WIBCI today’s heroes were better?
Remember the phrase ‘Don’t be a Hero’? Per thefreedictionary.com it defines this idiom as follows:
don’t be a hero
clichéDon’t put yourself in harm’s way in order to save other people.
WIBCI we paid attention to the pattern of failure?
It seems to me that what we are talking about are is the possibility of people who have been put on pedestals, and ‘God-ed up’ for such a long period of time, that they lose touch with everyday rules and they think their privilege exists beyond what other people think it is.
-Tony Kornheiser Pardon the Interruption
This was said about a fallen sports hero, but I feel this quote could be attributed to a myriad of people in today’s cesspool of personalities.
Who do YOU think Kornheiser is referring to in 2o15? If it wasn’t limited to sports and 2015, who could this quote be referring to today?
WIBCI we learned to Live Life Lyrically?
Think of a song you really like and use the ole inter-webs to find the lyrics. No matter how many times you heard a song, no matter how ‘by heart’ you think you know it, I bet you learn something and/or think of the song differently when you read word for word what the artist/poet wrote.
Love, I get so lost sometimesDays pass and this emptiness fills my heart
When I want to run away, I drive off in my car
But whichever way I goI come back to the place you are
All my instincts, they return
The grand facade, so soon will burn
Without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the insideIn your eyes
The light, the heat(in your eyes)
I am complete(in your eyes)
I see the doorway(in your eyes)
To a thousand churches(in your eyes)
The resolution(in your eyes)
Of all the fruitless searches(in your eyes)
Oh, I see the light and the heat
(in your eyes)
Oh, I wanna be that complete
I wanna touch the light, the heat, I see in your eyesLove, I don’t like to see so much pain
So much wasted, and this moment keeps slipping away
I get so tired working so hard for our survival
I look to the time with you, to keep me awake and aliveAnd all my instincts, they return
And the grand facade, so soon will burn
Without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside
WIBCI HISTORY were more ingrained in us?
Paul Strathern said of a person:
“…a teacher throughout his life and never sought to hold public office, yet no man throughout human history has ever had such a lasting effect on the world. “
Who do YOU think Paul Strathern is discussing? Think about it and I’ll let you know in WIBCI Post #96.… more “WIBCI Post #90”
WIBCI we thought more about the WORDS we use?
You ever notice that words, like songs, can get played out? Like they don’t mean what they were supposed to mean anymore.
Take this word for instance: GREAT: / greyt / adj. /:
Not only has this word been squeezed of all meaning, all three definitions per Dictionary.com seem to be subjective. As if the word can have one meaning to the speaker and a different one to the audience.
The adjective also can’t seem to stand on its own, when used by itself, you are unsure if the ‘Great’ is good or not so good unless there is a helper adjective. The phrase ‘Great God’ can only be interpreted properly if you hear the inflection and/or have background. The Great Depression was not great for anyone, and Alexander ‘The Great’, was not great for everyone.
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If: a less subjective word was inserted into our daily vocabulary? WIBCI words meant more?… more “WIBCI Post #89”
WIBCI we has less adult anxieties?
Remember when you were a kid and you worried basically about nothing?!
When I was a kid if I lost something (which was not rare) and actually realized it whilst still out and about (which was rare), I may have experienced a momentary feeling of loss and/or feigned a glance or two about my immediate location, but I would quickly move on and play in a puddle.
Remember how mittens were connected by a string that would go inside your snowsuit sleeve, across your back and out the other sleeve? This allowed you to throw off mittens with abandon when barehands were needed, like for making really good snowballs, itching, picking, pinching, or flicking.
I wish we had these mitten-connectors for adults. I would like to shake off my gloves on impulse without having to shove them somewhere or inevitably drop one, never to be seen again. I don’t need the anxiety or the puffy pockets.
Coolest thing for me about being a kid was being a kid. I think we need more things that we know are going to be there so we can get back to being.
WIBCI politicians agreed on whom we honor?
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If: the same politicians who feel honor bound to memorialize a conservative political speaker, also found it necessary in 2020 to memorialize a woman who spent 27 years of her life on the Supreme Court fighting for the rights of ALL Americans?
WIBCI our government venerated civil servants who revered all people?… more “WIBCI Post #87”
WIBCI ‘Stars’ of the big and little screens weren’t such sellouts?
Per The Urban Dictionary: In the words of zefrank, a sellout “doesn’t have to do with actually having money, it has to do with the perception that your pursuit of popularity and potentially making money has caused you to sacrifice your core values.”
Why is it that I’m seeing more and more successful actors hawking the wares of online streaming services, internet providers, and games?
Are they starving for attention or do they need the money? Because, if people who have been in movies find it fiscally necessary to make embarrassing ads that damage their reputations as artists, what position do they think the average American finds themselves?
When ‘Actors’ have jumped the shark:
WIBCI those who have made millions found it irresponsible to promote things that waste the time and money of lay people worse off than themselves?… more “WIBCI Post #86”
WIBCI we learned from HISTORY and LITERATURE?
In 1778 Pierre Beaumarchais wrote the play, The Marriage of Figaro. At this time in France, the theatre was THE political space for critical public opinion. This play mocked and ridiculed the old aristocratic value system of France and per the lecture: Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon S1 E2 Privilege: Old Regime Society: ‘(the play) gives us ‘insight into the mood of public opinion in the 1780’s.’
King Louis XVI was shown this play by royal censors and stated: ‘This shall never be played. It would be necessary to destroy the Bastille itself before this play would be without dangerous consequences. This man mocks at everything in the Government which should be respected.’
Déjà vu …. no?
The play was banned, but underground, in private salons, performances of the play were ‘secretly popular’, and in 1784 royal censors allowed it to be publicly performed. So popular was opening night that reportedly a few people were crushed to death when the doors opened. The Marriage of Figaro was about a then debunked tradition of noblemen having the right to replace the groom in bed with new brides on their wedding nights. The servant who was constantly one-upping his master is the main character whose main concern is that his fiancé will meet this fate. The servant angered by the state of hierarchy states:
‘Because you are a great nobleman, you think you are a great genius… Nobility, fortune, rank, position! How proud they make a man feel! What have you done to deserve such advantages? Whereas I, lost among the obscure crowd, have had to deploy more knowledge, more calculation and skill merely to survive than has sufficed to rule all the provinces of Spain {France} for a century!’
-Pierre Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro
This struck a nerve in France and started the public thinking about the morality of its leaders. Oh and if you don’t know how King Louis XVI ended his reign….look it up.
WIBCI we started thinking about the morality, or lack of it, in politics? WIBCI we were talking about inequality today?… more “WIBCI Post #85”
WIBCI: Paying Taxes wasn’t considered Plebeian?
In an explanation as to why the Danish people rank among the happiest people in the world year after year:
To many, it is quite the mystery, as besides the horrific weather, Danes are also subject to some of the highest tax rates in the world.
Interestingly, there is wide support for the welfare state. The support stems from an awareness of the fact that the welfare model turns our collective wealth into well-being. We are not paying taxes, we are investing in our society. We are purchasing quality of life. The key to understanding the high levels of well-being in Denmark is the welfare model’s ability to reduce risk, uncertainty, and anxiety among its citizens and to prevent extreme unhappiness.
–Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge
I feel like we are ‘off’ with how we think about our country as a whole. We are doing away with the programs that taxes pay for, yet the only people really paying taxes are those that would benefit from the programs. And why are we so down on immigrants, if we gave them citizenship, they could work for decent wages, sneaky employees would be forced to declare their existence and get them insurance and benefits, licenses, and money to spend/reinvest in the community. And you know one thing a newly made citizen is most certainly going to do?……………………
Pay taxes.… more “WIBCI Post #84”
WIBCI: Justice were more justifiable?
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If there were more satisfactory justice per the rich and powerful who get wrist slaps for obliterating lives? You know the Diddi’s, Dr. Huxtabulls, and Harvy BeerSteins of the world? Per Diddi a handful of months in resort prison seems a bit unjust, no? Dr. Huxtabullshit has been a free man since 2021! He is sitting on his couch getting royalty checks, cause his show airs EVERY DAY?! People should have listened to Courtney Love in 2005 but instead careers and money have proven way more important in show-business/Hollywood/the world than the dozens Harvey the Hutt destroyed.
Maybe we need to create a new criminal charge, one that actually considers the level of mindf@#$ing that victims suffer, will continue to suffer for the rest of their lives, and make the guilty sentencing minimums and maximums just.
The charge kinda exists (Abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of “malfeasance in office”) but I can’t find instances of guilty verdicts or examples of sentencing. So I propose a new offense/criminal act to which do-badders could be charged: Gross Abuse of Position. Under this ‘offense’, offenders could be charged if they systematically abuse others through one or more of the following:
Sentencing should be equal to the number of years it will take to un#$%^ each person and financial retribution. Just need to figure out how to create a new criminal charge…..… more “WIBCI Post #83”
WIBCI those on-line were EMPOWERED?
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If we used Catfishing techniques against the Catfishers?
According to Wikipedia, Catfishing refers to: the creation of a fictitious online persona, or fake identity, with the intent of deception, usually to mislead a victim into an online romantic relationship or to commit financial fraud, such as the pig butchering scam. Perpetrators, usually referred to as catfish, generally use fake photos and lie about their personal lives to present themselves as more attractive for financial gain, personal satisfaction, evasion of legal consequences, or to troll.
Having watched many episodes of Catfish, there seemed to be learning on the part of the ‘victims’, and little to no repercussions for the ‘perpetrators’.
But….it seems like a precaution exists in the act itself. Step one in every episode of Catfish includes running the pictures through an image search. Why is that on us to see if people are fake if the platform could do that itself? Why doesn’t the platform that is allowing for the fake profiles to exist have some skin in the game? Why not include an image search before any image is approved for upload? If the image is found to already exist somewhere else, you aren’t allowed to upload it. And why not create a page of the most catfished images so people can recognize if they are being scammed by professionals? Seems win/win no?… more “WIBCI Post #82”
WIBCI we exhibited more SOLIDARITY as a populace?:
Wikipedia defines Solidarity or Solidarism as: an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes. True solidarity means moving beyond individual identities and single-issue politics. Still, solidarity does not reject individuals and sees individuals as the basis of society. It refers to the ties in a society that bind people together as one.
Wouldn’t It Be Cool if all journalists walked out when the AP could no longer report from the White House? WIBCI other Higher Education institutions backed Harvard when Harvard was sued? WIBCI States banded together when support for its residents was taken away.
We are stronger together.… more “WIBCI Post #81”
WIBCI we had roasts instead of debates before elections?
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If when choosing between candidates, you could base it on how well they performed in, reacted to, and came off in their own roast?
Think about it:
To me, that information is of more valuable than canned campaign promises and mud-slinging.
Pick someone in government, alive or dead, and imagine how they would perform/react in their own televised roast.
Gandhi and Honest Abe would slay…..Hitler, not so much.
On 10/1 all Federal funding will end for Public Broadcasting.
We are better because of PBS.
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If our government thought so?
Maybe millions of people with little wallets and/or hundreds of people with big wallets will pick up the slack, but it would be cooler if we didn’t have to.… more “WIBCI Post #79”
