The Age of Bullshit
It’s hard to find truth in this
world, my world, this shithole of conformity that squeezes every molecule of
truth out of everything. This colossal
pile of shit is most evident in government, where devious lawyers convene to
double talk their way into riches.
Information, which is supposedly the domain of the news, is sandwiched
between one useless product after another, or more pernicious, the constant
stream of bullshit we are bombarded by prevaricators, whores if you will of
those unscrupulous bastards who will shit on the environment and call it
fertilizer. While there are too many
mention, the drug pushers, not the honest dealers who trade in illegal
substances but the bastards who with chemists find compounds to address the many
and varied afflictions befalling humans, are perhaps the worst for they offer salvation
with a cautionary provision, like curing an itch and a rash with a drug that
may cause one to lapse into a coma. Yet,
in the grand scheme of things they at least pass the litmus test of possessing
some redeeming value. But the oil
companies are perhaps the greatest collection of lying bullshitting bastards
that the world has ever experienced. One might add all energy companies both
public and private, coal as well gas.
Energy people are like mold spores, if left untreated they sprout
everywhere and grow and grow. Take the
latest rendition of bullshit coming from BP.
They have the audacity to get on television with their whores telling
us, the general public, how great the gulf coast is doing. The message in the message is simply, “Shit,
we dumped gazillion gallons of crude in the coast but everything is ok. Everything is just fine.” Bullshit!
How about the pipe line
assholes? They got a major spill, but
they want to tell us that future pipelines will be safe. Huh?
Or the coal guys claiming there is clean burning carbon? It is fucking fantasy world of misbegotten
thieves telling us bullshit. Of course,
our corporate news, in an effort to be balanced (right?), present opposing
views as if they are fucking ostriches, head in the sand, or perhaps more
accurately described as head up their asses, letting lying bastards share the
same forum as meaningful watchdogs.
Worse, they sell air time to bastards who can hire attractive
authoritative women to tell us how much they are doing for us. It is a game that is designed for the limited
mind, and unfortunately too many of us fall into this category. Picture the gun totting idiot who believes he
needs an arsenal to protect his home when in fact he is so disagreeable even
his family doesn’t want to visit. Of
course, let’s not forget the NRA and its minions of cave men declaring the sanctity
of the 2nd amendment while blood flows from the halls of an
elementary school and its chief asshole declares the way to solve this problem
is to arm the senile and send them off to school, cataracts notwithstanding, to
shoot and any interloper even the principal heading to the men’s room with an
overactive prostrate. And the news
stations cover this jerk as if it is a legitimate story rather than sending
someone to go to the press conference and nail his ass or at least break out in
hysterical laughter at his absurd statements.
Of course, bullshitters, when pushed, just walk away or continue
mouthing talking points like some toy doll with a string. It is unbelievable how must crap is packaged
and force fed either through commercials or through supposedly legitimate news
outlets.
The
talking heads are the worse sitting there in their Saville row suits reading
the teleprompter, diction and inflection perfect, all prim and proper with not
a scintilla of forthrightness, pretty people so confident so pristine in their
absolute absurd role as purveyor of bullshit.
Then we need to shift our attention to the morning shows that have
someone how discovered that if they babble like idiots, not to denigrate people
of limited intelligence for they possess for more sincerity and integrity than
these high paid clowns, and chuckle like
they are deranged to seem on common ground with the audience who will hopefully
tune in and the station can reap its rewards.
On and on they go, I even heard one to declare that someone had an angel
looking out for them. Here we are in the
21st century and some tv personality is promoting out right
silliness. People can believe angels,
many do, but shouldn’t the news be fact based and made to simply convey what is
real or as real as we can determine. But
alas the human species has long ago relied on mysticism to explain phenomenon
that our limited capacity could not grasp.
Angels, fairies, and the host of other products of human imaginations linger
in consciousness for reality still needs to be reduced to our limited capacity.
Move
on, to the opinion shows with their collection laughing hyenas, again not to denigrate
a species that has made a remarkable work of survival, pontificating on any
subject with thesis as vapid as their insincerity. How they dissect positions with such acuity
as to make one wonder how in the hell can anyone continue to exhaust a subject
that really can be reduced to a single word, bullshit. But this is the self-promoting, self-perpetuating
wing of the news division. The sole
design of this unique and fatuous production is to reinforce polarity and confirm
in the minds of those troglodytes (not to disparage those early cave dwellers
who were quite remarkable in the evolutionary chain) who stand about bleating
and explaining stuff that most of us have long ago eliminated from our thinking
lives. My personal favorites are the street
preacher grasping with diction and sophistication to explain things in a
fashion that a preschool child would find simplistic and the strident lesbian
who feels compels to emote disdain as if she is the modern day Sphinx though I
could solve her riddle, Shut the fuck up!
My missive will go unheeded though these pontificators will go on and on
till someone shuts them off.
In
an aside, I should cast a disgusting glance at the current crop of Neanderthals
(not to demean another in the human evolutionary cycle that made great strides
in survival) who parade as conservatives when they are little more than know
nothing bigots who disguise their prejudice behind their bogus claims of
morality and patriotism. The ones who
are really grating possess a British accent and claim absolute superiority in
all areas of public policy except in matters where their devious and criminal
mogul tells them to shut up. Then like a
scared kitten who hears a loud boom, they hide.
This
is the state of information in the age of bullshit. Nothing is real; everything is the product of
devious executives who sell more and more of shit we just don’t need and in
some cases is detrimental to our well-being, even our survival. These greedy bastards have slinked their way
into the high offices of decision making where like “Jabba the Hutt” they
preside over our information network regurgitating their own evil and nasty
perspective (though they don’t even possess a scintilla of whatever it means to
be real and true) and because they are so hideous as human beings they secure
the services of ready-made personalities who like whores (not to demean those
in that age old honorable profession who for whatever reason find themselves
servicing the base needs of the human male and by the way that is another topic:
the exploitation of women) don make-up and fancy apparel and read and follow
orders and fill the quiet hours of desperation with senseless babble designed
to get us, the viewers, to the next commercial message. This world where the pursuit of truth has
been abandoned in hysteria and hype, this world where sensationalism has
replaced true reporting, this world where the tried and true is little more
than the proven rating winner, this world where the masses are perceived and
treated as mindless consumers, this world where the pollsters have dissected
the human consciousness and feed the results to this grotesque collection of
fools who confirmed Menken’s observation of many years ago, “No one in this
world . . . has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the
great masses of the plain people. Nor
has anyone every lost public office thereby.”
