I’m kind of partial to old movies, especially Film Noir and B-horror/Sci Fi from the 40’s and 50’s. On the 9th of December Kirk Douglas will turn 98 fucking years old (if he lives that long). I hear he’s a damned lecher and a womanizer – in fact as I recall just a year or so ago he was accused of sexual assault. You would think someone with as much money, fame and fortune as he has could at least keep his shit behind closed doors – I mean (and not to be crude or crass) he could buy any elite hooker on the planet and have his own private little “Fantasy Island” somewhere yet he ends up on the front page for drooling all over someone that probably trusted or even admired him.
I bring this up only because I see so many people, honest and hurting people including myself that really tried to make a difference – a good difference in the lives of people we loved or cared for to be thrown in the gutter for some unknown reason. Every day I see more and more people that just walk all over everyone in their path. We get pushed and shoved in the grocery store. People never stop at stop signs. Nobody ever merges in behind anyone when they get on to the freeway, they jam in front of someone and slam on their brakes. People act like they were raised by wild animals – no respect, no consideration, no manners.
It’s really no wonder why some of us want to give up. Life has become a cesspool and if one cannot compete in a dog-eat-dog society we get slaughtered like cattle in a stockyard. We were born to care for each other, not behave like troupes of Bonobos fighting over a banana tree.
What the hell has happened to us?
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Yeah, it has truly hit home for me the last few years that indeed, life is not fair. Crappy people get ahead in life, treat other people poorly, and get fame and fortune.
I absolutely hate driving anymore because of stuff like you described. So frustrating trying to be on the road with people who always have to be first.
It is a dog eat dog world. You suggest we were born to be better than this, but who knows, maybe we weren’t. We’re just animals and the law of nature is to fight for yourself. Maybe the people who are complete jerks and get to live their lives with millions of dollars and attention are actually doing it right. We only have one go around and maybe we should just scratch a claw and get as much as we can for ourselves.
I don’t really believe that, but sometimes I do wonder. I choose to live with some code of morality despite not believing in any afterlife or any “reason” to be a good person, other than empathy for others. But maybe the jerks are right. Maybe they get to spend their lives with cars and money and admiration and the only thing we are taking to our grave is our silly sense of morality and a belief that we were “good”. I hope that’s not the case, but maybe this is all meaningless and they people who do whatever they want while they are here get better use out of their life.
Oh man, you are so right. Dog eat dog world. People are like horses, they have to be carefully “broken in” and if not they run roughshod. Most people do not have anyone to train them. I mean most have got parents but the parents don’t take the time to actually raise the child they made. They send it off to school and expect it to learn everything it needs to know to be great (or even civil). Well the purpose of the school is to teach facts, not life, and we all know school is just as much of a dog eat dog world as the outside world. Most parents feel that if they produce the actual body they’ve done enough and don’t put the effort into producing the mind and the behaviors.
I have no answer for why evil people get everything and good people are left to suffer. It makes me wonder if I had had an evil soul, would my body have been healthy and beautiful rather than disfigured? I try to be good, in spite of not expecting any reward for it, because the dignity and integrity of my soul is worth it to me. I do not want to debase myself by stooping to the level of filth and cruelty to get more goodies out of life.
Well said! That was refreshing to read!
I totally hear you – you are very well spoken.
I was meditating on this exact thing a few days ago. I’ve spent my entire life trying to be nice, respectful, and basically a good person. I only take what I need, try to help others, don’t intentionally fuck anyone over, tread lightly on the planet, and I treat other life forms the way I’d like to be treated. Not because some damn holy book says to, but because I truly want to.
Never mind that, though, I (like you and many others) get fucked by all the bastards who don’t give a flying fuck about anyone or anything. I don’t get it. I’d like to believe in karma, but I don’t. My grandfather was a pedophile, sadist, and if memory serves me correctly, a murderer, yet he lived a wonderful, full, rich life and was well respected.
I don’t fucking get it, either.