1.And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

2. You've got to stop fighting change, you're just kicking against the pricks.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Response to Recent Comments

@Renee: I know what you're saying, and let me start by stating that the more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.  BUT, when I say I'm smarter than someone because I know something that they don't, I'm not talking about something like "who was the prime minister of Latvia in 1874? or something; I mean common knowledge stuff, like how to spell simple words, who were the major 3 or 4 countries fighting in World War 2, the fact that the left lane on the highway is for those who wish to drive at at least the speed limit, when it is appropriate to use an apostrophe, etc . . . Its stuff you just learn if you pay a little attention and aren't self absorbed.  So I will say that I'm probably a moron, but I at least know that easy shit - so that makes me smarter that all these people who don't.  See, you underestimate me.  I know what the difference in intelligence and knowledge is.  I'm just smart enough to take it one step further.  Which brings me to your next question about culture:  This one is easy, I'm using a very simple basis to judge and it has nothing to do with subjective factors like you mentioned above.  I can look at a culture and if they do things (not DID things, so don't bring up history, I mean DO things) like hold a little girl down and cut off her clitoris and sometimes her outer labia with a filthy knife - I'm gonna go ahead and judge them as fucked up.  If you doubt how widespread this practice is, especially in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, ask anyone who has been there and spent a little time with the people.  One more example (I have hundreds) from the same regions: if in your culture rape is not only common, but when it happens its always the woman's fault and she gets killed for it - I feel comfortable, like Lazy-Boy recliner with my feet up comfortable, judging the fuck out of that culture.
Finally, please don't say "just so you know..."  Odds are, I KNOW.  I'm not much smarter than anybody else, for some reason I'm just cursed with the burden of PAYING ATTENTION.

HALLMARK: THE WHITE DEVIL or Are They Joking, Deranged, or Stupid?


I couldn't believe this was serious when I first heard about it a few months ago.  Let me summarize what's going on here:  Hallmark makes a talking card to be given to graduating high school students who are college bound.  They give it an astronomy theme. As you can hear, the characters are talking about the universe and astronomical things like stars, planets, BLACK HOLES, etc . . . The characters on the card are basically saying "look out universe, here I come!" 
Enter the Los Angeles, (of course, who else?) CA chapter of the NAACP.  Who knows how they decided on it, but they called a press conference to state how harmful this card is to the fine African American citizens of LA.  The NAACP decides that instead of Black Holes (which keeps with the astronomical theme of the card), the card actually says "BLACK HOES".   First of all, go back and listen to the card again.  It clearly says "black holes".  And they aren't implying that Hallmark slipped  the racist comment in to the card - they're saying it like that's just what the card says.  But why THE FUCK would it make sense for a graduation card to go from saying cosmic things about space and planets to just blatant racism, calling out black hoes and putting them on notice?  It doesn't make sense!  Furthermore, why would Hallmark do that?  Are they in the business of making cards and making money?  Or are they in the business of offending a large chunk of their customers with racist comments?  THINK! This is like the Emperor's New Clothes.  Surely everyone is thinking "this is obviously bullshit."  Right?
The very fact that this was an issue is the result of the overwhelming attitude in this country of validating anything anyone says about feeling offended.  Its also evidence of how out of hand the NAACP has gotten over the years.  Americans tiptoe around in fear of offending any minority, cultural, ethnic, gender, or otherwise.  Listen to me and remember:  EVERYBODY DOESN'T HAVE A VALID OPINION!  We need to have the guts to tell people to just SHUT THE FUCK UP. 
But no one does it, because if you tell that asshole at the beginning of the video "Look dude, are you kidding?  Don't you know what 'context' means?  It's talking about space.  No, you can't have a press conference.  Shut your fucking mouth and go back to work."    - you would be called a racist.  No I'm not.  If you're so obsessed with race that you think "The Man" is now making graduation cards with overt racial slurs, and you blame "The White Man" for everything (including your fantasy racist card) I would argue that YOU'RE THE RACIST. 
The NAACP is spending time and money trying to improve life for African Americans by protesting Hallmark cards?  Really?  With all the problems facing LA's African American community - gangs, violence, addiction, apathy, education, guys who impregnate "black hoes" and don't stick around to be a father . . .you'd think they would be too busy working those REAL issues to even notice some cartoon characters in a friggin' greeting card.  I mean to say that a card for graduates that has an astronomy THEME was suddenly switching topics from space to racism, you'd have to either be joking, deranged, or too stupid to know better; right?

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Introduction

Kicking against the pricks is a means for me to vent and for you to learn.  Although the title is a biblical reference, I assure you I am not affiliated with any organized religion.  In fact, if you stick with me you'll find that part of my purpose here is to point out how so much of the grief and horror throughout our history has been perpetrated by organized religions.  If you are devout about, well, anything - prepare to be offended. 
I will spend a lot of time berating and mocking the politically correct, the Left, and the over-sensitive.  Please do not assume that because of this, I am associated with the Right.  That is exactly the kind of moronic thinking that I am fighting against.  You can't pigeonhole or classify me.  Odds are, I'm smarter than you are.  I wasn't born that way, and I don't have a bunch of formal education.  I am an autodidact.  Meaning I'm smart because I've been around the block a few times and I've PAID ATTENTION the whole way.  If you just had to look up autodidact - see, I told you I'm smarter than you.  And if you don't know what the word means and you're too apathetic to look it up, you're the person I'll be spending a lot of time talking about in future posts. 
I won't be bound by the ridiculous anthropological ideal of cultural relativism.  Some cultures ARE better than others.  I won't be bound by the tyranny of the Left that says every stereotype is a lie and everyone is the same.  If one ethnic group in this country commits more crime than another, I WILL SAY IT.  If one ethnic group generally has more children than they can afford, I WILL POINT THEM OUT.  If women exhibit a certain trait or action more than men, I WILL WRITE ABOUT IT.  I want to point out that
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE!  
And I'm sure it will be mentioned that "you can't judge."  I beg do differ.  YES I CAN.  I do it all the time.  The rest of the half ass intelligent people in this country need to start judging too!  The rest you'll just have to read about.  Just one last thing:
I say "fuck" a LOT!