Why the World Sucks

Why does the world suck? Why does anger and cynicism seethe in the hearts and minds of so many? Why is planet earth a ticking time bomb waiting to explode in a violent uprising the likes of which we've never seen before? Why are men, women, and even children willing to tie explosives to their bodies and blow themselves up? Why is half the population on anti-depression medication or severely overweight or drowning their fear and sorrow in countless other ways?

Well to be sure one could claim it’s the million-plus innocent lives killed in the poor country of Iraq in the name of oil by the big bad brutish bullying dictator of the world currently known as “the United States of America.” That situation certainly sucks. And yes it is also the hundreds of thousands of lives recklessly and needlessly murdered everyday in a world far far away called “Darfur” in the name of oil by the equally inhumane and dictatorial government of China. That sucks too.

And yes it might also have to do with the fact that on every shiny silver can of Diet Coke the phrase “Live Positively” is scrawled elegantly down the side right next to the coca cola logo when the actual liquid inside contains a proven carcinogen called aspartame and one out of every three Americans gets cancer every year. That sucks.

One could even go deeper and examine why coca cola and thousands of other American companies are allowed to put proven carcinogens into food and beverages legally and get away with it when one third of our population is getting cancer. The politically correct term for it is “lobbying” – which is a euphemism for bribery, blackmail, extortion and other such mechanisms that drive that poor old dying bitch of a dog we drag behind us called democracy.

One could think of hundreds of reasons why the world sucks. ‘The proof is in the pudding’ as they say, and the pudding tastes like shit. The proof is all around us. But every once in a while something so hideously ugly pops out of our collective society that makes the world sucking so crystal clear that we are left with literally nothing left to say but “the world sucks.”

A moment like that occurred today. Of course it will soon be forgotten because the world sucks so badly these days that it’s easy to forget about the specifics. One is merely left with a subconscious underlying constant gnawing feeling of anxiety, dread, fear, and a general disgust about life that can best be summed by the words “the world sucks.”

The New York Times likes to send out what they call “News Alerts” to unsuspecting victims of this suck-ass world we live in now and then. How they determine what is or is not news is a mystery to most in the free world. And one would do best to try their damndest to avoid reading such things. But today revealed one of those all too frequent perfect examples of the world sucking and it came in the form of something as innocent as simply comparing and contrasting today's “news alert” with one from a few days ago, both copied and pasted below.

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 -- 12:02 PM ET
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Man Is Convicted of Stalking Uma Thurman

Jack Jordan, a 37-year-old University of Chicago graduate who ended up sleeping in his car and developing a fixation with the actress Uma Thurman, was convicted of stalking and aggravated harassment on Tuesday morning.

Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na


Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Friday, April 25, 2008 -- 9:15 AM ET
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3 Detectives in Sean Bell Shooting Found Not Guilty

Three detectives charged in the November, 2006, shooting death of Sean Bell were cleared of all charges on Friday.

Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na



So let these dark days live forever in the annals of American history. Let a man known as “Justice Arthur J. Cooperman” and his inept handling of the Sean Bell case live in infamy for all time from this moment on. Let “Justice J. Arthur Cooperman” become a catchphrase that immediately connotes “racism, corruption, and failure to uphold your oath of office” in the ears of all who hear it and all who use it from this moment forward with no further words even necessary.

And just to rub it in even deeper and really force the wound to sting that much worse, let us recall the comment made just after the verdict was announced by the man those blinded by the matrix call the city’s “Mayor” – his mentally-challenged ineptitude shines brightly enough from this statement alone to light up the entire Manhattan skyline for weeks:

“Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called for calm. “There are no winners in a trial like this,” he said. “An innocent man lost his life, a bride lost her groom, two daughters lost their father and a mother and a father lost their son.””

Talk about empty rhetoric. It is amazing how skilled some people become at moving their mouths without actually saying anything. Talk about not taking a stand for the sake of politics. Talk about total utter bullshit.

Indeed the world sucks. The stinking bullshit of injustice at this point in our history is so high that American children can no longer see over it. They just attempt to swim their little bodies through it day after miserable day.