It’s back to the Boneyard today as I rid myself of all this mind-pressure, thoughts that are filling up my brain with nowhere to go, except here where irreverent feelings can be released.
First up is the increasing match-up in college football of weaklings with supermen. It’s getting disgusting.
Today, (Saturday, Sept. 21, the first day of the fall season) and already we have these results on college gridirons – Washington 56, Idaho State 0 (and it could have been much, much worst), Baylor is leading Louisiana-Monroe 56-7 early in the third quarter, Louisville beat Florida International 72-0 and Ohio State clubbed Florida A&M 76-0, and the Buckeyes played without their regular quarterback, Braxton Miller.
I understand that the Idaho State’s of the world pick up a large chunk of money they otherwise wouldn’t by coming to Seattle to get demolished, and Husky coach Steve Sarkisian gets to liberally play his second and third unit guys, which in the long run helps the program, but it just doesn’t seem right.
Baylor is now ahead 63-7.
I watched the Idaho State-Husky game and it turned ugly pretty quickly. When it grew to 42-0 at halftime, Sarkisian had already pulled off his Dawgs. I’m not sure if I’m a Husky Hunter or Tyee member that I would enjoy this. I’ve been in competition that was one-sided and I never enjoyed being the one who was much better. It took the fun out of the whole thing. I would rather be the underdog and give my all and lose than to be bored to death while winning easily.
And I don’t think you get better when you play against somebody that is not on the same planet as you are. You get better by playing teams that are as good as you are or better. So I fear for the Huskies next Saturday when they face a good Arizona team in their Pac-12 opener.
I can’t believe the Republicans are so brazen to slash the food stamp program by $40 billion while increasing subsidies to farmers, which in effect would make an increasingly corporate agriculture program in this county wealthier while kicking the poor to the curb.
Why can’t reasonable people see that this is wrong? Aren’t we here on his Earth to help each other? If somebody is in need, we need to help, right?
Apparently the Republicans haven’t gotten that message. And I find it disheartening to know they haven’t. While politicians on both sides of the aisle continue to build wealth through their elected offices, and get all kinds of bennies for holding their offices, some of them continue to strip the poor and the middle class from the same access to wealth they have.
Doesn’t seen right to me.
Some day the poor and middle class is going to rise up against them. And that won’t be pretty.
Baylor is now ahead 70-7.
That brings me to the thought that we are a product of our environment, and the conditions we are born into. I have a belief that we pick our parents and those conditions before we are born, but that is a story for another time.
My point is that we become comfortable with who we are, no matter how poor the conditions or our youth, or how poorly our parents raise us, and it becomes extremely difficult to break away from that as we become adults.
If my father is a blue-collar guy who works in the shipyard, or is a single parent, or is abusive, or a drunk, then it’s probable i will follow the same path. We are who we are conditioned to be.
I had a childhood friend whose father was a drunk, a womanizer, and very abusive. He would take his fists to my friend just about every day, no matter how much my friend tried to please his dad.
My friend wound up just like his dad. And that is because that is all he knew. He became comfortable with it. If his dad came home drunk and didn’t beat him, he would think something was wrong.
As I have thought about this over the past 30 or so years, I began to realize our society is divided into different layers, and no matter what layer we find ourselves it becomes difficult to escape from it into a higher layer. It is easier to slip down a layer than it is to go up a layer.
For example if I am born to very wealthy parents, it is highly likely that I will have advantages much of the rest of my age group will not have. I will probably go to the best schools, be waited on by hired servants and develop an entitlement attitude that others will not.
You could call it the Milt Romney complex: I’m entitled to my riches and you are not.
If I am born to parents into a dysfunctional family that is very poor, that is what I will become comfortable with as I age into an adult. I’m entitled to be poor and entitled to all the handouts society will give me.
When our grown daughter was very young she was friends with another girl whose mother lived on welfare, and was glad to do so. My daughter’s friend was comfortable with that life and as she aged to an adult she also lived on welfare, and was glad to do so.
I don’t think you break those comfort zones, no matter what layer we fall into. The Republicans believe you take out all the safety nets our government provides, and the people who depend on those nets will go to work. I don’t think so. We are who we are. We become comfortable in our rut, no matter if we are rich or poor, and it is extremely difficult to force us out of that comfort.
There are exceptions, of course. But they are rare. My family is blue-collar, and most of us have done well, but not too well. We are comfortable being blue-collar and if somebody gave one of my brothers millions of dollars, I think they would definitely be faced with getting out of their comfort zone, and I don’t believe they would leave it.
They are who they are, and are comfortable being who they are.
Baylor has backed off with nine minuets left, but still lead 70-7.
The good thing, in my view, is that we are all guided by a spiritual journey that destines us to be who we are, if we follow that journey. Because we have free will, some of us will not follow it. But those of us who do will become better souls and be better prepared when we cross over back to the spiritual side.
I serious doubt when we get there, to the other side, that sides will chosen up that are so lopsided as they are now in college football in non-conference games. I don’t think you will see many 70-7 Baylor-like scores over there.
Be well pal.
Be careful out there.
Have a great day.
You are loved.