Thread: Just Correct: Me, plain and simple

This is starting to be a very interesting day, to say the least, but as I am taking each day as it having something in it to learn from, here is today's thought. Most people go throughout the day in dire need of a reality check, plain and simple. It really is mind-boggling how many people think that some things don't or never apply to them, yet the reverse is opposite. It doesn't help that the generation ahead of me, as well as the generation behind me have me and those of mine sandwiched between them like the intelligent, common sense rich cream filling between the Oreo cookies of Enlightened Imbeciles of the 1960s and 1970s and the Educated Idiots of the mid- 1980s through the 1990s. I deal with people who feel entitled all the time. I see it in the faces of people who think that if they can put five sentences that make reasonable sounding thought together they should be published writers, and that is not true. Many times, the public shouldn't get what they want, especially when that public excuses disturbed behavior masquerading as liberated thinking or freedom of choice. Sorry, but that is just not true. I am not scared to say it, but responsibility is very scarce in the entertainment world, especially in the publishing field. I am not saying I know everything, but I know lack of responsibility when it is there. But that is a dirty word nowadays, which is hidden by calling someone biased, bigoted, or intolerant. No, it is not. That is one of the reasons why the criticism from some people on bigger issues like religion, gender differences, the Constitution, and the like are met with fierce attacks and not understanding. Most of those who criticize or attack things in those areas, I have come to see, do so out of their own drive to, on some level, get out of taking responsibility. Avoiding responsibility and consequences is the national hobby of many, and getting paid for it is big business. A loud mouth comedienne who says politically and socially charged things, but thought she would die before she every had to face dealing with her words and surprised when she didn't drop dead on time ... a singer in a musical genre not only badmouthing her own country but the very genre of music she was making a living at getting surprised at how militantly she was swiftly vilified and told to shut up and sing... a mother who murdered her own child, getting away with it, but still facing the wrath of justice and hiding out... an elected official barely winning office and then having to face the fact that he will have to produce real results and not expect spin to keep him from being seen as the worst ever so far... All of those happened in my lifetime, and more. It just finally hit me today, as I finished cleaning up the mess the former employee left, that there is a reason why things are the way they are. There is an expectation of balance, and no one wants balance. That is the basis of human nature without something there to help steer it. Like a ship without a sail, helm, or rudder, most people go through the waters of life thinking that floating works, but it doesn't. I had to learn that lesson, and no, not learning that is a problem and comes back to bite on the ass of all involved including the person who didn't learn that life is about responsibility. People want a fair life, but fair would mean picking and choosing what we learn or have to deal with, and life is not like that. It just isn't for anyone. There are more people on here and boards like it who get that than I deal with out in the supposed real world. Sad.. but then it is starting to become very expected.