like everybody else. Yeah, get out of LA, there must only be so much you can stand, travel see stuff, stop and smell the roses because amongst the dross one or two of them will smell fucking great. Be creative, be alive and spare a thought for the poor fuckers who have settled for shit and are stuck with it.
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