Continuing in the more curmudgeonly vein of T-13, 1.1 and T-13, 1.2, here is my T-13 list of “13 Things Our Socisty Has Too Much Of.”
In no particular order of ranking:
1. Rap “music”–one example is one too many.
2. Politicians. See comment on #1 above.
3. Mass Media Podpeople. Ditto from #1 and #2 above.
4. Colleges and universities. Too many kids who are better suited to training for a trade are ending up in colleges and universities. Colleges are dumbing down academics to–among other things–maintain their finances and kids are getting cheated all around: those suited to academics are cheated of a quality education (as if 12-13 years of abuse in “public schools” weren’t enough) and those suited to training in trades/skills are cheated of that as well.
5. Academia Nut Fruitcakes. Professors of everything from English to “Education” experimenting on youthful minds and brainwashing them with useless crap.
6. Publicly-funded “art”. What? “Crap on a Crucifix” by Whu Flung Dung wouldn’t get NEA funding and would have to actually compete in the marketplace of ideas if public funding of sewage-posing-as-art were cut? This would somehow be a bad thing?
7. “Reality” TV shows. Even the totally clueless ought to have felt the cluebat whack ’em upside the head on this one when a “reality cartoon show” began to be promo-ed.
8. News, so-called. Really, who needs to be told incessantly that the world is going to hell in a handbasket? Especially since most of the tragedy, crisis and woe is patently manufactured for sheeple fodder? Gimme a break.
9. Cell phones. In churches. In movie theaters. In public toilets. While weaving down the road. C’mon! If cell phone users don’t start exercising lil common sense and common courtesy, they’ll start feeling their phones ringing from where they’ve been shoved… where the sun don’t shine…
10. “Celebrities”–who needs a stupid and subliterate singer, actor or whatever pontificating about [insert damned near anything]? You can easily find more sensible thought in a preschool play yard. Who CARES what someone who’s famous for their looks, sound (I won’t say singing or music there) or ability to parrot the words of someone more literate than themselves thinks? Yeh, right: sheeple.
11. Sheeple. Yeh, the great unwashed. Brainwashed, but of unclean (and unsound) mind. Easily swayed by Academia Nut Fruitcakes, politicians *spit*, Mass Media Podpeople, Celebs, and the guy at the watercooler who’s an even bigger idiot than themselves (if that were possible). Yeh, this society has far, far too many sheeple.
12. Pubschool administrators (and their evil mentors, education professors and remote educrats). Can no one rid us of such subliterate, stupid weasels? *sigh* Hard labor on chain gangs is too good for these parasites.
13. Lawyers. Yeh, there are two or three good lawyers. Perhaps even more (my sample set may be skewed *heh* ;-)). But we have far, far too many lawyers and far, far too many laws, lawsuits and people in prisons* (and people putting people in prisons, and often for the most assinine of reasons, see The Martha Rule, below the fold).
Well, that’s T-13, 1.3. See here for more T-13s. And read more below the fold about my T-13 today.
