{"id":36332,"date":"2013-06-27T22:56:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T02:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=36332"},"modified":"2020-07-06T22:57:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T02:57:05","slug":"if-ignorance-is-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=36332","title":{"rendered":"If ignorance is strength"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Then I must be a pretty strong motherfucker.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like, this week, there\u2019ve been a lot of pretty major notable events in the world that people are talking about.\u00a0 Which is another way of saying that\u2019s what people on my limited Facebook news feed are going on about, that I\u2019ve got little to no clue to what it really is.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t care about all these things, but if it doesn\u2019t affect my course of daily life, then I can\u2019t really say that I\u2019d be paying attention to it in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Take for example the story of Wendy Davis and her 13-hour filibuster in Texas.\u00a0 I had no clue to what it was about in the first place.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t sure if people I knew were for it or against it; based on the copious amounts of buzzwords, flaky allegiance and when all else fails, memes, in regards to the topic, I found it to be confusing.\u00a0 I see the name \u201cTexas\u201d and automatically assume that it\u2019s probably some overly conservative nut-job trying to ruin everyone else\u2019s lives in the name of god or something.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until I was bored enough to find out details of this event that I was able to come to my own conclusion of how I felt about the whole situation, as well as the gist of it, generally.<\/span><\/p>\n

And although it\u2019s kind of inappropriate, I have to say that regardless of what side of the fence you\u2019re on, I find something attractive and cougar-y about Wendy Davis.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then there was the whole Supreme Court versus gay marriage thing all over again.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t even realize that this was coming up again.\u00a0 All I knew was that suddenly people on Facebook were changing their icons to pink equal signs all over again, prompting me to look at my screen and go \u201cnot this shit again.\u201d\u00a0 Seriously, I understand that it\u2019s a positive message, done in good intentions, but me personally I think it\u2019s pointless and doesn\u2019t really accomplish anything other than being a sheep in the machine, but that\u2019s me, and I know I\u2019m a contrarian prick a lot of the time that goes against the grain by default, often times for no other sake than going against the grain.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, as a pretty liberal minded guy, I\u2019m fine with the direction of how things turned out.\u00a0 Gay folks\u00a0should<\/em>\u00a0be treated like everyone else \u2013 meaning they have as much right to be miserable and jaded by the concept and execution of marriage, and be subject to radical divorce penalties as much as everyone else does.\u00a0 The point of this post remains though; I had no idea that it was even back in the mainstream light again until I saw everyone blathering on about it and changing their icons.\u00a0 I guess I just don\u2019t pay attention to what\u2019s going on in \u201cthe mainstream.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

More recently is the whole trial against the guy who shot and killed the black kid in Florida.\u00a0 The George Zimmerman case.\u00a0 I so want to call him George Zimmer, the Men\u2019s Warehouse guy who was recently fired; man, it must suck to be George Zimmer lately, for all the people who are mistaking him for the racist murderer in Florida.\u00a0 But anyway, I had no idea that this was even still going to trial.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t the killing happen like a year ago?\u00a0 Why is just now going to trial?\u00a0 I mean I know the legal system is slow, compromised and corrupted, but Jesus Christ that\u2019s a long time to wait.<\/span><\/p>\n

The funniest thing about this is that I was watching some of the televised parts of one of the witnesses for the prosecution, claiming to be the friend that Trayvon Martin was on the phone with at the time of his killing.\u00a0 For starters, for an alleged 19-year old, she looked like she was Trayvon Martin\u2019s mom.\u00a0 But it was almost painful to watch the defense lawyers grilling her and repeating the same questions with varying phrases to confuse her and see how her answers varied, to which a petrified girl collapsed on public television like a house of cards.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sad thing about this trial is that it\u2019s even happening.\u00a0 I mean, from enough steps away, is that it\u2019s essentially the story about a paranoid, racist man thinking that a black teenager is up to no good, and shoots and kills him without any genuine provocation.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to pretend like I understand how the legal system works, but from my plebeian standpoint, it\u2019s about as layup of a clear cut case as there should be.\u00a0 It\u2019s obvious that as long as it involves race, it\u2019s a perfect excuse to make a spectacle out of, and in the end, there really isn\u2019t going to be a winner, because if Zimmerman is guilty, it\u2019s because the kid was black, and if Zimmerman is found innocent, it\u2019s because the kid was black.\u00a0 No winners, only losers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aaron Hernandez, in spite of the circus surrounding the fact that he killed a guy, will likely be found not guilty somehow, because he is a professional athlete, and the United States is too far up the nuts of the NFL to let anything happen to an NFL player.\u00a0 I mean, it\u2019s been 13 years since Ray Lewis murdered a guy, but now that he\u2019s retired and gone, his title of \u201cactive murderer\u201d needs to go to someone else, to which it should fit like a glove on Hernandez.\u00a0 Not that I give a shit about the whole trial process that is going to take place, but I am a little curious to see what Hernandez\u2019s defense is going to be, or rather more to the point, if it\u2019s just going to be \u201cI had nothing to do with it\u201d over and over again like Ray Lewis did, while the prosecution bargains with those trying to bribe them into a not-guilty verdict.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Hernandez goes free, and goes back to the NFL, I really hope he gets picked up by the Ravens.\u00a0 The comedy from that alone would transcend decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the bottom line to all of this is that in the end, I really don\u2019t care about any of these matters.\u00a0 Sure, they might be something to talk about or write about, but none of them really impact my daily life.\u00a0 \u00a0Maybe it\u2019s my choice to want to live in somewhat of a metaphorical box, but there are a lot of things that I think about more than these current affairs.\u00a0 Some of which include:<\/span><\/p>\n