Reply #9: I just don't have the time

[Mythsaje]

Oh, screw all the cynicism and lack of hope. Screw the whole "no one can fix this" shit I hear spouted day after day. Screw the whole "the human race is doomed and deserves to be" crap. Screw the "you're looking for a messiah" crowd who just don't get it. Screw the "your candidate is just telling you want you want to hear" people too. It's not just something I WANT to hear, but something America NEEDS to hear. Because it's the truth.

Screw the people who say "Oh, politicians are all the same."

My nearly automatic response is "Well, so are assholes like you."

I'm SO tired of the doom and gloom crap from everyone who has nothing good to say about anything or anything. I mean the lefties who truly DO hate America and everything it might stand for. America has done some pretty bad things, but, you know, so has just about every other nation on Earth, particular when they held more power than their neighbors. Humans have a tendency to do some pretty fucked up things. People who are attracted to power are almost invariably assholes. Every once in a while we luck out and someone gains power who wants it not for themselves, but to help others. To do the right thing because someone needed to be there to do it.

We've had a few Presidents in our not-so-long history who've done that, after all. People like Teddy Roosevelt, who despised corruption, and hated cheats, and wanted to see people get a fair shake. People like FDR, who saw America in dire straits, and gave of himself to see America stand strong.

I am SO sick of the endless stream of negativity that pours out of some people like exorcist-induced vomit. Nothing is good enough, everything is bad, and we all deserve to die a horrible death, or sit in our own shit and piss for as long as it takes for us to die. People who think America CAN'T be something worthwhile, something decent, and stand for something other than imperial force. People who think humanity is fatally flawed and we'll never rise above our animal natures. We can, and have, and will again.

I don't have time for the fire and brimstone assholes who think most of us are going to some kind of hell. I don't have time for people who are standing on the sidelines cheering what they see as the imminent destruction of the human race. I don't have the time for those who think there's no point in hoping for something better, or fighting for what good there is in the world. I don't have time to deal with cynics, skeptics, and self-absorbed nay-sayers.

If people actually think it's futile, what the hell are they doing here? If they hate people and humanity so much, what are they working toward? Nothing worth having.

I have no time for complete luddites, or folks who think we'd be better off without many of the things we've learned in the past couple hundred years. People who truly have very little understanding or appreciation of how fucking miserable life was for all but the most affluent back then. People who don't appreciate what they have now and still claim to feel for those who have less.

If there's ANY point to all of this, this life, this existence, it's to do the best you can to make everyone's life a little better by whatever means you can. That doesn't mean dragging them down, or propping yourself up at their expense. That doesn't mean looking down one's nose at someone's perceived inferiority. It's not about being the "cock-of-the-walk" and beating one's breast.

And it's sure as hell not about deliberately stamping out hope wherever one finds it. It's sure as hell not about casting aspersions on the dreams of other people. If that's how one gets one's kicks, one is a really fucked up individual who needs to stay as far away from other people as possible. Or become a fundamentalist preacher so people will PAY for the privilege of being treated like worthless pieces of shit.

Frustrated? A little. Angry? You bet. Some people have nothing to offer but negativity. And I don't understand that at all. It seems a pointless, worthless existence.

Tolerate it? Accept it? Argue with it?


I don't have the time.