Irrational Focus

I found the following Toronto Star article very depressing: http://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/article/793087--testing-drivers-on-roads-less-travelled but, not just because of the usual story about the incompetence that we are constantly greeted with by our Ontario institutions. Any one whose has spent time in Toronto knows that we are surrounded by a vast array of bumbling bureaucrats. That they somehow manage to take the simplest things and turn them into laughable jokes, with ease. You'd be laughing if you were so busy getting frustrated with it all. Ontario specializes in having our employees turn off their brains. In that way, we get a large number of perfect automatons, able to quickly and efficiently screw up any task, large or small. More optimally, they do it while somehow managing to blame it all on upper management. It's a gift. No doubt our artificially intelligent droids are happily entrenched in their own mindless misery. We're go...

Most people begrudge learning. They fight it, all the way from kindergarten right up to high-school. If they're destined for a higher education, they take the fight with them to their new institutions. Fear, frustration and fatigue: learning to most people is to be tolerated -- barely -- but avoided whenever possible. There are moments with brief openings, possible opportunities, but beyond that is a high wall setup to protect oneself from outside forces. Outside information. Later in life, long after the learning has ceased and the career has stagnated, what passes for debate is more often people just trying to validate what they know. They aren't open, they aren't interested, they aren't flexible. They aren't discussing. Instead they've locked themselves into their small subset of what they believe is the truth, and they'll just keep digging in farther. Most people out of school don't want to learn new stuff. Perhaps, they don'...

Selfish, greedy, cheap,  rude, irritable, indifference, slimy, smarmy, arrogant, jerk, dirt-bag, creep, sneak, hostile, nasty, angry, mean, hateful, jealous, vengeful, cruel, heartless, soulless, merciless, liar, thief, murderer, brutal, killer, destroyer, sadistic, tyrannical, and depraved. Without them, who'd be left?