Even more self-righteousness wisdom for you to step up to, get on your knees for, and suck on. Hard.

I used to be the kind of guy who basically liked people, who was a “people person”, and I couldn't imagine anyone being as jaded about humanity as some seemed to be. But several years on, I am convinced that most people are spineless, amoral, pleasure-seeking shitheads. Oh, they didn't get any worse from the time I thought most of humanity was worth a shit, I just finally got to the age where I had to admit to myself that from what I had seen, those who I used to think were jaded were actually right. Many people are good, but most, even though they may think they're good, are really just petty, pretentious shitheads at the end of the day who wouldn't bother getting up off the couch to piss on their own mothers if she was on fire. They're animals, ruled by their stupid, misleading, volatile, kneejerk, fear-driven, emotions and impulses rather than their actual fucking BRAINS, like me.

A perfect example: at about 3 every afternoon where I live there are at least ten wetback breeders hanging out at the driveway to my apartment complex waiting for little Jose or Maria to get off the school bus, standing there nervously as though, if they weren't there to walk them all of less than 100 feet to their front door, they're going to be grabbed and kidnapped. Wanna know something? Violent crime is at a FIFTY-YEAR low. Let me put that in other words: Remember when Leave it to Beaver was on TV? Violent crime, the kind where people end up getting hurt.....? Is as low now as it was then. And for all intents and purposes, non-familial kidnappings essentially never happen. In the seventies when I was just five years old, I was allowed to walk to my friend's house well down the street and we'd go to the school playground and play by ourselves, no adult supervision, for hours. My parents were in no way cavalier about my safety.....they just weren't fucking PARANOID about it because they didn't need to be. No one ever fucked with my friends and I when we took off to play by ourselves, no adults watching. Ever. Tomorrow I could stand out by any bus stop in America, surrounded by the usual huddled cadre of paranoid, edgy parents, the kind whose kids aren't even allowed to play in the fucking back yard by themselves, and lecture them, quoting accurate FBI statistics, about about how it's safer to leave your kids unattended now than it was when their own fucking parents were children, and that, in light of this knowledge, it's perfectly safe for them to go back to bed after they've fed little Pedro or Johnny or Maria or whoever and go back to sleep. Wanna know how may of them will NOT be out there the next day watching their kids to make sure they get on the bus without the boogieman getting them? Not a single......fucking.........one. So let me reiterate: The vast majority of humans are reactionary beings who are driven by their sense of fear and “live” their so-called lives as slaves to their distorted, inaccurate perceptions of the world.

Wanna know what make me and the precious few like me so different and so much better? Easy: Here's me as a parent, if, that is, I were a parent. I'm out there at the bus stop waiting there with my little Johnny one morning. He gets on the bus when it pulls up, I then go back into the house. I see on the news that, statistically speaking, it's safer to leave your kids to do their thing out in public than it has been since anyone currently alive can remember. My fears about little Johnny getting his ass kidnapped and held for ransom by Osama Bin Laden are completely out of bounds and irrational, according to those statistics. But here's where myself and the rest of the DRONES differ: my mind is changed, and ruled by things called, well, facts. Fact reveal to us what is true and actual in this world. See, they used to think that drinking the crushed ashes of a brown puppy would cure an earache by driving the demons out of one's ear. We no longer think that because, well, we finally realized that that never really worked, and, well, the real reason one's ear hurts when they get an earache is that there are bacteria which are infecting the pus trapped behind one's eardrum. So now we treat earaches in a much more effective way, usually with antibiotics. A superstition of the past was let go because we decided to persue a path to curing an earache based on facts. But first we had to give up the idea that it was a demon in your fucking head that was causing earaches. If we hadn't done that first, then what would have happened to the guy who first showed up and said “Hey, I have a better way to cure earaches, and it has nothing to do with driving out demons, which do not even exist!” would be that the Catholic “church” would have burned him at the stake for heresy, just as they wanted to do with a chap named Galileo, who came up with some utter nonsense about how the earth rotated around the sun! What a silly idea! Everyone knows that the sun rotates around the earth and that the earth is flat! Never mind that Galileo fucking invented calculus to prove his theory correct. That Galileo, what a character, what a crazy man with that long beard of his! Just like that Nightowl character, saying how we can actually leave our kids alone to play and develop freely as actual people without us hovering over them every second of the day. What a nut!

So you see, you can let your actions be based on either facts, like an actual thinking human being, or you can be a useless eater like those wastes of oxygen and their drooling, milquetoast, soft-headed, mouth-breathing, asthma-prone, pudgy kids who they stand with at the bus stop with. Wanna make sure your kid is really safe? Then make sure the kids your kid plays with are better looking than them, that way they'll get molested instead of yours.

I'm really not sure how your first paragraph has anything to do with the rest of your post. You talk about people be "jaded" and that people are "spineless, pleasure seeking shitheads". And then you say that "many people are good" but then go on to say that most "wouldn't bother getting up off the couch to piss on their own mothers if she was on fire".

Then in paragraph two you start talking about how people are scared to leave their children alone, and that they're stupid to think that way because violent crime is at a 50 year low...which btw, you're wrong about.

How on earth does that make them bad people? It maybe makes them paranoid, but I certainly wouldn't call paranoia a trait of being a "shithead"

I won't even mention how calling people "wetback breeders" may make you a shithead in the eyes of some people.

So, I've been drinking all those puppy ashes for nothing?

I'm just going to ignore the racial epithet, since I don't think I really need to point out how its use seems to undermine much of your point, to the extent there is one.

As to the merits of what you've posted, I don't think you come close to making a valid point at any stage of your rant. First of all, as Sugarpie has pointed out, the 50 year low piece doesn't appear to be accurate. Second of all, even if it were, you go to great lengths at pointing out all the "shitheads" who are protective of their children. I certainly think that parents being protective of their children would ward off potential attackers. It seems utterly absurd to me to treat those two items as being entirely unrelated. But hey, that's just me using my brains. The way I see it, either the crime rate hasn't dropped, meaning these parents aren't so ridiculous in being concerned. Or it has dropped, in which case you have to consider if there is a causational (or at least correlational) impact.

I don't know how old you are or where you grew up. But my guess is that comparing your childhood to your current experience is like apples to oranges. I spent a significant amount of time in multiple places growing up, in the states and in other countries, but primarily in places with smaller populations. And yes, I was generally safe. Now I'm a grown up and a live in a larger metro area that is considered on the safer side on a global scale. And you wouldn't want your small children out on their own in many parts of where I live. You're not being an overprotective parent to watch your children - you're being a good parent.

Not to mention, if I were a "wetback" living next to someone who appears to have some issues with people of Hispanic origin, I'd be a bit more wary as well. Where I've lived in the states, it's been in primarily white areas not in the deep south and racial tension has always existed and much of the violent crime has been racially motivated. At some point, kids have to learn to be on their own and handle themselves in a progressively more independent manner. But I'm guessing that "little Jose" and "little Maria" are small enough so they could still use some parental supervision in most situations.

And, like Sugarpie, I'm confused as to how (even assuming you're completely correct in that these parents are being overprotective) being an overprotective parent makes someone a "shithead" who "wouldn't bother getting up off the couch to piss on their own mothers if she was on fire." Nor do I see how these actions are driven by "stupid, misleading, volatile, kneejerk, fear-driven, emotions and impulses." If anything, the change in behavior seems to be driven by a more gradual change in since the "Leave it to Beaver" time. You could probably more accurately say that a kneejerk, fear-driven reaction would be people thinking that everyone everywhere is going to be blown up by terrorists since the Boston bombers incident. But meeting your children off the bus? Come on.

This is one of the more unintelligible bloggings I have seen in a while. Please, get off your soapbox and keep this stuff to yourself, buddy. Everyone has their way of living their lives, so I don't know what makes you think you're better than anyone else.

Just my opinion.

Couple of things......

What's a 'wetback'?

Also, I'm in the unique-ish position of living in the house next door to the house I grew up in, in a suburb of a major city in England. I know the area I live in, I know most of the people around here and have done for years. My kids play on the exact same street I did as a child. However I believe I am more protective of my kids than my parents were, not because I'm a 'shithead', but I believe the world, and people, have become more twisted. There has always been weirdos in the world, however now it seems there's more, or more being caught. I just think me being a tad more cautious than my mother was isn't a bad thing, it's just natural to want to keep your own children safe, which I won't apologise for, and couldn't give a shit what anyone thinks about that.

You said 'So you see, you can let your actions be based on either facts, like an actual thinking human being', so I will. It's a fact that growing up, I NEVER heard of any kidnappings, attempted or otherwise, in my local area. Over the last, say, 5 years, I myself have heard of at least 3 attempted kidnappings of preteen girls on their way to school, ON THEIR OWN. As you said rightly, humans are reactionary beings, and the reaction to that was NO child ever went to school in that area on their own, on police and school advice.

In summary, I'm all for a common sense approach with most things, but when it comes to my kids, I'll do what every other sane parent should do, and take care of my kids.

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Originally posted by Paddy!

What's a 'wetback'?

It's a derogatory term for a Mexican immigrant in the United States. "Their backs are wet from crossing the Rio Grande river". Similar to calling a black person the N-word. Most people that use the term are ignorant and pretty much refer to anybody from a Spanish speaking country as a "wet back".

Ah. Gotya!

Don't get many Mexicans in my part of the world!

Surely by using this blatantly derogatory term, nightowl undervalues any seemingly valid point that may of been in the OP.

I recently read a biography on Genghis Khan.

It just might be safer today than it was back then.