The great impending OMG of 2011, By Mark Morford

[madokie]

It was, to my slippery and wayward mind, one of the wonkiest, wobbliest, most sputteringly interesting years in ages, full of sound and fury and shrill, insufferable conservatism signifying nothing, but in a way that makes it seem like, you know, everything.

Do you remember much of 2010? Is it already a big blur, a fading Polaroid, a smeary dreamscape of pain and wonder and random celebrity deaths? Do you remember, say, Mel Gibson's sociopathic rants, Gary Coleman's sad demise, Christine O' Donnell's ditzball witchcraft? Do you care much anymore? Of course you don't. Then again, in a way, you totally do. Because you remember. It's all in there, somewhere. Ain't it strange?

This is the astonishing thing: All end-of-year lookbacks at the major stories, scandals, dramas and traumas contain one shared ingredient, one bizarre commonality built straight into their media DNA: How insanely fast we forget all about them. No sooner are we all aflutter, enraged and atwitter over one issue or conflict, then we shrug it off and leap onto the next Incredibly Important Thing, barely remembering what all the fuss was about in the first place.

It is your great reminder, repeated here for the 1,000th time: All those events and spectacles we think are so imperative at the time, so mandatory to our very survival, vanish in almost an instant. The 24-hour news cycle coupled with our short attention spans and hooked into the fact that life is a ridiculous mystical circus dreamgasm of joyful futility means, well, we don't understand nearly as much as we think we do. Also, the Great Play is still unfolding exactly as it should. ...

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[RandomThoughts]

1. Wrong.

I disagree with "Great Play is still unfolding exactly as it should"

Since we each choose our part in the play, to say a play is destine is not understanding what is possible.

To say things are going as they are is to accept anything that happens, to break you and make you weak.

It is one of the worst things to ever say.

To explain it better, 'the great play' is not yet written, and there are different paths. And any one can be the future you choose. If you think you have a choice, some things are to get you to think you do not have a choice.


There is always a door that is a way out of bad choices and that can always be found.
Leon The Professional
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2_s5X3kAec


The Croatian thing with the cane does not get what you do not give him.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Corporate Mass Media 'News': Tales told by idiots

Macbeth - Act 5, Scene 5

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

[RandomThoughts]

3. I am not on any stage.

Although I am due beer and travel money.

I thought the story was a pretty good one, with some help. It talks about what is important, concepts of errors from secrecy. It talks about compassion for strangers even if you have a bit of a hard heart. It talks about standing for better ideas and helping people. And also talks about ideas of fairness and rules.

I would rather be telling stories in the bars and poolhalls, and having beers, noted that was in that clip also, but that is just to see what is important.

Also gun is not about violence, and they are just songs and movie clips, sorta a way for me to think on concepts, since not around people until the beer and travel correction that is due to me is corrected, I find other ways to have conversations.


If anything it is about calling a bluff, but you have to remove the violence filter or threat filter. People don't have to see it the way I do, although I like the stories.