People

I've noticed a rather disturbing infestation around my home. There are people everywhere. So many of them driving around like maniacs, in a big hurry to go nowhere. And they are always around, looming the halls of my workplace, chatting it up on the phone, yelling at each other in the streets at 1:00a.m.

Why are there so many? And why hasn't some superbug come along and wiped out what seems to be a vast overpopulation of humans? There are too many of us. Even if we rapidly cut our industrial emissions of carbon, just the sheer number of us breathing should continue warming the planet significantly. And there's the end of oil coming at some point, it can't go on forever. What will we do without an intermediate form of energy?

Basically, the game is over. The jig is up. At some point in the next 50-100 years civilization as we know it will crumble. And by civilization, I mean industrialized civilization. There's just not enough resources to go around. And, we've seen, exclusive groups hog all the resources anyway. And we've all seen what happens when resources run out and people get desperate. Are you ready for WWIII? Those of us in first or second world countries are going to have to learn to get by with a lot less.

Or maybe we won't have to sacrifice at all. Our kids may have to, the suckers! They should have been born earlier.

I hope it holds out until I'm gone. . . . but I think it's wishful thinking.

First Rant

Signed up for a refinance of the house today. But when I see the totals on the sheet it just makes me wonder what we're doing paying all this money and being responsible in these times. It also makes me hate bankers more and more. Their reaction to receiving all that cold cash from the government is to nickel and dime everyone on everything. I bet they still get their bonuses this year and can buy a Lexus for the offspring that use them as ATMs this year too. I say Lexus because all the U.S. car companies should be allowed to die within the year, but they won't.

I don't know what it is, but I've had a strange suspicion rolling around in the back of my head for a while now. Something makes me think that the whole economic crisis is contrived. It all seems too convenient, too easy a way for mounds of cash to be funneled into the hands of irresponsible, morally reprehensible, yet extremely well-connected people, from the car companies (way to back a dead horse, by the way) all the way up to the too big to fail banks.

Plus, creating a storm of layoffs and job loss lowers operating costs, allowing companies to find cheaper labor and expect more out of workers for the same pay. You don't want to lose your job, so you'd better put in 14 hour days and like it.

Now pay the man. So how do you like your tax money going to a bunch of morons (or geniuses, perhaps?) that are going to horde the money, pay you less, and give even more bonuses to the top dogs? Kick in your 401k and home value vaporizing and whaddya get? Two things, the first being jack.

And what are you gonna do about it? That's right, nothing. Because the fact remains that we still have it pretty good in this country, and maybe it'll make us understand the rest of the world a little better when we get such a clear view of how the rich and powerful abuse their power to no end.

It's a suckers game. You know, thinking.