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Originally Posted by Normy
The thing to do is to try to change it. In every job I've ever had, I've had to fight and cajole and work to get into the situation, and when I got there, I tried to improve the place. I've never been fired from a job, and every job I've left was better than when I started. I post a lot of crap on the OT: Politics and Religion section because I think that a lot of negative people with only $ signs in their eyes are actively trying to change the United States. They are being supported by a lot of people who have lost the ability to think, and have a lot of hatred in their heart. I won't stand for ANY of it, and I take action.
The long and short is if you want to shut your eyes, then do it, but you'd be better off engaging society and the news and trying to make it better.
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First, I hope this doesn't become a thread about ME !!!! God help us all....
I agree 99.9% with you Normy.
It's just I don't trust the news anymore.
Any of it, from any source.
Nor am I sure anyone that does follow it can do any more than add their voice to the already deafening noise.
Yeah, I know - you only need to reach one person....
I can say the same thing about my job history as you. I have always done things the right way, not the easy way. True when I tried to make art as in doing public service.
I know that matters - intellectually - and I will continue to try my best - but I am seeing less and less of the actual fruit ( forgive my continued use of that metaphor).
I know we are messy, ugly creatures and I know we are also capable of wonderful and great things.
It is just discouraging, that is all I was trying to say, to see over and over, on every level what seems to be a loss of simple moral responsibility.
This Paterno thing is just another example of someone who was a positive example suddenly being not so much, and/or a culture that enables a good man to lose his bearings in what is a rather clear matter of right vs. wrong.
I am just back from eating dinner tonight at a local Thai restaurant - at the bar.
Someone I know comes in and sits down nearby.
He is (recently) married to a beautiful woman - and the whole time he was there he was discussing with the owner a pretty young thing that comes in every now and then and how disappointed he was he missed her and wanted the owner to call him the next time she was in and he said he would do it - the whole thing was a joke to them - not as in just kidding, but as an amusing arrangement...
Maybe I have developed a too thin skin, as I see and hear of this kind of thing almost daily ( just in this piss ant town)....
Paul, I don't know there is anyplace to go to escape it.
People are the same everywhere - and becoming less so IMHO.