ok, so bare with me for a sec. I feel a rant coming on, and i have to set the stage real quick. I'm eating mac n cheese (annies organic shells but still) out of the pot, with a wooden spoon.
SOAPBOX
I fucking hate poor people. Sickly evil wretched nasty poor people. Poverty is a mentality that i simply cannot abide, cannot accept. I can handle most religions, dogmas, idiosyncrasies, but i fucking hate poor people badly. capital H. now before you jump to conclusions, hear me out. Being poor has nothing to do with money. Simply accepting what shit life has to offer, being bitter about the poor choices they've made out of habit reflex or utter stupidity. angry at the world for being there, and not holding their hand through every little step of the game. milking the system to perpetuate their own drug induced downward spiral. Skells, as we refer to them, don't even deserve the shitty life that they lead. the almost always deserve way less. Skells don't own their life, they lease it out, sell it cheap, pander these precious seconds as if they could go on forever. Waste away. Die. and nobody should care, except they exist in the edges, the periphery of a thinking life, as an abject lesson of what to can happen to you, us, me if we just fuck it all off and let the reptile brain take over. Now i'm not talking about people in struggle, or those with a troubled life. I'm talking about those sickly fucks who twist their misdeeds and travesties into other people's responsibilities. I'm talking about a 60 yo woman heroin addict, with non A/B Hep alcoholic liar whose only goal is to exist in the same bullshit fabrications that have sustained her to date. I'm talking about people who have choices, who could have a better life, but walk away from the choice because it looks hard. Petty useless ignorant people. Skells. I hate skells.
/SOAPBOX
ok, now in my defense:
I've lived at nearly every economic level from 6 figure tax brackets on down. My own adult life has been primarily under the poverty level. i have not completed a college education. I have fear of sliding into a wasted life with no accomplishments to remark upon on my deathbed. I rely heavily on my family. I've been homeless at a age when most people are just starting to sleep in their own beds all night. I am a bastard. I have addicts in my family. I enjoy the fuck out of life, every chance i get, because i know i ain't getting anymore when it's done. i try to exist within my means, but i'll never count pennies. I can't exist without beauty, but lucky for me it's everywhere.
well that about sums that up.
SOAPBOX
I fucking hate poor people. Sickly evil wretched nasty poor people. Poverty is a mentality that i simply cannot abide, cannot accept. I can handle most religions, dogmas, idiosyncrasies, but i fucking hate poor people badly. capital H. now before you jump to conclusions, hear me out. Being poor has nothing to do with money. Simply accepting what shit life has to offer, being bitter about the poor choices they've made out of habit reflex or utter stupidity. angry at the world for being there, and not holding their hand through every little step of the game. milking the system to perpetuate their own drug induced downward spiral. Skells, as we refer to them, don't even deserve the shitty life that they lead. the almost always deserve way less. Skells don't own their life, they lease it out, sell it cheap, pander these precious seconds as if they could go on forever. Waste away. Die. and nobody should care, except they exist in the edges, the periphery of a thinking life, as an abject lesson of what to can happen to you, us, me if we just fuck it all off and let the reptile brain take over. Now i'm not talking about people in struggle, or those with a troubled life. I'm talking about those sickly fucks who twist their misdeeds and travesties into other people's responsibilities. I'm talking about a 60 yo woman heroin addict, with non A/B Hep alcoholic liar whose only goal is to exist in the same bullshit fabrications that have sustained her to date. I'm talking about people who have choices, who could have a better life, but walk away from the choice because it looks hard. Petty useless ignorant people. Skells. I hate skells.
/SOAPBOX
ok, now in my defense:
I've lived at nearly every economic level from 6 figure tax brackets on down. My own adult life has been primarily under the poverty level. i have not completed a college education. I have fear of sliding into a wasted life with no accomplishments to remark upon on my deathbed. I rely heavily on my family. I've been homeless at a age when most people are just starting to sleep in their own beds all night. I am a bastard. I have addicts in my family. I enjoy the fuck out of life, every chance i get, because i know i ain't getting anymore when it's done. i try to exist within my means, but i'll never count pennies. I can't exist without beauty, but lucky for me it's everywhere.
well that about sums that up.
lowroller:
That's fair enough. Nothing to add.
noir:
Hey, you just called my poor in my journal. 