An Answer to the Ultimate Gaslighting

Trigger warning: I drop the F bomb a lot.

Yeah, I’m sorry but cannot put on the cheerleader outfit and shake my pom-poms for another round of…

Blame the media…

Blame the President…

Blame the marketing professionals…

No, no, no. Absolutely not.

You know how you avoid being “gaslit”?

You take some fucking responsibility for the situation you are in and you take a stand. You stop being a fucking door mat.

Back up. About a year ago, I was living Silicon Valley. Hated it. Hated the place, the people, the traffic, the noise. I felt trapped.

I listened to David Goggins book — “Can’t hurt me”. It’s a blunt, macho, and in many ways, offensive book, but boy did that book change a lot of people’s lives.

You know why?

Because he called out the root problem in our society.

Laziness. Apathy. Blaming others. Being a fucking whiner. Not getting off your ass and solving your own fucking problems.

So I fucking moved. To a horse farm. I proposed a life together to the woman I adore. I dropped the car, the clothes, the bullshit, the media, the bitching about the vapid “technocratic elite”.

I popped smoke, cleared out, changed my life.

I’m happier. I control my life. I don’t buy useless shit, we try and grow most of our own food, we don’t watch to much television, and if we could, we’d likely throw our phones in the river.

Simple.

So in plain English, unless you are fucking slow, or were living under a fucking rock or locked away at Gitmo since 1980, you know ALL OF THIS already and you’ve been choosing it.

That’s right — you CHOSE to live in a society that is fucked up.

You know how screwed up the USGOV is, you know that the politicians and technocracts don’t give a rat’s ass about you, you know how marketing works, you know how consumerism works, and if you fall for the “Ultimate Gaslighting,” you are a lazy, and I hate to say it — stupid.

Did society make you that way? Or do you continually choose stupid because it’s easier than participating in democracy?

Oh, right, sorry again. Democracy is not a fucking spectator’s sport.

Iraq War on false grounds — were you out there protesting?

Black people being shot on the way to the convenience store? You called your representatives right?

Lead in the water in Flint?

Pipeline though an Indian reservation?

The gutting of healthcare?

The election of a buffoon?

The overvaluation of an entire economy that was filled with fluff companies?

You were gaslit then too?

Oh. I’m sorry. Here’s a therapy voucher.

The author’s error comes mid-passage. “We don’t have time to do anything about this…”

Bullshit. We have plenty of time. We waste time on nonsense because we do not have priorities as citizens.

So, if you have your head buried in a bag of Fritos and your arm stuck in a twelve-pack of Bud-light, you have plenty of time.

You’re just fucking lazy.

If you have your phone glued to your fucking head and you can’t stop swiping fashion, sports and celebrity nonsense…

You’re just fucking lazy.

I appreciate that 116k people are “clapping” on a social media platform for this drivel.

No thanks.

We need to get off our asses and take back our planet and democracy and stop creating theories about how the bad guys are fooling us.

We are fooling ourselves.

Take some responsibility.