Rock-Bottom

18 Nov 08

"Rock-Bottom," Humanity's Savior!

Most of us, during our awkward trek through this life, have taken a wrong turn, spun out of control, and ended up flat on our face, having hit " rock-bottom." Some of us slow learners have clumsily arrived at rock-bottom more than once!

"Rock-bottom" is an important place, a wonderful place, because it is not until we hit rock-bottom that many of us finally, sincerely repent, admit to ourselves that we've been going in the wrong direction, yes, finally admit that we've been stupid (and arrogantly so), swallow our cretinous pride, and begin to turn our lives around. Without rock-bottom assuredly, no-shit, being there, many of us would never learn anything! Yes, rock-bottom runs a cruel, pitiless school, but a cocksure fool will learn in no other, and most of us are fools at least some of the time!

Accordingly, anything that gets between stupidity and rock-bottom only delays bona-fide repentance, only postpones the inevitable, and ultimately makes learning all that much slower and more painful. When you're going to hit it, you need to hit it, full force, and without delay, nor cushioning, lest the lesson be lost on you, and you'll thus have to go through it all over again!

This is why "bailouts," in any form, be they public or private, are a crime against humanity! Bailouts hurt most the ones that are supposed to help, because they assure the lesson will not be learned and those "helped" are thus doomed to repeat their mistakes, ad infinitum.

All of us, for our own good, need to experience the full, logical consequences of our own foolishness, stupidity, and arrogance. Welcome to Planet Earth!

Bailouts harm everyone! They reward stupidity and punish prudence. Politicians who advocate them are sleazy con-men who care only about manufacturing an army of unproductive, dependant, perpetually adolescent losers, who are never allowed to grow up, and whom they can coerce and manipulate, purchasing their votes like so many beans.

Put another way, bailouts are designed to promote slavery, and they succeed splendidly, every time!

/John