Originally posted on my old blog September 22nd 2016.

Why are people so angry these days? If it isn’t someone shouting abuse in the street at people walking past, or toothless living stereotypes on daytime TV shows trying to decide who slept with who, without giving any of the salacious details.

If not that, then it is people on the internet shouting at each with arguments that are as binary as the code that carries them. If you don’t agree with “x”, then you are clearly worse than Hitler.

Where “x” is a point that any simpleton can see is idiotic and barely thought through. With more holes in the logic than a skimpy piece of lingerie, and less likely to hold up to a rigorous seeing to.

Politicians are now using this anger and turning in on itself, to promote themselves. When generally they are the reason that people were bloody angry in the first place.

“Let’s use some of that hate and bile and corral it into something productive”, seems to be the political mantra. The issue is that they are using the hate and bile to promote themselves and their hate-filled agenda. Which is not really helping. We should probably ignore such a person, and except from the few million idiots, that is what we duly do.

Apart from the fact that we don’t, do we? We have to look, to see what all the fuss is about. It is like picking off a scab. Logically we know that there is no benefit to doing it, but we do it anyway. An hour later, our misanthropy at new heights we walk away from the shallow end of the gene pool wondering why the veruca pool hurt our scab so much. Comfortable at least in the knowledge that we are better than that, smugness levels refilled, and we are ready for a fancy coffee made by a barista who asks your name and whose employer pays less tax than they do.

Donald Trump relies on that, he knows that his opponents and detractors hang on his words more than his fans do. In fact, some of his fans have stated that they have absolutely no idea what the things he says means, but they like the way that he says them.

You cannot fight that level of stupidity with logic, all that happens is that they feel like they have won and you have a stress headache. Which ends in you being cranky all day, and making poor decisions. Like going to Ikea on a weekend, or watching a Channel 5 documentary.

Being stupid is a little like being dead, you are the only one who doesn’t know.

People on the internet are angry at all sorts of things it seems, and gradually seem to be taking any fun out of anything. I am all for being politically correct, I don’t want to upset anyone unnecessarily, but you know what? You cannot make a joke without upsetting someone, that is just the way of things.

Why did the chicken cross the road? MAYBE THE CHICKEN HAD MOBILITY ISSUES, HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THAT ?!!???

No, as it is an entirely fictitious chicken, that is a conceit to be used as a part of the construct of this joke. Thanks for stuffing it up though.

I am not, for a second saying that making obscene and abusive jokes is, could or should be acceptable, but everything has to be taken in context. The tabloid press and the internet have seen fit to make people unable to perceive the bigger picture.

There are arguments for jokes that go too far, if they open up a wider debate for example.

I was taught at school to debate, and apart from as a setup for a “let’s have a mass debate” gag the meaning of the word is seemingly being lost. Somewhere the words “fact” and “opinion” got given the same meaning, and that is wrong.

Rolling twenty four news has it’s foot in the door and is the fraudulent salesperson that is responsible for this.

“And now we are talking about the International Space Station, and to help us we have Professor Lynda Smith and in the interest of balance we have Gordon Witherspoon who believes that space does not exist and that the sky is in fact painted on a blue carpet that is held up on high poles.”

No! Just because there are people out there that have these stupid opinions it does not mean that what they think is of equal importance to someone with actual, quantifiable, facts and knowledge.

Just because the Theory of Evolution has the word “theory” in it, that does not mean it actually is a theory. There are many many provable facts involved in it, supported by many of the best scientists the world over. If you disagree with this point, then that is nice for you, and your made up sky wizard, but keep it to yourself.

Do you see? it’s actually quite easy isn’t it? I am not trying to force my ideas and thoughts on to you. Do not agree with me? That’s fine, thank you for your time, now move on.

Take a deep breath, congratulations you have reached human being level 2. Now you can treat yourself to the smugness of that barista coffee.

What? Sorry? They don’t pay any tax? Argh, now I am angry all over again. That is justifiable and understandable anger. Want to be angry? How about this one for starters.

The now American owned Cadbury’s probably paid less in corporation tax in the financial year 2014 – 2015 than you paid in income tax.

Furious? You should be, go be angry about that and imagine how much of a hole in the NHS spending that would have helped fill.

Then how about Vodafone, Starbucks, Google, Faceboo…

September 22nd, 2016 6:41pm