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PyrotheClown -> RE: Are we raising a generation of nincompoops? (10/5/2010 12:41:47 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BoredAsHell
i think we're on the second or third generation of nincompoops! i mean seriously, look around at the people you see at the mall at any given day. it's enough to make you want to lock yourself indoors and cower in fear. the idiots aren't coming, they're here!
Before I started a "job" petitioning, I had a pretty good amount of faith in humanity as a whole....that amount of faith quickly shriveled up and died as I was bombarded with the point of view of the "vast unwashed". I often ran into such questions as"what's a politician","legislative what?","is *blank* a republican or democrat"(blank being what ever presidential candidate of the moment, or what ever candidate they had seen on tv who they thought was running for president)"term limits, you mean like prison","yeah, I have a license"(when asked if they were registered to vote),and my personal favorite "election?".And it doesn't stop there, some of these nimcapoops who had no idea of what was going on, had already formed opinions on issues that some of them admitted they had no idea about,"We shouldn't do nuttin like they do in europe, this is the United States Of Merica","You know what's wrong with this country, non them enviroterrorists won't let us do nutt'n here"(yeah, cause cheap labor has nothing to do with outsourcing)"We need to get all them senators out"-"do you know who your senator is?"-"um....no" ect.ect.ect.
but that was just the tip of the ice burg...then I tried to hire people to petition,and while being a half retarded slacker myself, i found that it's amazingly easy to make hundreds of dollars a day pedaling paperwork, so easy that half the people I worked with for other coordinators amazed my already jaded ideas of how stupid people can be, and they were still able to do it, really, it's that easy, just stand outside a store and bug every single person that walks in...it's that easy(shit, half my "coworkers" didn't even read the tripe they were circulating). But of course then I found the real example of how useless most people really are, I took out adds in papers and posters on campus walls, every thing, and I was training bout 20 people a month, and do I get any results for training sooo many people in such an easy job(and we're not talking bout just retards, I'm talking bout training every one from school teachers to college kids to drug dealers, every one that came to get a job), at the end of the campaigns, I had five people who came back and got paid, the only two who did it more then once were both mentally retarted...really, the others that turned in were a mish mash, some were able to break one hundred dollars with in just a few hours(one, a long time friend of mine, who is a young father of two, and is living off minimal college grants in his moms house, made a hundred in one day, but never turned it in...now he's doing landscaping for scratch and complaining of the shitty hours)the others were sad lumps who just turned in what I had made for them during training.
So needless to say, I've been trying to come up for a reason that catastrophic plagues and natural disasters wouldn't be all that bad, but have yet to find a solid answer....
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