fuck it, i give up

[rone]

Nearly a year ago, i wrote,

And worst of all, our country will continue to suffer under the uncaring eye of the Bush administration and nobody will even notice because, hey, don't you know there's a war going on?

[...]

[It's] plain now, as it was four years ago, that he is a poor leader.

Well, people noticed.  But that hasn't changed the way the Bush administration works, as the terrible story of Michael Brown has given way to even more cronyism.  And that's really the point: nothing has changed.  Every time something horrible has come out of the White House, i've said, "I'm not surprised."  Then why am i still paying attention to what happens?  It's not changing anything, and it's not doing me any favors.

There was a time when i didn't want to shield myself from the news, but that's no longer the case.  It's eating me up, especially when i read about anyone defending the indefensible.  So i've thrown all of my political RSS feeds off my reading filter (well, except for the comics, because those i don't take seriously).  Whatever happens in the world of politics between now and midterm elections, i don't want to know about it.  I don't need to know about it.  Odds are that nothing that happens in the next 13½ months will be any improvement over what's happened in the past almost five years.  I'm tired of being so negative, and i know some of you are tired of it, too.  So fuck it.  Come Nov 8 2006, i'll turn my eyes back to the political landscape, to see if America is any better off.

Until then, well, i can worry about more pertinent things, like why the retarded Department of Justice is cockblocking the acquisition of my employer and thereby causing an unprecedented lack of industry in my department, not to mention a vague sense of dread.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I might need to duck out for a little while, too, just to keep the rage from making me say stupid crazy things in private. (You don't see the worst of it on LJ.)

Also, I've been reading a lot of contentious identity-politics flamewars full of self-righteous 20-year-old hipsters excoriating everyone who doesn't live like a self-righteous 20-year-old hipster and arguing with Flintstone patriarchalists and dittohead fratboy flamebaiters, and they're just making me feel like crap for being inadequate according to all sides, since I have neither a personal friendship with Jesus nor the special kind of orgasms that are ideologically better than the normal variety. And a lot of really choice blistering end-of-the-world rants by people who swiped Hunter S. Thompson's prose style and are scarily eager to see society disintegrate so they can participate in mass rioting. This stuff can be diverting in small doses but you get too much of it and the bees in your brain start buzzing, buzzing, buzzing like you took too many Sudafed and your sleep schedule is really off.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

nor the special kind of orgasms that are ideologically better

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Now i wonder if your spamfilter will catch the notification for this comment.

who swiped Hunter S. Thompson's prose style

Not so much of a swipe as just rubbed their faces in it and hoped osmosis would do the job, really.