GIVING GOOD ADVICE, OR . . . ?

Who reads blogs for good advice?

If you do, is there any follow through?

Asking what to do means there might be a problem.

The biggest problem is when you’re the only one who sees the problem.

Then what?

I’m an advice seeker in the sense I’m interested in why anyone would follow along instead of figuring things out for themselves.

Following along is not very ‘alpha,’ if that matters to the people who suspect you might be an idiot.

The truth is, if they’re wondering, they’ve already decided.

Now you’ll change their mind by pretending you speak other languages? Good try.

I was in Spain asking a clerk for the WiFi password where my wife and I were.

A piece of paper on the wall said WiFi password needed.

So I asked, and they pretended not to understand the English word because in Spain it’s pronounced WeeFee, not WhyFhy.

The place was a hospital in Granada, a public hospital, not a private one.

The path to the front trailed through a carpet of cigarette butts, the cafeteria had two beer taps, and smoking was allowed in patient rooms and hallways.

I didn’t know the Spanish word for ‘This shit is a mess’ so I stayed in my lane.

I’m at the reception desk asking about wifi, the clerk is confused, then I point to the paper on the wall with WiFi printed on it.

“Oh. WeeFee,” as if it just occurred to them.

It reminded me of the assurance I got with, ‘You don’t need to speak another language in Europe, everyone speaks English.’

Everyone except the people I spoke to.

 

Communication Breakdown, Not Emotional Breakdown

Every time I hear someone talk about the people who stormed the Capitol and explain it away as an innocent tour group I’m reminded how easily fooled some folks can be.

Almost like they don’t speak English.

The correct word is insurrection.

From Google AI:

An insurrection is an organized, usually violent uprising of citizens or subjects intended to defeat, overthrow, or forcibly resist an established government or governing authority.

It sits on a spectrum of civil unrest, acting as a more extensive and active revolt than sedition (inciting a revolt) but remaining more localized or specific than a full-scale rebellion or revolution.

When a pant-load on a microphone gives ambiguous directions to a fired up crowd, then denies it, the individuals need to understand the situation.

If you step over the line there will be consequences, most likely unpleasant consequences, for the truth you think you heard.

Social media encourages everyone to do more.

You’re no longer the fat mope complaining how life has done you wrong. Oh, no.

Now YOU are a journalist, an historian, a doctor, and a lawyer.

You are everything you’ve never been; through social media you are the same as those who spent years and years gaining the education and experience needed to qualify for those same professions.

They were not insurrectionists, they were a normal tour group paying respects to our nations capitol.

It’s an easy mistake to make.

 

Following Orders Is A Poor Excuse

This is a group of men gathered after WWII who claimed to be following orders.

Were they bad men? More than that, they were evil, which is no exaggeration.

E V I L is what they are, evil is what they did, and on this day they were answering the big question: What the fuck is wrong with you?

Was it wrong to bring them to account? No, there should have been more of them sitting there.

These men followed orders that sent them to prison, the gallows, to firing squads.

Any association to them, about them, that portrays them as anything less than evil is a red flag, a very large, very red, flag.

What were they thinking? Was it, ‘We are evil, depraved, sons of bitches who deserve to die?’

Probably not. Did they forget the English word for their deeds?

Probably not.

 

PS:

Were they subhuman vermin, or good men who made understandable mistakes?

 

PSS:

They were men who knew what they did and wanted to escape responsibility.

They were conscious, accountable, subhuman vermin who deserved every inch of rope.

Don’t be like them, think like them, or look like them.