The War On Self Esteem

All over the world, in schools, offices, factories in fact, everywhere, there is a war going on.
It is a guerilla war.

The guerillas are those who rebel, occasionally, in some small way, against the lead-weight of oppressive dictation, on behalf of their own self-esteem.

These rebellions are small, such as mockery of one who is in authority, the victory passing. And on top of it all, the rulers of countries, mocked by the press that put them there, in order to suborn you.


This isn't a matter of authority alone; authority, when exercised clearly, leads to the achievement of a particular vision, with all the responsibility that that entails.

No. What we have today is an evil soup, a liquification of minds and identities, which seeks to destroy people in detail by making them believe they have authored their own destruction.

So when some bastard tries to impose his authority, not with a statement, but with your conviction, with the need to have you believe that you have chosen to accept his lead because you agree, not because you have a job to do and need clear guidelines, then you will feel yourself being gradually driven out of your own mind, with your sense of self replaced by a sense of someone else's self.

The more you wonder what they are up to, the longer they do it, and the more damage they will do, which is in fact what motivates them.

You must be passive in the extreme. Argue against them, when they feign to discuss, but accept their authority.
These people cannot match their own status, which is why they seek your sanction.

I spent years doing dumb work; I was on strike. But even my status as a dumb labourer was too much for them to take. They would pursue me in every detail to the stage that they looked ridiculous and everybody could see it.
Obviously they blamed me for that and hated me even more.

We are heading for a world where self-esteem is sniffed out, persecuted and murdered in every sense and on even the pettiest of levels. This world will exist as a place for time-served boredom, where the bastards will not wish or need to make the mistake of another Soviet Union to rebel against, but rather turn our own minds into the Gulags and imprison our perished spirits in a living death.

No smoking.
No drinking.
No real food.

Keep the spirit depressed and the mind occupied.

That's how they lock us in. For our own good.

Lumpen Agility

A few years ago, I read the books on Agile, a methodology in software development.
What it boils down to is common sense, applied more or less.
A number of tools and methods is laid out, together with rules for using them, but the one golden rule is this: you should use enough of the methods that you get the job done comfortably, and only to an appropriate level.

Rigidity is frowned on, the system is flexible.

Hence 'Agile'.

Then the idiots got to hear about this new methodology, that works wonders as long as they follow the rules.

Beats thinking any day.

And so they apply the methods with evangelical zeal, enforcing as many methods as they can, and driving talent up the wall in the mystical belief that obedience breeds success.

And so the working day is turned into a living Hell for thousands of bean-counter victims.

And I avoid any situation which comes with the buzzword 'Agile'.

Weather Indicators linux

I love Ubuntu Linux.
However, there are just three weather indicator options I can see; the standard weather indicator(which has been quietly dropped from the latest Ubuntu), which cannot add locations, then there's 'my-weather-indicator', which does nasty things to your mouse pointer and crashes, and finally 'stormcloud', which has been dropped also, and which actually demanded $2.99 to tell you the weather in Kuala Lumpur. And only Kuala Lumpur.

Word to the wise: if you developed this shit, why? Are you, like, only 7 years old and trying to con teacher? What the fuck are you on you useless wastes of neurons, blood and skin?

Oh, and all the shills trying to tell me on their websites you 'only' have to 'this' to get weather indicators 'working great', you're liars. Do you know what the word means?

America

I've just included The Daily Caller in links.

Manchester United

I am sick of seeing the unpleasant, stupid, ugly gum-chewing sack of crap known as Alex Ferguson parading in front of grown men wearing shorts and acting like teenagers, for money, so that he can steal some more glory.

He is backed by limitless cash and all the gravy train that it can buy, solely in order to grasp a few miserable consolations from the endless minutes of boredom-with-a-ball which the news channels insist on talking up every week.

All this so that idiots can have something to talk about when they should be working.

The End Of The Affair.

Earlier this week a beautiful, international bromance came to an untimely end.

Things were said, stands were taken, and relations broke down.
It's a tragedy. Lovely people, lovely family, wonderful bro, but in the end he went a different way to me, in a manner which was all too predictable.

When a nice guy can't kick out someone who is insinuating his way into the brotherhood, then it's because he's too nice.
When I shoot first and ask questions later like a character from a Gary Larson cartoon, people aren't impressed.

But maybe they aren't so nice when they blame me for everything turning to crap.
So adieu.
Stay healthy and wealthy old pal, and try to be a little wiser as we all do.