Saturday 2/22/25
Regarding most people: It's their error but it'll be someone else's fault.
Typically, people only want to talk about themselves and now--with what the world has become and how people are as a result--can only talk about themselves. That is, they are incapable of talking about anything else. They don't know themselves, so they're speaking out of ignorance. And they don't know how boring, shallow, and indistinct they are as well, so it's like having someone talk to you about the least interesting topic.
Even when people look like they're talking about something else, they're really not. It's about them. It all comes back to them. In their minds, as they're talking about whatever, they are thinking about themselves
People have no interests. They have lost the ability to have interests. This isn't only in subjects and areas--it's in anyone else. This means no one really cares for anyone else or knows how to and that everyone is alone. This is why people are unhappy. Everything in society at present works to make people unhappy and might as well have been designed to do so. People can't break the cycle or from anything that it has been decided--first, for them, and then second, with their complicity--that they need. That would take too much individuality, what now passes for courage, and intelligence. Basically no one possesses any of these things and there's nowhere that they might acquire them in seed form and start to build up within themselves.
Being incapable of being interested in anything or anyone but themselves, people default to the same sheet from their social playbook when they want something from someone else, which they want, as with anything they want, for themselves. They ask rote questions. Not because they care about the answers, but because they believe this is something they have to do in order to get what they want. "I want a boyfriend, I want to be married, I don't want to be alone, so: How many siblings do you have? Where did you grow up? What school did you go to?"
These questions can be asked to anyone. They're a constant. They have nothing to do with wanting to know the answers to these questions of the people who are being asked them. They're procedural. This isn't talking. And it doesn't lead to connection.
The internet and social media is why nearly everyone is this way, including people who aren't on either of them that much or even at all. This is the sociological environment. Just about everyone is in large part a product of their environment and hardly anyone is their own person to such a degree that they're going to be what they're going to be regardless of anything else. People are assimilated into the general patterns of behavior without knowing it. Those patterns are all but inescapable now because of technology.
No real surprises with the Four Nations tournament. The Americans act like children, stomp around, plan some contrived fights in a pre-game group chat, make too much out of winning a round robin game, ultimately fall in final to the team with the better players who handled their business. One of the American ringleaders/fighters gets injured, and an overrated, weak defenseman who plainly cared more about this meaningless tournament than he does playing for his actual team lands himself in the hospital and out of the line-up for his actual team. If you're going to act like meatheads, get yourself hurt, and lose, you've earned the philippics coming your way. Fitting that McDavid notched the winner. He's a classy individual, too. Says the right things. The upper level star power on that Canadian team was impressive.
People give Donald Trump exactly what he wants--the ones, that is, who go on and on about him and make everything about him. He just says shit. That's what he does. He's a political troll. The troll wants attention. Having gotten attention, the troll tries to get more of it, using the same techniques, upping the absurdity of those techniques and the ignorance explicit in them. With what he's doing and the stupidity and gullibility of the American people--and the typical liberal mindset--he can make a crack about taking over Canada and millions of people will seriously think that this is a serious, literal indication of a plan in the making irather than it just being some jackass saying something because he knows it will get a rise out of so many. He gets off on it. And it works for him--it made him president twice, after all--because that's how the world is now. It's amusing because you have all of these people who deserve each other down there in the lowest common denominator nasty street puddles of our age, and they think they're opposites. But I find it's comical that so many people thought a mid-season exhibition game was actually about Canada standing up to the US which is about to drive tanks across the border and take over a nation.
There were some Canadians in their team Canada hockey jerseys wheezing in the Monument Thursday after like seventy stairs and I was tempted to say, "What is this, the start of the 1972 Summit Series, because I see some out of shape Canadians here," but that would have been seen as fat shaming--when really it would have been "You're a lazy lump who never moves" shaming--and they wouldn't have gotten the joke because no one knows anything about anything and certainly nothing from before they were born.
Anyone who says, "I was today years old when..." should be forced to leave the human race. It'd be nice to have a planet that could be used as a dump site for such exiles.
I saw a woman write, "My flabber was gasted..." I've seen this many times. People think this is clever. That's the world now.
Most men just want someone whose body they can use. Many women are misandrists. Almost everyone is profoundly unhappy. Then they must lie about this in terms of an "outward face" for the world, and keep up that facade, which is one of the things social media is for. Naturally, doing so is exhausting. It sucks away energy. Thus, people have less energy than they otherwise would. Energy is vital. Without it, you are going nowhere and will be nothing. Hence, people stay in the same rut--which gets deeper and deeper, the walls getting higher and higher--and in a very real way aren't anything, save there. Being there isn't the same as being something. It's just technically attendance. Passive attendance.
Saw this woman who checked the typical boxes--she was large, had cats, talked in internet speak which had become the whole of her regular speak, and showed that she had no idea how a comma works in her bio--who billed herself as a relationship expert for women (women just like her, no doubt, and every bit as stupid). She used the word "we" in speaking about her clients. "We broke up with three men this week and put four others and left seven others on read." Her bio also included stats: "Got three women married last year and another a ring."
Someone yesterday said to me, "I only work and gym." You gym? Does that mean talk like a moron? "Hey, I'm Colin. I only work and stair."
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