simplify

SIMPLIFY


I’m glad to see that my minions picked up easily on my excess liquidity/wife #4 connection. See how simple this stuff is? Too much money, get a wife. Too much time on your hands? Ditto. Now, I’m not complaining. I’m not one of those guys that thrives on being a bachelor. I find more contentment in belonging to a household unit, even if that brings drama. And the cost increase is minimal. The truck was the primary expense, which is now gone. The cigarettes and booze were half that cost ( well, they were about the same, now they are half that cost ). The cats weren’t as much expensive as they were high maintenance. I’ll miss the cats. They were locked in the old apartment my step-daughter was kicked out of. She could have shown up and authorized their release, and it wasn’t like she was busy with employment, but she was a bitch and wouldn’t ( yes, dear, I love you too ). The only bright spot is that the animal shelter is a no-kill. I do feel bad they will be in cages, but I can’t take any old day off work. The volume of activity is too much for part time resolution from other department personnel. But, back on topic, most everything is pretty simple. Not only do we needlessly complicate things, we do so at our own risk.

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Life is pretty simple. Women pop out chillins. Men provide for and protect them. Of course, it isn’t quite as simple as that. Women protect and provide the children themselves by selecting a male and keeping him happy so he’ll stay around. Actually, we males are pretty much just big dumb spear chuckers and/or spear shields. The ladies do most everything else and we do the heavy lifting. So, whenever a female gets all woozy and faint and screeches about being regarded as a piece of meat, she is actually deflecting criticism from herself. The real sexism is against males who are brutally sent out into the wild to hunt and lined up outside the huts to protect the women and children. Frankly, I’m insulted that I’m not loved for my brain ( and hair ).

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Notice how, fundamentally, our jobs are all pretty simple? Don’t get me wrong, certain jobs like medical doctors are reserved for the small percentage with increased mental function, at least memorization, but after the initial training you basically have problem X and the answer usually is, treat the symptoms with drug Y. I’m not trying to belittle anyone’s accomplishments, I’m just saying that we usually give ourselves way too much credit. We frantically add complexity to any problem, but that is usually just job security attempts. And that still stays within our basic simplistic mode of operation, since we created the complexity which boils down to the same basics we already know. Look at Obammy. Any problem he gets, he asks himself four questions. Do I bail them out? Do I raise taxes? Do I send in the Marines? Do I make this problem disappear until after the next election? That is pretty much it. All his advisors are tasked with accomplishing one or two agenda’s. If we don’t want to get Oswald’ed, we do X. If we want a lucrative ten million dollar book deal after our term, we do Y. Human beings aren’t as smart as we claim. It is usually behaviorally hardwired or chemically controlled. Our brain is a great organic computer, but is more an Atari than a Craig Supercomputer.

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Look at yours truly. I might muck about in many and varied subject matters, but all I’m doing is getting a bigger picture which helps paint a better explanation of underlying causes. The more areas of expertise you artificially skim, the easier it is to point to common threads. In the end, you end up doing less thinking because the complexity is smoothed out. Most everything is simplicity itself. Human behavior boils down to survival and procreation. Economics boils down to excess energy and its control. Politics is that control. Governments are successful according to the acquisition of that surplus energy. Breasts serve absolutely no lactate function ( other than an increased body fat total, but even that is marginal usually ), they are there to mesmerize and control the male ( not bad for a couple of sacks of fat ). Your job is a few simple repetitive tasks. Any complexity is for the purposes of obscuring this fact. All welfare is only possible through surplus- good intentions are incidental. Survivalism is just trying to re-simplify back to a time pre-Oil Age, when protect and provide were the only directives. Yuppie survivalism is just trying to simplify even that concept.

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Yuppie Survivalists have so over complicated their own lives by taking their simple jobs and making them seem difficult to keep the riches pouring in, they have no time or mental capacity left to figure out how to survive post-petroleum. Hence, things are made quite simple for them. Stockpile enough to continue your present lifestyle. That is it in a nutshell. All you survivalist authors out there, I’ve just simplified your future books to such a degree that you need not go through the effort of writing. That is it. One sentence, one concept. Why, you certainly are very welcome. Thank me later. Now you can spend all your time compiling photographs and pie charts. Much more colorful than a bunch of boring words in black and white. I mean, look at what too many words can do. I splash out way too much drivel everyday and you are hypnotized into buying my books or books through Amazon. Now you know what to look out for. Hey, how much of my crap do you really need to read? Frugal prepping is easy peasy, beans and bolts. Sure, I write enough and just the odds that I’ll accidentally churn out an occasional act of brilliance is almost automatic ( the thousand monkeys pounding on typewriters accidentally writing Shakespeare ). So, I guess you could stick around just for those. After all, the price is right. Remember, everything is simple. Embrace that and you will feel better about life. You can slow down and relax.

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