The “Ugly American” …….. what a concept.
Has it changed ……. are Americans less ethnocentric? Are they less arrogant and thoughtless?
Well, to ease your mind in case you thought you had missed something in the last forty years ……… No, they aren’t.
That is exactly what that American Exceptionalism is all about.
Oh sure it’s bull shit but so is the American Dream and the American Political System, which is really more nightmare than dream.
And not to surprise you but they have always been.
See when one needs to justify what is clearly JUST WRONG the Exceptionalism Dream of America is the default position. So in that way “we Americans” don’t need to conform to normal rules or general principles of others because we are special.
And that makes our killing and torturing and destroying morally necessary so as to assist those we kill, torture and destroy to better their chances at “democracy”. This is the rationale of all those “humanitarian-wars” we start are all about.
As a country we seem to be in the middle of “a race to the bottom” and with the likes of Obomba, Hillary, and Jeb as leadership examples, well face it ……… we are fucking doomed.
No really ……. “THAT’S ALL FOLKS”!
The cartoon that is American has run off its reel.
The Story Behind the story that is behind that story.
So here is THAT story:
Today Tubularsock, it has been reported in the Washington Toast, resigned from all his positions in management and supervisory boards of companies and foundations. It is assumed by this reporter that Tubularsock has taken this step in order to position himself so as to avoid conflicts of interest for high political office.
Though Tubularsock has said publicly that he has no intentions of running for President this nano-second, rumors have been spread by TubePact that he would consider running but not as a fucking-corporate-ass-licking Democrat or a head-up-their-ass Republican.
Rumor has it, from a source this reporter trusts as much as himself, that Tubularsock has been asked by the
Groundswell Party to carry the banner of victory all the way to the Oval Office on Pennsylvania Avenue!
This is a late breaking story so new information will be disclosed in the future as this story progresses.
In the meantime my we suggest getting your update from Tabloids. They also seem to know shit before it happens as well.
CHANGING CHANGELESS CHANGE?
I guess Tubularsock holds a grudge.
Enjoying the sun coming through Tubularsock’s top floor corner office windows in his underground bunker overlooking Washington, D.C. from Oakland, CA Tubularsock sits and ponders as he often does each new year.
Tubularsock’s observation is simple. What the fuck is new about a new year? What has changed from 11:59 to 12 midnight that would warrant the hype?
And depending on where you are on planet earth when that 11:59 to 12 midnight happens are at different fucking times. So in Istanbul when the partying starts New Yorkers are still waiting for this illusionary time to arrive for them and by the time it arrives in Oakland, CA well …… fuck it! It’s old time. Tubularsock has gone to bed. Tubularsock doesn’t like to wait!
But that isn’t why Tubularsock holds a grudge which he still clings to from the top of this page.
Tubularsock’s second observation is why doesn’t change change? EVERYONE pontificates that change is, change will, or change won’t change.
But what are they talking about?
For example, some people “change jobs” but they still get up in the morning and eat their breakfast on the run. Catch the bus or drive their car or ride their bike to the “changed job”. They still get a break or at least take a break mid-morning, have lunch on the run, and end up in a cool bar to drink after work to complain to whoever else have survived another work job day. So where’s the change.
How about political change …… no Tubularsock isn’t trying to be humorous here.
We are led to believe we elect a President but where does he/she or it come from to run for President. Really, raise your hand if you have ever known a President as a personal friend. See! Where do they really come from?
Well, they all say they come from a groundswell. So does that mean that we are all dirt?
They all say they want to change Washington and the Nation but who gets the advantage of that change or more to the point does it even change?
Because you are dirt you get to pick A or B. There is no C,D,E,or F. Only A or B and in truth they are the same.
Stop, Tubularsock knows the argument. So don’t give me all that shit about how important electing one of these two jerks is our sacred right as citizens. If no one showed up to vote one of the two jerks would be President anyway. And there are some individuals who know right now who that will be!
A or B all have gone to the same schools, join the same clubs, hang out with the same whores (sorry, meant escorts), are on the same board of directors, use the same PR firms, use the same political advisors, snort the best cocaine, smoke Cuban cigars or use them as sexual objects (talking to you Bill) and are always intwined with the CIA in some manner.
But none of that is why Tubularsock is holding a grudge.
And then do we really want change?
Most people get their groove on when they are young and try to play it out the rest of their lives for better or for worse.
Death is the ultimate game changer of change. As is divorce, illness, and children.
Shit happens along the way and change is usually the culprit!
How you end up playing the new hand you are dealt is what makes change good for you or bad for you. It is really a crap-shoot.
So is change good or bad is a moot point …….. change is.
So why is Tubularsock carrying this grudge all this time you may ask?
Simple! What we see isn’t what we get and what we get isn’t what we see.
That is how life’s hologram works.
Tubularsock doesn’t know whether you realize this or not BUT nobody was asked if they wanted to be here ……..
Nobody gets to choose their parents.
Their culture.
Their religion or belief structure.
Their social position.
No, YOU WERE TRAINED INTO ALL THAT.
Even to the point that A NEW YEAR is like some kind of new beginning, a starting point.
IT’S NOT! It is a trained mind frame that you live from because you have been trained to do that.
That is why Tubularsock holds this grudge. NO ONE ASKED HIM!
And that is why Tubularsock sits in his top floor corner office in his underground bunker overlooking Washington D.C. from Oakland, CA.
Some shit is just difficult to believe.
Tubularsock was sitting reading the German press and ran across this story. The interesting thing is that Tubularsock’s top floor corner office overlooking Washington D.C. from Oakland, CA is a stones throw from Mountain View as the crow flies.
And it took the Germans to fill Tubularsock in on a local story.
A few side notes. Mountain View is a traffic infested dumpy little town south of San Francisco and for the life of Tubularsock where a view of a “mountain” comes into the picture is beyond me!
Yes, the coast range moves along the coast but “mountain” is an exaggeration to say the least.
That being said Knightscope has in reality created seven K5 robots and four of them have already been ordered for use at a technology company.
A K5 is about as tall as a person and is designed to “act friendly and threatening at the same time”. Kind of like your mother-in-law on Thanksgiving!
These little guys are packed with cameras, microphones, weather sensors, navigation equipment and electric motors which allows a K5 to slide on rollers across the floor or parking lot and evaluate it’s surroundings and they are programmed to detect “abnormal behavior”, sure …….. No, these aren’t the droids you’re looking for …..
According to the U.S. Census there are about a million people that work in sentry type jobs in security companies. K5 can do this type of work for less than half the cost of a living person. Their battery lasts for 24 hours and is programed to go to the charging station when low. Recharge time takes 15 minutes. Hey! Every worker needs a break!
And that is exactly why Tubularsock came up with the idea of unionizing them. That, and the fact that a K5 isn’t armed yet. So to organize them is still safe for Tubularsock. But of course drones weren’t armed when they started out either ……… the possibilities are unlimited!
Just a matter of time …….. and as long as the Grand Jury is filled with BOTS there won’t be any indictment against a K5 either!
Dylan’s Italian America
Well ……… Tubularsock has found it. In Bob Dylan’s song Mississippi on his 2001 album Love and Theft the catch phrase is “ . . . the only thing, that I did wrong was stay in Mississippi a day too long”.
Now the SECOND thing Bob has done wrong was sell his questionable idol image to the Chrysler Commercial bullshit ad for the 2014 Super Bowl.
The catch phrase in the “Nostalgic” Chrysler ad bullshit is, “Is there anything more American than America.”
Now the reaction has been swift from the “liberals” and “progressives” about Bob SELLING OUT.
For Christ sake are they kidding?
Tubularsock never saw Bob Dylan as ever really BUYING IN so how could he SELL OUT.
Let’s get something straight ……….. Bob Dylan is no Pete Seeger or Woody Guthrie!
These men were writing and singing their songs because they were believers in what their song’s messages were about …….. they sang their songs and walked their talk!
You would have NEVER EVER seen Pete or Woody do a Super Bowl Ad! It would have been total sacrilege of everything they believed in and dedicated their lives to attempt to change in this “America than American”!
But Dylan wrote some incredible and powerful songs but he was a performer and song writer not a true crusader. Even during his civil rights years it was Joan Baez that was the crusader not Dylan.
Now don’t get Tubularsock wrong here, Dylan stands alone as the sage of the 1960’s.
He not only chronicled the period but his work defined and advanced it.
But he himself only realized that his work was created as a creative “third”. He put voice to the feelings of the time and captured for eternity the essence of the moment.
It was others that kept trying to contain Bob Dylan not Dylan himself.
That entire “going electric” thing was the “static fan base” trying to keep creative performance from developing. Dylan was into growth not tradition. Which is surprising when you compare the “Nostalgic” Chrysler ad bullshit of today.
But times do change as The Times Are A Changing.
Even Pete Seeger and his Weavers played the Thunderbird in Las Vegas in 1951.
And Bob Dylan over the years has passed through Las Vegas many times. After all business is business.
But where Pete Seeger was always pushing an agenda until his recent death Bob Dylan moved from a sage into a businessman.
His recent work doesn’t come close to the grandeur of his early work but THEN he was a conduit of the times and those times have changed into the narrow self-centered money-hungry egotistic psychopathic times we are witnessing today.
To make money off your past fame for several million dollars is considered “normal”.
Embarrassing to those who READ INTO Dylan’s persona, much like those that READ INTO Obama’s persona. Your projection is not reality! You really haven’t been fooled, you have misread what they were about. THAT is not their fault!
It is YOU that is at fault. Wake the fuck up!
But that is not the fun part of the “Nostalgic” Chrysler ad bullshit. The fun part is that after they boringly run this non-creative advertisement about nostalgic America , with James Dean, and Route 66, and American Diners the over-voice of Dylan then says,
“So let Germany brew your beer. Let Switzerland make your watch. Let Asia assemble your phone. We . . . will build . . . your car.”
Wow. Tubularsock even saw the American flag waving over “Car-Lot-America” until he realized that Chrysler is a wholly owned subsidiary of Italian multinational automaker Fiat!
“Is there anything more American than America.”
YEAH …………. ITALY!