August 5, 2011

• Bitchin'

  Bitchin'

  There are sites dedicated to bitchin', and by bitchin' I mean, express displeasure; grumble. Some of the sites are free. You can just sign up and bitch. Any bitchin' session has to be governed by rules though, so the sites are categorized. Let's be real about this. Who wants to read someone's bitchin' on something about which we do not want to bitch? That's just annoying. Bitchin' is only annoying when people are bitchin' about something we don't want to bitch about. There's just no interest and no interest makes things boring, tedious or downright annoying. What to do? Start bitchin' about it. There's a certain finesse that goes along with bitch sites. You have to have a bitchin' moderator to make sure the bitchin' stays on track, the flame wars stay directed at the bitchin' target and no one comes in who has thought about it too much. Thinking ruins bitchin'. Oh, I don't mean the kind of thinking bitches do. I'm talking about real thinking. The kind that takes effort and weighs pros and cons. The kind of thinking that looks at something from every possible angle. What? You've never heard of such a thing? Sure you have. You've just not seen much of it in our world today. There was a time when people did that kind of thinking, at least some people did. I'll bet there are still people who do that kind of thinking. The problem is they're not welcome on bitchin' sites. Those people are truly annoying. The bastards! They take apart our flimsy, negative bitchin' line by line and ask embarrassing questions about it. Questions that make us look like the foolish bitches we are when we go around foolishly bitchin' about something because we didn't understand it or it didn't make us look good or feel good.

  Bitchin' used to be done in people's homes more often than not. When I was a child I remember my mother going over to a neighbor's house for coffee with a number of other women. They'd all get together and bitch about their husbands or some other woman in the neighborhood that wasn't there. She was out doing something the others could bitch about. They didn't really know the woman but they knew all about how she should behave and live and talk and think and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Written out, that string of blah, blah, blahs doesn't look like much, but I sing it in my head while I'm writing it and it's quite melodic and pleasing. Bitchin' is discordant and grating because it lacks harmony. Life is better with harmony but we don't really understand harmony so much. We think it's something they used to have in music before all there was in music was big bitchin' bass and bitchin' beat. Sure, it's about music, but it's about so much more than music. Harmony is the quality of forming a pleasing and consistent whole. There's not a lot of harmony in our world today, but there's a lot of bitchin'. We've become bitches bitchin' about everything from the President and his bitch to the guy next door and his bitch that keeps us up all night with her barking. We bitch about the government, the economy, the world, people, animals, the rain forest, global warming. You name it! We'll bitch about it. We've become a bitchin' culture.

  Blame it on the internet! That's the bitchin' thing to do. People can bitch on the internet with impunity. Impunity means exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action. Now that's bitchin'. The internet is anonymous. Anonymous means not identified by name; of unknown name. It's cool. You can bitch every which way but loose and never have to think about injurious consequences. There are no internet police or courts. It's like the Wild West without the Earps, Bat Masterson or Marshall Dillon. There doesn't have to be a shred of truth in your bitchin'. It just has to be interesting. Remember what makes something interesting? Someone has to be interested in it. That's all. With the negative social mood on the planet today it's easy peasy lemon squeezy to find someone interested in bitchin' about some thing, some one or some cause. You may have figured out by now that today's bitchin' is about the same thing as yesterday's gossip. The rules are still pretty much the same. It's as effective as it's ever been because we're as ignorant as we've always been. Ouch. Sorry. We only think we're getting smarter. We're really getting dumber. There's a difference between being informed and being intelligent. Intelligence is the ability to adapt. Being informed is the ability to collect information. You don't have to understand the information you collect. You do have to be intelligent to adapt new information into new knowledge that can be used in a productive way. I don't blame the internet or the bitch sites. I take responsibility for it. How I do that is I don't read it, listen to it or believe it. Okay, my bitches, class dismissed.

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