discapline

DISCIPLINE


http://woodpilereport.com/ . Ol Remus has a pretty good article this week, giving us all a refresher course on the commie whores in charge starving the population on purpose. Most Americans unfurl the flag, shed a tear for Chevy ( now Government Motors owned and barely operated ) and apple pie, and proudly proclaim it simply can’t happen here. No, here we have the FDA holding back drugs for years or decades of testing as current victims die off. Non-violent drug users going to prison where they get AIDS and die in horrible pain. Hundreds of thousands of young men killed in battle as they disagreed that the federal government should have more power than the states. Or killed for the central bankers ( illegally given monopoly power over the currency ) as they desperately try to keep those in power they lent munitions money to. Or we expose unfortunate civilians downwind to cancer causing levels of radiation. Or our troops to Agent Orange or depleted uranium dust or toxic immunizations. But don’t you believe for a second our government would deliberately starve us. The same government that raises property taxes so high a lifetime house is lost. The same government that renditions our citizens for torture. I’d better stop before I get upset.

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Thank you, Druid Dude, (http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/ ) for an idea to steal. Those have gotten a bit scarce as of late. The lack of discipline in this fair and wonderful empire of ours. Of course, I’m just stealing the idea of discipline. The Druid Dude went in a whole other direction. I never gave this a whole lot of thought before. But working where I do, and having the darling companion that I do, the lack of any discipline in people is really obvious. I guess I should be thankful as it really makes my modest efforts seem grand in comparison. Simply put, lack of discipline for children and lack of self-discipline in adults is a pretty damn bad thing. But probably the norm anymore. You all know that little crap eating curtain climber that lacks structure and feedback. I can calmly ignore most Bible quotes and feel I’m not missing much, but a few really speak Wisdom Of The Ages. Like spare the rod and spoil the child. I like to add spare the rod and spoil the wife, but everyone looks at me all funny, like I farted at a cocktail party for the Governor. I try to explain that this only applies to uppity wives but they don’t buy it. Doesn’t the bible say something about how thick the rod can be and no larger? Or was that colonial law? I can’t remember. I’m not a monster, the rod would be thin enough ( I’m kidding, please don’t put on the Idiot Helmet and challenge me to battle. If you can’t control your women you should leave her- she has what you can’t cure. Let the bitch starve out in the cold [ we’re talking post-jobs here, old school no welfare times ], that is much more humane than beating her ).

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The above kind of underlines our lack of discipline, doesn’t it? Wives nowadays feel no obligation towards doing anything that feels yuckie. Husbands feel no obligation towards supporting their family if it entails real work- Uncle Sugar will provide the grub and section eight housing. And kids can be little monsters. Every kid goes through the supermarket visit screaming I Want, I Want. What they are really saying to the parent is I Want You To Beat My Stupid Ass Pretty Please. But the parents don’t hear what is actually being said. They whisper threats, look stern, and buy the snot factory anything they want. Way to go, genius. Now when you tell the bastard something that is for their own good like, don’t pick your fecal smeared ass crack and taste it or you will vomit lunch the same color as your Kool Aid, get sick for a week and maybe even die and I’ll be investigated by Child Services, inevitably by the case worker that is an oppressed hostile minority, has no kids of her own and hasn’t been laid in eighteen months because she weighs 300 pounds. And we don’t use TV as a reward, but a babysitter. My mom was pretty no nonsense. First off, she loved smacking you aside the head. Generally it went something like, I would hit my sister up aside the head ( it never knocked any sense into her ), and she would go back and forth aside my head screaming about giving my sister brain damage. I’m not making that up. And TV was strictly rationed. You got an hour and a half a night, if you did your chores. And if you pissed her off, even if you did your chores, no TV. And we thought we had lost a treat, even if the TV was three channels in black and white ( I’m not so old programming was in B&W, I had no-debt-policy parents who saved to buy the cheap-B&W- TV with cash. I don’t think that bitch has died yet, and that was bought very early 70’s ). What happens when you give them their brain candy without regard to merit? They get hooked on cheap mental drugs.

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TV is an opiate. Nothing wrong with it, in moderation. But sedating kids in front of it does not help instilling proper behavior. They want instant gratification from then on. Not that TV is the only culprit. Handing discipline- and very ineffective discipline at that- over to the schools is another. And let’s face it, not beating the mini-idiots. It wasn’t like I’m a mass of scars from my childhood beatings. They were few and far apart. Because they were effective. I learned quickly to avoid pain. I know I pretend to be perfect. It amuses me ( although my hair is the pinnacle of perfection ). I make a lot of mistakes and I do occasionally give in to temptation. But 95% of the time I’m moving in a positive direction. Attempting to be perfect. But I couldn’t do that without discipline. Giving in to temptation, doing what feels right, not making the hard choices, that is a self reinforcing negative loop. Pretty soon, in very short order, you are a worthless human being that is just sucking up others oxygen. You need ever more larger doses of pleasure and can tolerate less and less discomfort.

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On the other hand, a small amount of discipline also feeds on itself, in a positive manner. Every time you force yourself to postpone pleasure, to use it as a reward rather than a state of feeling for its own sake, you can add more and more discipline at lesser perceived effort. And the act of discipline itself starts to give you pleasure, rather than the wallowing in stimuli that used to be your enjoyment. Do you think I enjoy riding a bicycle in winter as it is snowing and seven degrees out? Now, yes. Not because that itself is so much fun but because I am taking satisfaction from saving ten bucks in gas for one round trip to work in the truck. The same with being frugal. I enjoy the savings not buying luxuries bring. It goes to preps, a warm satisfying feeling ( we shall ignore the consumerist aspect of it for now ). Or books, which increases my knowledge which adds to my writing skills which adds to my income. I’ve mentioned previously that I discipline myself to write a minimum amount daily. That adds, at least in my mind, an added value I’m offering and can conceivable increase my writing income. But the immediate feedback to that discipline isn’t the distant intangible possible payment but the immediate feeling of accomplishment not only at what I’ve created but that I’ve forced myself to do it in the first place. Yes, I do feel superior in a lot of ways, living the way I do. Not because staying cold in winter is noble or even smart but because I can discipline myself to do it. I’ve lived both ways, a drunken wretch only out for alcohol, entertainment and sex and now moderate in all. This way is much better. You feel better, you feel like you aren’t wasting a life. Try to accomplish something before you die other than pleasuring yourself.

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