The War On Terror Is Stupid, And So Is A Lot Of Stuff In My Life
The War On Terror is stupid and I've grown fatigued by it. I wish it to stop. It bores me and it's a distraction from what's really important: me. It is interferring with me going about my day, as if I needed any more distractions.
Cigarettes killed upwards of 300,000 people in a year. Cars kill a bunch of people. Pedestrian accidents, ninjas, cancer from industrial and corporate pollution, stress from bad marriages, AIDS crack Bernie Goetz, all this stuff kill a lot of people. If there is a correlation between American loss of life and chit chat around the water cooler, I would say terrorism is still a distant 7th place. And to me Great White Sharks cause a lot of terror. You could say I'm terror-fied of sharks. Where's Jim Lehrer on this one?
I'm a big fan of people thinking before they talk. Not in a way that makes them hold their tongue, just in a way that makes them sound smarter when they talk. Such as, when one news broadcast starts calling people who defend their city "Insurgents," the other news agencies should automatically NOT use that word. The word starts losing it's definition otherwise. Find other names for them. Think first. Find your own word. Repetition clouds up the conversation at a time when speech is supposed to clarify.
We talk about Weapons of Mass Destruction a lot. But what about "Weapons That Kill One At A Time"? Ain't they a problem too? Whether I get killed solo or in the company of 70,000 of my closest neighbors, I feel it to be problematic no matter what. I feel like the repetition in the news and amongst my peers is making me more numb. Or as Franky Pelvis has said "the more I learn the dumber I get." Verbal abbreviations usually are an indication of mental abbreviations. If you verbalize things like "best war ever" or America needs a regime change" or "the troops are a hero" then it means your thought process has simultaneously gotten more efficient.
I would hate to die at the hands of a dummy or someone who insists on using cliche or worn out phraseology. If my murderer ever insists that he "brought his A game" or that he "did what he had to do" I would be doubly unhappy.
Cigarettes killed upwards of 300,000 people in a year. Cars kill a bunch of people. Pedestrian accidents, ninjas, cancer from industrial and corporate pollution, stress from bad marriages, AIDS crack Bernie Goetz, all this stuff kill a lot of people. If there is a correlation between American loss of life and chit chat around the water cooler, I would say terrorism is still a distant 7th place. And to me Great White Sharks cause a lot of terror. You could say I'm terror-fied of sharks. Where's Jim Lehrer on this one?
I'm a big fan of people thinking before they talk. Not in a way that makes them hold their tongue, just in a way that makes them sound smarter when they talk. Such as, when one news broadcast starts calling people who defend their city "Insurgents," the other news agencies should automatically NOT use that word. The word starts losing it's definition otherwise. Find other names for them. Think first. Find your own word. Repetition clouds up the conversation at a time when speech is supposed to clarify.
We talk about Weapons of Mass Destruction a lot. But what about "Weapons That Kill One At A Time"? Ain't they a problem too? Whether I get killed solo or in the company of 70,000 of my closest neighbors, I feel it to be problematic no matter what. I feel like the repetition in the news and amongst my peers is making me more numb. Or as Franky Pelvis has said "the more I learn the dumber I get." Verbal abbreviations usually are an indication of mental abbreviations. If you verbalize things like "best war ever" or America needs a regime change" or "the troops are a hero" then it means your thought process has simultaneously gotten more efficient.
I would hate to die at the hands of a dummy or someone who insists on using cliche or worn out phraseology. If my murderer ever insists that he "brought his A game" or that he "did what he had to do" I would be doubly unhappy.
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And to me Great White Sharks cause a lot of terror.I know there's a joke in there somewhere. Something about how the band Great White, actually turned out to be far deadlier than the Shark that inspired them.
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