Dharma Daze #10: 12/2021
Society is mad corny fam lmao. I am confusion. Not confucius cause idkwtfgo.
Society is corny. meaning lame, dumb, not worth the price of participating. A joke. A farce. A dumb game where you win dumb prizes. There are many reasons i consider society to be lame, but i have shit to do, so here are a couple that particularly grind my gears.
nepotism/lack of a meritocracy/ not equal for all
You know what I think when i see people getting things they don’t deserve, while talented people fall by the wayside? “well this is fucking stupid”
People complain about the quality of american institutions, especially political, but what do you expect when the US does a piss poor job of identifying and developing talent? The big breaks go to those who went to the right school. they got into the right school because they were born into the right family. they were born into a family who had multiple generations to build wealth due to public welfare such as the New Deal. Or the reparations that former slave owners got after abolition. Or their company received corporate welfare… or as rich people say to confuse those not allowed to become educated, “subsidies”. These societal advantages of greater access to resources lead to underqualified individuals receiving important jobs… that they then fuck up.
It’s not what you know, its who you know, and even 2 thousand and 21 years after Jesus H. Christ, frequently what you look like. Our country is racist and sexist (these are facts, there’s discrimination based on race and sex that diminishes opportunities for marginalized groups) so if these marginalized groups have a chance to join the prospective hires, they’re less likely to get hired. even when more qualified than their white male counterparts. So these talented and smart individuals have to take orders from Hank’s dumbass because his dad and the company CEO used to play golf together.
To say that I have anything against the white male demographic would be false. To say that I have something against a system where they disproportionately dominate positions of power in government and business would be facts. I will not go into white womanhood often supporting white supremacy to maintain these power dynamics, but know that these systems could not exist without their support.
All that shit is beyond fucking corny. People fall in love with the status quo and instead of pushing forward and innovating, they continue the outdated practices of yesteryear and then complain about these workers who are more qualified and/or work just as hard for less pay.
If there’s a race and they put the 4th place car in the winner’s circle because “our family’s know each other” or whatever other bullshit they come up with, you’d ask “wtf was the race for?” and say that shit was stupid. That is a large part of america. Rugged individualism for the poor, social welfare for the rich. (MLK and many others have said this). The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, everything gets way fucking dumber. If you think black people or women don’t get hired because they’re less qualified, please explain how they are less intelligent simply due to the circumstances of their birth? Cornball.
Capitalism
Capitalism is hella corny. It takes money to make money so if you do not already have money… sell an organ or something you lazy fuck. You gotta secure the bag by any means necessary.
I hesitate to even call america capitalist because capitalism requires everyone to have equal access to resources and where the FUCK have you ever seen that in America? The wealth gap is widening. “Civilized” societies divided themselves through history into the haves and have nots, but for many years, somehow people in charge convinced everyone they were neo from the matrix, so no one wanted to cross God’s chosen one. “yea I’m the king cause God fucks with me more than you. Now lemme get that first daughter for my harem fam.”
But supposedly in our modern american society, we have transcended those petty ideas of divine providence and live in a society where everyone has equal opportunity to get rich except… fuck no.
the wealth gap widens as corporations have more legal rights and protections than actual human beings. Corporations have basically purchased the US government, who then does the dirty work of convincing the people that this capitalist (corporatist) set up actually works.
there’s no escaping outside or to your room. we are firmly mired in the dog shit american economy, where corporations can rape Mother Earth and pay their CEOS millions while the minimum wage stays the same. even though inflation and price gouging by greedy corporations make the dollar stretch much less than it used to. the pursuit of profit at the expense of being a decent human being incentivizes a lack of empathy. It inspires a willingness to cut others down, as long as your business turns a profit, you are a “success”.
What kind of healthy society can run on this economic system? One literally designed to build businesses that take as much from the public as possible, while reinvesting as little as they can get away with. That doesn’t sound very healthy to me. It sounds actually... damaging? Dispiriting? Ass fucking backwards? Corporations only succeed because of the public, yet these tight fisted robber barons are allowed to hoard these resources. Ones received from the public (usually for stupid shit they don’t need but bought anyways, because americans exist only for dick swinging contests. Ones played out through consumption designed to fill the hole in their soul. A hole only present because it was sold to their current employer.)