QQ : NUMBER FORTY FOUR - OCTOBER 6, 2015
THE
MORAL QUOTIENT
Who
holds the moral high ground?
There
are a multitude of claimants including the Pope, the Ayatollah, ISIS,
Mike Huckabee and Roger Waters.
Speaking
to God and getting an answer could be a symptom of delusional
thinking.
Getting
the answer on a golden tablet or a scroll could be the result of
ingesting too many drugs, or it could be a true miracle. Or the
mortal
conversant
could
just be a clinical narcissist.
I’m
not currently getting a clear response from God on this question.
Her internet may be down. Reception is not good in Missouri.
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1: AMERICA
“Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the Government for a re-dress of
grievances”.
This
thing is so full of holes it is a sieve. It is badly written and
confuses "rights" with admonitions to lawmakers. No
wonder the SCOTUS is confused.
Scientology
declares itself a religion and reaps billions in tax benefits.
The
right to peaceably assemble is contra-indicated by the militarizing
of local police. Courts
are accessible, but generally only to the wealthy. Same with
justice.
In addition, "corporations" are now "people",
protected by that disastrously written paragraph.
I
hereby establish The Church of QAPEK. Contributions are welcome.
I
give the first amendment a 1/10 on the MORALITY HYPOCRISY SCALE.
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2:
THE (RAW)
IRAN DEAL
The
Republican Majority, AIPAC and a number of Jewish Federations suggest
we should reject the deal on "moral grounds".
The
suggestion is that the entity known as IRAN is inherently evil and
inherently immoral, in totality, for all eternity.
Reflecting
on her experience in Auschwitz, my mother suggested to me that there
were three levels of evil in order:
#3
most
evil were
the German SS
#2
most
evil were
the Ukrainian guards
#1
and by far the worst were the Jewish Kapos who made life and death
decisions based on their own self-interest and survival.
There
is no such thing as inherent, total evil.
I
give conservatives' rejection of the Iran deal a 2/10 in MORAL HYPOCRISY.
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3:
GOOGLE ......"You can make money without doing evil".
Google
survives on "content" and the distorted concept of the
"democracy of the internet". Google
does not pay for the content that allows it to survive. Google is a
thief of the highest order.
I
give Google a 3/10 on the MORAL HYPOCRISY SCALE.
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4:.
FREUD AND SCHADENFREUDE
We
have slaughter in Syria, ethnic cleansing in Africa, starvation in
Darfur, the greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War, child
poverty in the richest country in the history of the world and the
subjugation and incarceration of millions of African-Americans in the
US Prison-Industrial-Complex.
What
do the activists both left and right focus on? What do we
prioritize? On what basis are we prepared to shut down government?
It's
the politics of sex.
From
the Supreme Leader to the US Congress. From the Pope to a small town
clerk.
They
all want to get into our pants as their top priority.
Leave
sex to the sexual. Get married already, I really don't care. I'll be
wearing my gownless evening strap.
Government
stay out of the womb and just for the hell of it, give a Saudi
housewife her driver's licence and let her out of the tent.
Beyond
that the Caitlin Jenner thing makes me want to barf. WTF. Does his
constant presence in my face reflect the true meaning of the first
amendment?
He
has a penis last time I checked. (Not personally).
At
the risk of committing the ultimate, politically-incorrect faux pas,
may I suggest that there may be larger, more important issues.
I
give this noisy, Freudian agenda a MORAL QUOTIENT of 4/10
in hypocrisy.
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5:.
THE EXPECTATION AND REQUIREMENT THAT OUR ARTISTIC ICONS BE "GOOD".
I
have no idea if Johann Sebastian Bach was a good man. He had two
wives and bore 20 children. We can surmise that he was busy. We
cannot judge his goodness.
He
created perhaps the greatest musical beauty in the history of man.
How shall we judge him in historical retrospect?
Who
was Shakespeare? Was there such a person? Was he good?
Pablo
Picasso was a prick who treated women as disposable possessions.
He
was a fabulous painter who changed our perception of visual art for
all eternity.
He
could be regarded as a bad man. How shall we judge his art?
I
give our moral expectations regarding our artistic icons a 5/10
in MORAL HYPOCRISY.
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6: HIP-HOP
AS A CULTURE
What
can one say about Kanye West, Dr Dre, other 'rap physicians', Biggie
Small, M&M and Drake that hasn't already been said.
The
tradition of poetry spoken to rhythm and music is long established.
That is not the problem. Perhaps the problem is the wacky first
amendment thing.
“Bitches
ain’t sh*t but hoes and tricks / Lick on these nuts and suck the
d*ck.” – Snoop Dogg
“Once
again I gotta punch a bitch in her sh*t / I’m icy bitch, don’t
look at my wrist / Because if you do, I might blind you bitch.” –
Jasper Dolphin of Odd Future
“I
know she like chocolate men / She got more n*ggas off than Cochran.”
– Kanye West
“You
ain’t no better because you don’t be f*cking rappers / You only
f*ck with actors / You’re still getting f*cked backwards” – Jay
“Slut,
you think I won’t choke no whore / Til the vocal cords don’t work
in her throat no
“You
ain’t gonna let me f*ck you and I feel you / But you gone suck my
d*ck, or I’ll kill you.” – Chief Keef
If
art is a reflection of the zeitgeist, then the zeitgeist is in very,
very, very poor shape.
Hiphop
'culture'
gets
a 6/10
on my MORAL HYPOCRISY SCALE.
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7: SAUDI
ARABIA and THE EMIRATES
In
a previous paragraph, I suggested that there is no such thing as
inherent, absolute evil. I would now like to amend that statement.
Evil
exists. It is Saudi Arabia. If ever there was an evil empire, then
this has got to be it... closely followed by the Emirates.
Apparently, the pronouncements of the Saudi Potentate is the
expression of God's will.
Slave
labor, misogynist, corrupt, criminal, feudal, fundamentally evil in
all aspects.
Cut
off my hand to spite my face.
A
7/10
on the MORALITY QUOTIENT.
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8:
MONSANTO
Patents
on seeds. Really? They
have a copyright on my carrot? A
patent on my potato? A claim on my cabbage?
The
absolute peak of evil, the end of the world as we know it.
You
own the copyright of seeds?
State
of the art bullshit.
Monsanto
gets an
8/10
on the MORALITY SCALE.
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9: EVANGELISM
There
are many "isms", but the 'evangel' wins first prize
for moral hypocrisy.
The
word has a benign, Greek root referring to "good news".
If only that were so.
A
more common usage is related to a presentation of the "gospel"
as an unquestionable truth.
That
is when evangelism, as a presentation of unquestionable truth, the
divine truth as expressed by the Ayatollahs of Islam of any variety,
Mike Huckabee, and Kim Jong-Il reach a peak of moral insanity.
I'm
reminded of the image of Henry Kissinger, kneeling down to pray with
Richard Nixon one particularly boozy evening in the Oval Office. I
think Bubba Clinton made a much better use of that space...if
somewhat less evangelical.
A
9/10
in MORAL OUTRAGE.
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10:
THE GLOBAL WARMING 'DEBATE'
Who
are some of the largest, per-capita polluters in the world?
“Benign”
Australia and Canada.
According
to the "I-am-not-a-scientist" experts, the polar
bears are just fine; California, not unlike adolescents,
is going through a ‘phase’; and BP is a person.
The
Global Warming deniers get a 10/10
on the MORAL HYPOCRISY SCALE.
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11: ALGORITHMS
AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The
machines have taken over. Drones, drone on
as
programmed assassins
based
on computer game technology, the Googles select our participation
grid, the TV reflects algorithmic choices at us and we are followed,
pursued, categorized, and spied on from birth through death and
beyond.
Freedom’s
just another word for everything left to lose.
It's
1984 all over again.
It's
beyond an
11/10
in MORAL DEGRADATION. God is dead. The Algorithms have taken her
place. A.I.
has nailed us to a cross.
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12: GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE
Really?
