Power and Selling Out

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I don' know if I brought this up or not, but my first topic here is that I got home Thursday night from a very tiring work shift to discover that a former classmate had re-added me on Facebook( apparently, she'd removed me, then re-added me), and had sent me a message.

BTW, when I tell you the message, you'll get why she re-added me:

she's been looking all over the place for Zhu Zhu Pets for her kids, and can't find them anywhere, so she decided to go to the one guy she always knew was utterly obsessed with toys to help her out.

where it gets funny is that I told my room-mate and g/f in the past that I believed a lot of my former classmates would start coming to me soon, in need of my services, as they're now getting married and having kids. I guess I was right.

I also told my partner that I wasn't going to give her a discount: we give discounts to close friends and family, and occasionally some co-workers, and that's it. And...considering this b*tch removed me from her friends and re-added me cause she needed something, what she'll get if she buys stuff from me is the great customer satisfaction we give to everyone, nothing more!


For my second topic, I wanted to mention something I recently read, and the problem I have with it. Cracked.com as of late has been doing not just parody-based stuff, but also a lot of stuff in formats similar to Maxim and FHM, but they throw in some humorous stuff into the articles, even though the articles are pretty factual overall.

Well, this is their recent piece: Cracked.com's "7 Things 'Good Parents' Do (That Screws Kids Up for Life)"

Most of them I think are flat-out wrong for many moral reasons alone...but there's one that really hit me...#6

the reason they suggest "teaching your kid to be yourself" isn't good is because then the kid won't be able to properly socialize and function in society. Upon that happening, he'll/she'll supposedly be dumber than the other kids, and a whole other host of things.

What's my problem with that, you may ask?

So basically...he/she won't be a mindless drone, and they think there's a problem with that. Just because he/she doesn't "function" like everyone else doesn't mean there's a problem.

Has anyone honestly seen how screwed up "normality" can honestly be?

My whole life, I was told that if I wanted friends, I had to basically sell out who I was and be something I wasn't, or they wouldn't like me.

What I should've been told was "the right people will appreciate you for who you are"

Instead, #6 just says "parents don't teach their kids to be second-handers, and co-dependent on society's approval, and then the kids wind up different from everyone else"

That's not really a bad thing...and about not being on the same intelligence level as everyone else..um...I don't want to be; that'd be an insult to mine!

Did Leonardo DaVinci think like everyone else? Did Ayn Rand? Did Bill Gates?

No, they didn't...but in these respects they'd be considered dumber cause they didn't focus the same attention to socialization that the rest of the 9-5ers did.

I even remember, back years ago, being told that the only way I could get a girl was to treat 'er like sh*t...and if I didn't, no girl would come my way.

I refused to do it...I just couldn't bring myself to do something so horrible. Today, I have a girlfriend I love more than anything; I treat her like gold, her family is blown away by it...and she couldn't possibly be happier.

"Be yourself" and "Be true to yourself" mean "Pretend to be like everyone else wherever you go, but have your own hidden agenda to push every time you have an opportunity".

"Girls like mean guys" means "give girls the impression that you're worth the effort" and not "treat women nastily".

I wish you would've given my former boss that second memo: he believed in the 4 Fs: find her, f*nger her, f*ck 'er, and forget 'er

At least, he told me he did.


The first one seems incredibly deceitfully, and morally despicable. Does sound like humanity, though...

I think that's a really good article, thanks for the link! Not so much for the parenting aspect, but for pointing out the foolish path being followed by mainstream education.

In the UK, schools use the amount of computers in class to boast how good that school is, they are pushing for children to start younger and younger and sports are compulsory for no reason I've ever been able to discern. In other words, they are doing exactly what research (and common sense) says you shouldn't do if you want to create reasonably sane, healthy adults. Maybe the aim is really to turn as many of us as possible into messed up compliant consumers of junk terrified to challenge the self-appointed experts (and the few who benefit hugely from this sysytem...) ?

Anyway, I've always suspected these 'ideals' to be a load of rubbish, despite the raised eyebrows of others when I've challenged these sacred cows. So it's good to see some research challenging it too.

I have to admit, it is insanely difficult being a parent these days. Naming my son Turdish Fizzwhizzle seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I'm having doubts...

Why wouldn't the powers that be want mindless drones to be the standard? I mean, what's bad about that from their point of view, right?

Alot of people would say "Oh they'd never be like that" but it's the logical move, surely?

Mindless drones are a lot easier to govern. Intelligent, confident people tend to do stupid things like standing up for their rights .

not only do they want them to be mindless drones, they depend on it!

And judging by the popularity of Star Wars, it's working!

Thanks a lot