I've been doing alot of thinking lately, and It's not good. I generally make a point of not watching or reading the news, sports news excepted, because it's just too damn depressing. I do catch the odd bit piece every now and again though, and I talk to different people all day. There is one thing I have noticed about people for along time and that is, that mostly People Suck!
These are generalisations, however I have noticed fewer and fewer exceptions to these rules recently.
Basically you either have:
Very very Wealthy people who because they are so wealthy feel they should only have to deal with people that are either very very wealthy themselves or people they pay to do things for them. Anyone else is simply an inconvenience to their very important selves and a waste of their ever so valuable time. The only mistakes these people make are hiring people that make mistakes meanig they have to deal with someone faling into the aformentioned "Anyone Else" category of whom they will treat like dirt. They don't care how things work, so long as they don't have to deal with it.
Wealthy people who think that becasue they have money they can treat other people like dirt, they are seemingly incapable of making mistakes, and if they don't work the exact way they want them to those thing are just ridiculous and must have been designed by some with significantly inferior intellectual capabilities than themselves.
The not wealthy people, named so in an effort to be PC. These people don't have much at all, but it's not their fault. Everything and everyone is against them. They spend all their money at the pub or the TAB, but it's the governments fault they can't feed their kids. Their kids normally number 3 or more, who probably get into some kind of trouble with some form of authority, which is not the parents fault, it's the TV's fault, or Grand Theft Auto's fault.
Now in the middle is your standard middle class. These are a mixed bag and financial status aside could share common characteridstics with any of the above groups. Generally though they seem to be the most reasonable group of human beings, the most in touch with human nature, and the social landscape as a whole.
As I said there are the anomolies in each group, and there are really down to earth, genuine, interesting and more implotantly Human people in all groups. People who just take life as it comes, they listen as much or more than they talk, they are reasonable. I guess what I'm trying to convey is that the number of people who display the traditionally more appealing human qualities seems to be decreasing and the number of people who display the less desirable Human Qualities is increasing dramatically. But They are too busy being self important to care.
It is now totally acceptable to expect more, of better quality, and delivered faster for significantly less.
It used to be that getting what you paid for was what was expected. Getting what you paid for was standard it could be considered good, Gettng what you paid for, meant not getting ripped off. There was a safety in knowing quality was generally linked to cost. Now you just never know. It seems that regardless how much or how little you paid for something if you don't get something for free you are being reipped off.
It's the same in everything though, products and services, are expected to be better than before and cheaper.
I mean to me it seems ludicrous that their are people in the world employed to make phone calls for people. Not even make phone calls, their job is to dial a number and when someone answers put the call through to the person who wanted the call made... I mean really. But then it also seems ludicrous to me that mothers make phone calls for their children, their 30+ year old children.
I've been ranting about this so I'm gonna stop. I will say however, people are getting dumber, more and more problems are being touted as being unsolvable, while the people who have the solutions are silenced by those who make massive profits off of those unsolvable problems. The more intelligent people don't want to have kids too early because the world is messed up, and the least most intelligent people have unearthed a recessive rabbit gene and continue to fill up trailor parks, council flats, and housing commision housing with their little rabbit gened children. Forget Global Warming, the world is fine it's us as a species that are in trouble, we will soon enter an age when finding the perfect description for what your farts smell like will be more important than well damn near anything....
Be afraid I reckon, It's not the apocolypse, It's idiocracy and it's time is nigh.
