Rant 140: Causes

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

Rant 140
Causes

"Fuck ideologies, unless you can convince the followers to buy you rounds at the bar."
-The White Mouse

Some of you are infected with the tunnel vision of anarchism and other social or political ideologies that give rise to numerous causes. And every cause, no matter how much of a rehash of something older, is always followed by supporters and followers who swear up and down that it has never been tried before (in its "correctly approached" or "purely understood" way) or that it is "really" a new cause that must be supported for the good of all that lives...or some other such fuzzy buzz words.

Now don't get me wrong. Causes can be useful things when they actually deliver upon their promises and help some people somewhere. But most don't join or support causes for that sort of reason now do they? Most people join causes because they feel they have to live up to "being a good or compassionate human" so as to avoid being called a no good shit. They put their heart and soul into the cause. (Such 'pure devotion' seems to be a perennial obsession with cause supporters.) The problem is that they really haven't figured out what their "heart and soul" really wants. Another problem is that they get on their cause's bandwagon and instead of doing anything good, they start pointing their fingers at all the rest of us who don't join. "See," they say "You're just being an ignorant no good shit who cares little to nothing about this IMPORTANT ISSUE." But how the fuck would they know? Some of us do care about certain social or other issues, but we don't feel like we need to jump on anyone's bandwagon, especially if the bumper stickers that we have to buy with our hard-earned money are designed to look like the same old political slogan crap.

Besides all that, once the "cause" is properly organized and labeled, it becomes simply another marketing strategy for sponsors, and the sponsors didn't even have to waste time in research and development of the product because the cause-supporters have already done all that work for free. The suckers. Money is the god of this age and there is no escape from this cult, no matter what you think. (Refer to Rant #40: The One True God. I am still undecided as to whether or not this is a good or bad thing. Especially since money is of immense benefit to people like me. I wasn't raised in no middle class 'feeling-guilty-about-having-comforts-so-let's-give-them-up' attitude. I for one, think some comforts are good. So long as I choose them for myself. I know some of you will call me a heretic for this, but I think having money is a good thing.)

You can say to me "You asshole. I really do care about humanity/the whales/the war/the right to bear prairie squid/etc." Oh yeah? How come you treat everyone around you like a piece of shit? Don't think I didn't see you slap around that old man the other day because he wouldn't contribute any of his money to your "save-the-hoors" campaign. I have seen crowds of socialist party members walk on by homeless people with the shakes trying to hold their hand out and collect whatever pittance passersby would give them. Solidarity my ass. Once, when I stopped to give one street dude a couple dollars and told him where the cheapest local store was to get drinks from, some socialist came up to me afterwards and said "That isn't going to help the situation any. He's just going to use the money to get drunk." I responded with "Oh yeah? And sitting around studying boring ass writings by ideologically pure thinkers week after week in your leftist social club is going to help the situation? The man clearly needed a drink. I helped him in his goal. Do you even know what 'poor' is like?" The socialist walked on to rejoin his friends and they all left me there with looks of disdain on their face. I ran into that crowd again later on in a local pub. There they were ripping it up and getting drunk, just like everyone else. A sense of justice came over me then and there. "The same goal, I see," I said loudly to no one in particular as I passed them at their table.

You can say that I am 'politically immature' or whatever label you have. But chances are I have read and reread every fucking political writer you are about to quote to back up your crock of crap. It's called being informed. Just as I have read up on just about every religious idea so as to properly convolute and confuse any evangelist's argument as to why I should join their bandwagon cult, I have done the same with the various political tunnel visions.

If you feel you must join up with some group of Cause Supporters, just remember why you are doing so. Is it just because you get to wave a flag and hold up signs at the next demonstration to prove how much of a dedicated and caring person you are? No? Bullshit.

Find a life to live first before you try to shove any of your causes down other people's throats. And just remember this: Do you really want someone like me to join your group or your cause anyway? Think about that for a minute. All Hail Discordia!

September 30th, 2005

-Irreverend Hugh, KSC
(The only thing worse than the White Mouse drinking up all the tequila around here, is the fact that he starts to ramble and rant for hours. Doesn't alcohol ever pass him out?)

[B_M_W]

Once, when I stopped to give one street dude a couple dollars and told him where the cheapest local store was to get drinks from, some socialist came up to me afterwards and said "That isn't going to help the situation any. He's just going to use the money to get drunk." I responded with "Oh yeah? And sitting around studying boring ass writings by ideologically pure thinkers week after week in your leftist social club is going to help the situation? The man clearly needed a drink. I helped him in his goal. Do you even know what 'poor' is like?" The socialist walked on to rejoin his friends and they all left me there with looks of disdain on their face. I ran into that crowd again later on in a local pub. There they were ripping it up and getting drunk, just like everyone else. A sense of justice came over me then and there. "The same goal, I see," I said loudly to no one in particular as I passed them at their table.

This part = t3h win.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Once, when I stopped to give one street dude a couple dollars and told him where the cheapest local store was to get drinks from, some socialist came up to me afterwards and said "That isn't going to help the situation any. He's just going to use the money to get drunk." I responded with "Oh yeah? And sitting around studying boring ass writings by ideologically pure thinkers week after week in your leftist social club is going to help the situation? The man clearly needed a drink. I helped him in his goal. Do you even know what 'poor' is like?" The socialist walked on to rejoin his friends and they all left me there with looks of disdain on their face. I ran into that crowd again later on in a local pub. There they were ripping it up and getting drunk, just like everyone else. A sense of justice came over me then and there. "The same goal, I see," I said loudly to no one in particular as I passed them at their table.

This part = t3h win.

The correct answer would have been to mug the stupid shit, and give his wad to the homeless dude.

[B_M_W]

This part = t3h win.

The correct answer would have been to mug the stupid shit, and give his wad to the homeless dude.

I just like the blatant hypocricy apparent in that paragraph. But your answer makes sense too.  

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

This part = t3h win.

The correct answer would have been to mug the stupid shit, and give his wad to the homeless dude.

I just like the blatant hypocricy apparent in that paragraph. But your answer makes sense too.  

Dude, he was a SOCIALIST....he didn't have enough money worth the action of mugging.