This was inspired by the thread:
Subject: Re: What is evil?
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
anyways, I got to thinking...
heretic's list of evil things
that's kind of ironic when you think about it, isn't it? :)
Pretention, elitism, snobbery, bigotry, intolerance, blind-lemming
conformity, violence and Hammond organ hold music. Wherever they
may lurk. That's the truisms out of the way... :)
McDonalds - Ever squeezed one of those fries and watched
the oil come out? Yeeeughgrgrgghrgrh. The apple pies are made of
choko and the shakes and sundaes are 80% fat (If you don't
believe me about that, go to McDonalds and say you need to see a
list of ingredients because you're diabetic, they have to
give you the list - see for yourself!). Plus they don't clean out
the sundae machine well enough. Then they tell you that their burger
meals are a balanced and healthy!?!
Public transport - Evil, evil!! Especially in Queensland
where students don't get any concession on buses... That's right,
we northerners pay FULL FARE to ride with howling children
(why oh why did they route a bus to UQ past a primary school as
well??). If I ever murder someone it'll probably be a screaming
kid on a train. It's 50 minutes from Brisbane to Ipswich...
and I once got stuck in a carriage with a kid who mimmicked "Doors
closing, please stand clear!" and did crosswords at the top of his
voice the *whole* *way*. Ever wondered if small children
bounce? I certainly have.
Telstra - Profiteering phone company that made 1.2 BILLION
(nearly four times as much as Coles Myer) net profit last year and
has the hide to raise their charges, when the service could
be dirt cheap if they wanted it to be. They always claim this is
to improve their service, but what can you say when you're using
pulse dialling, only get a dial tone about 75% of the time
and can't get an itemised bill to find out if your extremely suspect
but HUGE phone bill is actually justified? Remember of course that
this is all for something that is a SERVICE... To cap that off,
they blow their trumpet about how wonderful they are sponsoring
the Olympic team; how *nice* of them. They should be sponsoring
HALF THE DAMN COUNTRY with the amount of money they rip us
off for.
Microsoft - "Upgraded" their operating system so
they can sell every util, program and patch ALL OVER AGAIN
by force; there is no option to stick with what you have and know
that WORKS, no more versions of windows for workgroups OR
dos. Bill Gates is a genius all right, he knows how to make MONEY.
Except of course for his wrong call about internet, MS must have
lost a shitload when they didn't get their usual monopoly. Imagine
for a moment if Netscape had that little MS logo on it...
Censorshit - Governments deciding that they know what
we want to see, hear and buy. It's not like we should have any
input on that or anything [That's right, we may be Australian but
American laws will effect the way things like internet are treated
over here. Basically, Senator Exon can kiss my obscene, lewd
and indecent ARSE!]. Governments really do fear internet, because
they can't as yet control it. Does information want to be free?
More to the point do politicians have any right to make that decision?
Internet will be regulated somehow, sometime. They regulated radio
when it got too popular, they regulate TV they regulate print and
movies. They're desperately looking for some way to control internet,
control the information and most of all - make more money out of
it.
Political Correctness - Rapidly becoming the modern NewSpeak.
(Read George Orwell's "1984", you at the back). The point has been
made and now we should back off it. I mean, so what if I - while
writing some crappy assignment at midnight - forget to say "them"
and say "he". It's not going to change the way I treat women,
it's not me trying to enforce a patriarchy, it's not me trying to
lower wages for women doing equal work. Oh well, I'll just listen
to my walkperson and try not to offend anyone.
Legal extorsion - Banks that make billions of dollars
each year but won't lower their rates even though they could.
No bank wants to help you, don't EVER believe that. No bank
will EVER do something it won't profit by. Sure, you can get charge-free
accounts while you're a student but that's only an attempt to
make you stay with that particular bank the rest of your life.
The shiny-happy world LIE - One of the greatest evils of
all, common to tv advertising and those motivational videos
they show you in high school, where everyone is happy and only has
real friends that care no matter what, where everyone has an SO
- or for variation is about to *get* a gorgeous SO. The lie that
if you're not perfectly happy, physically and mentally perfect then
you're a freak who doesn't fit into society. The lie that advertising
is depicting real life (where the hell do those people live?).
Personal Development Officers love this one.
UGLY people - I don't mean physically (though they
usually are) but people who are just ugly in every sense of the
word. The people who beg for a dollar and then try to pick a
fight if you don't give them money, the people who get in your face
with "What're you lookin' at?!" if you so much as glance
in their direction (you have to look *somewhere* when you walk for
goodness sake!), people who have 15 kids they can't afford
so they scream at them using "fuck" for every second word and belt
them constantly. Also known as SPOSs... Sub-Human Pieces of Stuff.
I get very intolerant of these people, but frankly they rarely disprove
the idea that they are a waste of space.
Stupidity - Usually seen in ugly people, this category
is the standard behavioural pattern of fuckwits. This is what
drives morons who live in Australia to wear Chicago Bulls caps and
Orlando Magic shirts. Move to America, dickheads. These are
the people who watch Baywatch, Central Park West and Hangin' With
Mr Cooper because they think it's high quality viewing. These are
the people who think that if you're different to them you're a "faggot"
and should be bashed (or yelled at as they drive past in their light-blue
Commodore). These are the people who make McDonalds millions
every day and believe everything they see on TV - the
only thing they watch (except for channel 2).
THIS is modern evil. Maybe demons are real, maybe they're
not, maybe they never were and are creations of human fear... Right
and wrong... who can judge... what is right in one place may be
wrong in another situation... there's a lot to be thought about
in Situation Ethics.
Recognise the evil of the modern day, and don't eat McDonalds!!
:)
heretic [rvl.CiA.oOze]
"Falling in love is easy, it's the crawling out that's a bitch."
