If you’re stupid enough to believe you have any, you deserve whatever you have coming to you. There’s a huge difference in the way things supposedly work and the way they actually work. Idealism is nice, and if you’re actively striving to make the world a better place to live in, I applaud you, but still all the same realize in the mean time, the world is not actually that way.
For example, if your boss doesn’t like you for personal reasons, he or she CAN in fact, fire you. It has happened to me various times. Yeah sure, legally, they don’t have the “right” to do that, but so fucking what?
You’re walking down the street doing absolutely nothing illegal. A cop comes driving down the street, stops, and shakes you down. Did he legally have the “right” to do that? No, of course he didn’t. Did he do it? Yeah. Did he get away with it? Hell yeah! Are the framers of the Constitution rolling over in their graves? No! They are sleeping peacefully, and besides, they would’ve done the same thing had they been in the cop’s shoes because you look funny.
You get arrested for something you didn’t do. The prosecutor digs up your blog, picks a few choice controversial pieces, and hands out Xeroxes to the members of the jury. Even though the blog entries had absolutely nothing to do with the crime you supposedly perpetrated, the jury are a bunch of sheep and they decide you must’ve done it because they were offended by your blog. You get a hefty sentence. Does this actually happen? I don’t know. I invented the scenario. But shit like this happens all the time. I’ve witnessed it first hand, just not a blog in particular. I didn’t want to be too specific. Speaking of specific:
Your landlord is beginning to get the impression that you’re on drugs and/ or crazy. On top of that, you filed a formal complaint to the government complaining that you live in deplorable conditions and the landlord found out that you talltle-taled on him. He eventually found a reason to evict you, and although you spent months in court trying to fight it, they eventually evicted you. Where were your rights in this incident? not/ applicable i.e. nonexistent. Was this fair? No. Did you use your time and energy in a constructive manner? Hell No!!!!!!!!
Does anybody care? , . . . well yeah, a lot of people care, but just because they do, that doesn’t change anything. And on top of that, half the time, they’re just pretending to care anyway. And just because you go about your life as if the conditions were already idealistic, that doesn’t make it so. Rather than getting stuck on the way things should be, focus on the way they actually are and work around it to make your life as happy and enjoyable as possible. Wow, that sounds preachy, huh? Let me rephrase that: IDEALLY, you should not get stuck on the way things should be, but on how they actually are.
I could go around in circles all day like this.
The bosses, judges, lawyers, and cops will always win, and in the mean time, you’re just wasting your time. Just avoid them. Or if you really want to fight it, do it constructively. Don’t insist on putting yourself in these situations where you’re at their mercy. It’s pointless.
Oh, I thought of a good example that has nothing to do with the legal system: sex.
Two people meet. They’re attracted to each other. They like each other. Should they fuck each other? Hell yeah!, . . . ideally, . . . But more often than not, one blows the other off. Or in severe occasions, they reject each other simultaneously. Why did this happen? Because people are inherently lame.
Ideally, it should matter what’s on the inside right? Well, that’s what TV pretends to believe, but just for the sake of making a point, let’s say everything lined up physically, mentally, emotionally. Everything was great! What happened? Pecking order bullshit! The rejected wasn’t in a band, or didn’t dress like a hipster or whatever stupid fucking trend was going on at the time, or didn’t have a lot of money, or wasn’t good on a skateboard, or didn’t own a car, or didn’t have a prestigious job, or didn’t go around picking fist-fights with people or whatever failure in any category the blow-offer felt to be most important in establishing one’s level in society’s pecking order. In severe circumstances, it could even be a third party convincing one of them to blow off the other or even the opposite to hook up with someone they didn’t even really like. Even though I’ld like to think I’ve never played a part in any of this nonsense, I have, and on every level. Except for the trendy thing though. Trendiness can be a major deal-breaker for me. Actually, I’m referring to a past Tomatoes. I no longer have the energy to care about what people think of my sexual partners.
Why does this happen? Because people suck. They care more about what other people care about than what they themselves actually care about. Popularity breeds popularity.
I had no right to be smoking on the beach.
