no progress

Here I am typing on this tiny screen.  Bad enough that this country has no pubic transport, but now, thanks to the so-called "computer revolution", I have to shell out money every couple of years
for this!

My father is waiting for me.  I need to empty his urinals.

I am trying to join a Participatory Society based on line.  And after spending time filling
out the form, my application form doesn't work.

I am getting a headache.

Computers have not made my life better.

Internet Crowding

I just want to register a protest, a complaint, I just want to shout at the top of my lungs about the worthlessness of the internet.
Progress?
Progress?
Make me laugh!

Any internet page I know of is full of too much stuff.  (That includes this page.)
You cannot take it all in at a glance.
You miss something.
Inevitably.

Why is that so?  Why must every page be like that?

Compared to that, the average page of a book is refreshingly uncluttered.

The internet has made my life better?  No, really not at all.  I can imagine hundreds of ways my life could be better, without the internet.....

(An easy reaction to the above:  But you are using the internet now! ---- Yeah, and right now I have no job, no room of my own, no privacy, and also no friends within three thousand miles......So, what kind of life do I really have?  Oh, great, I can look at pictures of real people in Facebook.  Actually facebook makes me want to throw up; it's so useless.....)))  ((And before I had daily access to the internet, I had all of those things.--friends, a job, a life-----....that's the sort of difference the Internet has made to my life.....))

Thinking of books:  that's why they have tables of contents......Yet, for the internet, the idea has been tossed out.  And that's supposed to be progress?

a hypothesis, of sorts.....

I gather that there are businesses--so called---which monitor blogs like this one.  And they say that they are measuring something like "negativity".

talk about pseudo-science.  It looks like they are attempting to measuring content without paying attention to what's being said, or the truth or falsity of it.....

If I describe a bad thing using "bad" words, am I negative---or is it the thing I describe that is negative?

But, in any case, I don't appreciate this attempt to monitor me, not at all....

And I want to make a bet, or a sort of prediction.  I bet that my blog will be counted by them as negative, but the words of an intelligent but unprincipled political leader as he justifies murder will not be counted as "negative" by their techniques....

So much the worse for this particular form of pseudo-science, if I am right........

update, Sunday, 1 April 2012

El Pasoans are still assholes:  boom-boom-boom, in my ear right now, and earlier in the day.


Weather report:  wind, wind, wind, dust, dust, dust, ychh, yccchhh!,   yccccchhhhh!!!

gmooh

I don't like the thought that I've just written an email complaining about a purchase...

And maybe it has been answered by someone in India or on the other side of the globe....

someone not especially well treated by the company who pays them to answer my emails

And I've complained because something I purchased for my elderly parents was defective.

And I've stressed how it was for two old people, who don't have much chance to get out of the house.

And What about the person reading my message?  What about her parents?  Do they enjoy worse health than my own parents?  Might they be, for example, victims of a chemical spill by a USA company?
Or worse?

I'm being virtuous because it is for my parents?  But what about the parents of the person who is writing me "I am sorry"????  They deserve happiness every bit as much as my own parents.

But why is it that I have this sinking feeling.....why is it that I am worried or suspicious that probably
they have less than my own parents?

Because most of the world is less prosperous than the so-called developed nations, and that is not right, not good----cannot be justified.

our criminal society

"Marcuse observes that a consumers' society has replaced a troubled by a clear conscience and that it condemns all feelings of guilt.  But its peace of mind has to be disturbed.   As far as old people are concerned this society is not only guilty but downright criminal."--Simone de Beauvoir, "The Coming of Age"

the crisis

There is enough money out there, but it is sitting around.  Why?  Because the money is in the hands of a minority---"the 1%"---and that small minority cares about only one thing:  increasing their money.
So, they wont' invest it and they won't create jobs.  But what gives them the right to decide for us?  And how, actually, did they get all that money?  Those are the questions people should be asking.

In the meantime, here is a link to a useful report about what's going on in Europe.  And, I hope that anyone reading this will understand that what is going on in Europe is continuous with what is going on in the USA.

Francisco Louca makes two very important points in this interview:  First,   there is an ongoing attempt to make life for working people miserable---no public education, no health insurance, no rights in the workplace.  Secondly, people need to understand that if isolated individuals resist, they will be crushed; hence, organization and collective action is necessary....

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival