Why must we all be robots pushed and pulled by the machines of this world? There has to be something more that we can do in this life.
He wakes up; he sips his coffee as he runs out the door this Monday morning. Always running late for work, yet he leaves at the exact same time every day. As he backs out, he fails to notice the ever so routiness of all the late to work neighbors that back out of their drive the exact same time he does. He now begins driving to work, along with his neighborhood. It takes him an hour and a half to leave his neighborhood, by this time, he is furious.
Why does everyone have to leave for work at the exact same time? Sadly enough, this is exactly how many Americans live. Although this example is a bit extreme, it is not too far fetched from what I have witnessed in my own life and neighborhood. Most people wake up, wishing they could stay home in bed that day and maybe watch a good comedian, I wake up every day, and I watch something way more entertaining, the morning flow of life itself, everyone pushing and shoving all trying to go the same place at the same time. What is it that prohibits us from realizing that if and when we take turns, things will happen much faster and as we slow down, we will arrive at our destination happy? When are we as a society going to step back and take a look at our lives and realize what we are doing to ourselves?
He is now on the freeway, the fastest way to work, (that is when traffic is not traveling at a speed at which he is most likely to be passed by a mule as he chews the grass along side the road).
This brings up another very important point, what causes rush hour? Have you ever stopped to figure this great mystery out? Well, I will tell you. You work 8-5, this is great you think because you get an hour for lunch and you have the benefits of sleeping in and after fighting traffic you have the opportunity to go home to be with you family, wife, kids etc… whatever your family is at this stage in your life. When your kid asks you for help with his science project, the reaction of a good father would be to jump up at the idea of spending time with their child. Instead, this father has allowed himself to get angry over the traffic on his way home and decides to yell at this child until the father himself is left alone. And we wonder why divorce applications have become a major purchase at your local convenience store.
While on his way home, he is unhappy at the speed of which traffic is traveling, as a driver he has the obligation to be proactive, so what does he do? He tail gates the whole way home. It doesn’t matter to him at what speed he is going as long as he gets to tail gait because tell gaiting is in no way hazardous to ones life.
In the course of daily events I have personally witnessed this event occur over and over again.
It is not uncommon for someone to tail gait and when he finally becomes the one that gets to lead the remainder of the following traffic, what does he do? What else but stay at the exact same speed, hey he may even slow down now that the person in front of he, which by the way, was going at least 15 miles over the speed limit in the first place, is gone and has created all the time in the world for this newly found front driver.
If you can not tell by this point in my story, I have much to say about the machine and all the robots that go along with it. I’m saddened to say that many of my friends even fall under the category of a robot. It’s as if ones IQ starts talking to its self and the conversation goes as follows;
“Hey me, I think I just got in a car, OH CRAP! NOT A CAR, ANYTHING BUT A CAR! Quick shut down sectors 1,2, 3… hey for that matter leave sector 322 (the section that maintains the bodies normal conditions excluding thinking of the brain) on turn everything else off, under no circumstance do I want our body to be thinking logically whiling driving, any other time, by all means, but we just got in a car for Pete’s sake, lets make this person stupid.”
You may be laughing, and if so, stop. Right now! Think about this, all of this, how many people do you know that have these symptoms? Are you one of these people? While driving, one of the things that I love the most, is watching all of these 8-5 drivers (I say 8-5 because it is rare that I witness ill drivers that work at other hours.) Here is a typical description of an 8-5 driver; absolutely under NO circumstance is this robot allowed to turn their head. This person is majorly lacking in self confidence, and what does this person do to compensate for it? Well ill tell you, two things are done here, the first, buy huge truck and jack it way up so that you can no longer see the other cars around you and your new insurance quote and lack of gas mileage gives you something new to dumped all of your hard earned money into, the second, DO NOT USE A TURN SIGNAL, for some reason this concept has grown to be an idea that it is socially unacceptable to use your turn signal when you change lanes or simply change your direction while driving not to mention the thrill that one must get when they see the look on the drivers faces around them when a vehicle is all of a sudden in a different lane. As funny as this may be, this is what causes accidents. Think about it, you’re in your car, most likely tail gaiting, and you’re completely surrounded by 8-5 workers and the occasional soccer mom. Which btw, soccer moms are awesome and amazing people, if you ever have the chance to watch one for a few minutes do it, but they are bound to be so busy, that you may want to have a place to go to to take a nap, simply watching a mother like this is bound to wear one out. Changing lanes like this, is bound to confuse the poor 8-5 worker and cause them to need to go to adverse therapy sessions at which the person accomplises nothing because, lets face it, male and female like, you wants to actually talk about their feelings and express them in a safe way? No most of this country, you mention anything about feelings, you’re all of a sudden friend less.
High school is amazing! Didn’t you love it? I remember, did you ever have any teachers that it seemed as if they absolutely hated your guts? I know for sure that I did and I to this day would never doubt that they really did hate me. The funny thing is this, all the teachers that I had like this were not young but old, here is a prime example of what an 8-5 job can do to you after large amounts of over exposure. Something that I would like to point out here, who is in charge of public schooling? Huh, the Government. That’s interesting, who is in charge of enforcing the law? Huh, again it’s the Government. Now, if you look back at something that you should have learned in school if you were not too busy being trained to be the mindless robot that many of us are and prepping for the States standardized testing to see if you know how to accurately take a test, and spending all of your free time out side of school looking up information on the internet trying to learn the important stuff that is not taught in school, btw, if you still have not figured this out, you were never being tested for what you knew, you were being tested on how good you are at taking the test, the students that did the best, most likely guessed their way through the test. I loved taking those standardized English tests, Almost every question I got wrong, who ever wrote the question book, was definitely not an English major, otherwise this ninth grader would not need to be spending their test time correcting all of the grammatical errors contained in a test booklet that were only put there in the first place to make sure a large amount of mis-understood words were included in the booklet. The Government wants students to succeed? How about trying a new style of teaching that involves something other then tests?
Studies conducted by myself, (“who does this kid think he is that he can justify announcing a study that he conducted himself? Well, I’m a human, I have the right to conduct a controlled observation and report my findings, regardless of the fact that I have not been to school to better stupefy my brain and earn a degree, Degree: A very expensive peace of paper stating that an individual has given up ones time efficiently enough to warrant speaking to the public.”) show that most students do not do well on tests but they have no problem using the information in real life applications. So, based off my studies, should we be testing in our schools? NO!
I keep getting side tract here, oh well, its at least all interesting to me. So, as you know, the Government, no matter what US government it is (City, County, State…) is broken into three divisions, the legislative, judicial and executive. We have already established that schools must be in some branch of government. That narrows our options down to those three. Which could it be? Executive? Nope, why would a president care about your individual kid? That’s not his job, his job is to protect the country as a whole and assure that a majority of the people are well taken care of and have everything they need so they will be happy to pay their taxes and support a government that is filled with corrupt politicians waiting to cover up their next act of constitutional breakage. Before you go judging my personal character, I wish to inform you that we have what is to be considered the best government on earth. I support all government leaders fully and respect their position and thank them for their honest and dedicated efforts that are contributed to our great country on a daily basis.
