Random Thoughts 1

Election Fallacy

It’s the Monday of the second week after the many holidays we had.  South Africa’s voting is done and the news surrounding it is subsiding.  The election posters still hang on the lamp posts, and will continue hanging there long after the elections are forgotten, rotting away as the elements weather them; the parties who put them there too lazy to take them down, and too concerned with other matters.

Of course the effects of the voting will linger on much longer. The poor black people, who are the majority in this country and who constantly vote for the ANC, will once again go home hungry and jobless while their black masters steal the little tax they pay through VAT on the bare necessities. Expect more extravagant parties, airplanes, fancy cars, hookers and Nkandlas in the near future.

I don’t know what is worse: the fact that the poor still vote ANC despite the squalor they live in or the fact that they voted for a party that has been proven to be morally bankrupt.  I guess the black poor will sell their souls for food hampers any time of the day.  It begs the question: should one now provide aid to such people or let famine set in?  What would be the morally right thing to do, the Godly thing?  What would Jesus do?  Would He continue to help them, or would He now leave them to their own devices?  5 years ago there was still some inkling that, despite voting for the wrong party, there was still some hope for the sheeple.  At least in my mind.  But no longer can one stand idly and watch the circus procession, especially with all the latest revelations. 

Let me be clear:  my hope was never in the ANC, thus the reason I never voted for them.  My hope was in the "Black Masses", the majority in this country, to be smart about their vote and, this time around, at least vote for another black party other than the ANC. But hopes are shattered.  Maybe it’s because the E-tolls and other thieving (read taxes) appear to touch the middle class and rich more than the poor?  Perhaps it is because the poor doesn’t know how badly it will affect them in the end?  Ah well.  Let’s see what will happen next election.  It’s going to be harder to give any beggars money at the traffic lights, though.

Facebook Shenanigans

Facebook can be very entertaining sometimes, especially if your friends and/or family are the type of people that just love to spill their most intimate thoughts on the ‘net for the world to see (note: never a good idea).  It makes me wonder whether these people actually go into these moments of love (read: madness) when around other people.  Just imagine this scenario: you are walking along the road on a lovely sunny day, small coffee shops lining the street, the smell of fresh coffee in the air, completely minding your own business.  Then suddenly, without warning, one of your friends/family members, who recently gave birth, walks up to you and say: “My lovely <insert baby name> is now <insert number> months old.  Oh how cute she/he has become!  Oh my <Insert baby name>, mommy and daddy loves you sommer stukkend, and loves you plenty of times. Mhwaa!”

In days past, when there was no Facebook or MySpace, one would usually give an awkward smile, slowly retreat a few steps, and then run for the hills…or the nearest telephone to call those smartly dressed chaps in white overhauls and padded ambulances.  Social media has now allowed even the most sane-looking, down-to-earth person make themselves look like complete psychopaths by allowing them to post the most inane, private and disconnected thoughts on the internet for all to see.  A note to social media users: you may love your child “stukkend”, but the rest of us can’t give a rats ass.  Please, for the love of human sanity, keep such silly thoughts to yourselves.  It’s neither a smart nor a good idea to post such things on the internet.  Your child can’t read at that age anyway, so how do you think they’ll ever get the message?

And another thing: STOP WITH THE GAME INVITES ON FACEBOOK!  If I haven’t joined your silly little game on the internet by the 5^th invite, guess what, I’m not going to join your silly little game on the internet! I have other more productive things to do than Farm-ville or Dragon City or whatever other nonsense keeps people out of relationships and life nowadays.  

And please, it’s not that I don’t want to spend time with you.  I really do, but here’s the thing:  I would rather do it face to face at a coffee shop, or the movies, or a restaurant, or the game/comic shop, or a LAN party (and for sanity’s sake please make it a single day over the weekend and let me know a few weeks in advance.  I’m a working man, after all). Then we can talk proper and get some real bro time in.

Work Madness

So the holidays are gone until June the 16^th, which means everyone will be running around again like headless chickens shoving as much work as they can, as quickly as they can, into the “Out” tray.  This is where the love for your job really comes into play big time.  Sad fact is that I don’t love my job (I really, really hate it), but that’s probably how life goes.  You can’t have your bread buttered on both sides.   Anyway, back to what I’m trying to get at. Why is everyone in such a freakin’ hurry to get their jobs done?  It’s not like the projects will stop coming in if you rush everything, and the harder you work the more work comes charging in.  Why have everyone jumped so quickly into their work this year with such mad, fanatical devotion?  Am I missing something?  Are people afraid they might not finish their jobs before the Apocalypse?  Or is there some other sinister reason to the madness?  I really don’t get it.  It’s like everyone turned the dial to “Mad-hatter” at the start of this year and just charged into their work.  Why?  Perhaps you can give me the low-down.  Hit the comments below and give me a buzz, would you? I would really appreciate knowing what you think.