It has come to my attention that pretty much everything that I do is irrelevant.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
OK, well that seems like a statement of self-pity, and it probably is to some extent.\u00a0 It’s certainly not an earth-shattering announcement, or some divine revelation.\u00a0 It’s just a statement of fact.<\/p>\n
So, since no one is paying the least amount of attention, I am going to post anyway, just for my own sake, my general observations and experience of life.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n I have noticed that people, in general, can do everything “right”, i.e. go to school, get good grades, work very hard, join all the right groups, etc.\u00a0 In other words, all of the things we are taught growing up will make you a better person and successful.\u00a0 Yet they never come close to achieving even a little portion of wealth or success.\u00a0 It doesn’t matter how “intelligent” you are, how insightful you are, if you “conform” or submit to authority(ies), or rebel against.\u00a0 Your inventions, thoughts, writings, songs are never good enough.\u00a0 No matter if they are objectively good or not, genius and mediocrity are both subjected to the dustbin as trash.\u00a0 Yet “people” seem to come out of nowhere, having done nothing of note, ever, suddenly getting millions of dollars for a book deal, or a huge contract as a “speaker” or “influencer” or “media personality”.\u00a0 People who seem, as a general rule, to lack any sort of actual or perceived intelligence or any skills whatsoever.\u00a0 People who are making literal millions doing things that any thinking person could do, possibly much, much better, for a tenth of the wage.<\/p>\n Don’t get me wrong:\u00a0 I am hardly the hard working, intelligent, good grade getting, go getting protagonist in a story of downtrodden woe.\u00a0 Being a bit of a slacker, I have never really “worked hard”.\u00a0 Digging ditches, doing construction, and laboring at a job doesn’t count in that context since it is “hard work” for wages, rather than “working hard” to achieve a “goal”.\u00a0 Mostly not a joiner of clubs or social organizations because of being an introvert who prefers alone time with a book to partying with “friends”.\u00a0 Also rather boring, for the most part, and I enjoy that lack of controversy and conflict. So, why?<\/p>\n Why do idiots make millions, and hardworking, intelligent people make emails in a cubical for rice and beans?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It has come to my attention that pretty much everything that I do is irrelevant.\u00a0 OK, well that seems like a statement of self-pity, and it probably is to some extent.\u00a0 It’s certainly not an earth-shattering announcement, or some divine revelation.\u00a0 It’s just a statement of fact. So, since no one is paying the least … Continue reading So, Ramblings of a Weird Hermit in the Desert<\/span>
\nI would personally not be averse to someone who would pull me out of my cave in the desert, clean me up and put me in a commentator’s spot at FOX news or CNN for millions of dollars.\u00a0 I certainly wouldn’t do any worse at the job of reading lines from a teleprompter than most of the idiots we are forced to see in that position, and I am sure anyone else could do just as well.\u00a0 If anyone bothers to read this and would like to have that conversation about the “skills” or “charisma” of media personalities, it would certainly be welcome.\u00a0 Of note, some people are a general exception, such as Tucker Carlson for example.\u00a0 But where is HE now?<\/em><\/p>\n