Politics 13.

The silver lining.

All the liars, uncreative boobs, partisan hacks, tyrants, robber barons, dipshits, dupes, puppets, victims, vipers, warped dreamers, discordants, crooks,and killers that fuck up this world and make it unpleasant...are thankfully a minority.

For the sake of argument, let's take right-wing paranoia to it's maximum conclusion, and at face value, and say that everyone in government is evil, none of them are decent, rotten to the core.

How many people work in government?

I don't mean clerks, secretaries, y'know, the poor bitches and bastards that guys like Tim McVeigh like to blow up, I'm talking actual decision makers.

A few hundred?

How about worldwide?

A few thousand?

Let's even make no distinction, and throw in all the dictators and their goons.

Let's over estimate, and round up, and say, oh, a hundred thousand.

This is way more than we need, but let's go with it to be safe.

A hundred thousand of the leadership class.

Sound about right?

Even over-killing the number that much, out of 6 billion, that's nothing.

And how many business crooks have we got?

Your Wall-Street weasels, your "too big to fail", bankers, your Bernie Madoffs, your bribing lobbyists, that whole lot.

And I'm talking ones that pull levers of power, and change the world around them, big scale, long term, not the guy who just watches the dough roll in from Sham-Wow, and lets loose a foie-gras fart.

Let's take left-wing paranoia to its maximum conclusion, and at face value, and take all these "movers and shakers", and assume they're all evil, none of them are decent, rotten to the core.

How many of them have we got?

A few hundred "titans of industry", but lets even lump in all the second and third bananas, and pencil pushers from Wall-Street, and the banks, and say oh, a few million.

Oh, I dunno, 3 to 6 sound good?

3 to 6 million business weasels.

That number easily absorbs the previous hundred thousand from the leadership class, and it's still a pisshole in the snow compared to 6 billion.

How about where the rubber meets the road on the global stage?

Your lead-chuckers.

The military.

Let's take peacenik paranoia to its maximum conclusion, and at face value, and just assume all war is pure evil, and every soldier is guilty whether they actually are a scumbag, or a naive dupe, and assume no one in the chain of command has good intent, and say there are no "good guys", or "bad guys", and make every army from every government equal.

Let's even get nuts, and throw in all the insurgents, warlords, and terrorists.

How many have we got?

How many fevered little humans making things go "boom", in any capacity have we got?

A few million to be sure.

Worldwide....let's round it up to 200 million to be safe.

I don't know off the top of my head how many little robot dudes the Chinese are marching around, so, let's go 200 million.

It might even be too low.

Fuck, even overkilling it to half a billion, out of 6 billion, still a minority.

A minority being bossed around by an even tinier minority.

Hell, let's even throw all the world's violent and sexual criminals into that half billion.

Half a billion people out of 6 billion causing all the trouble.

Shit, right, we're actually up to 7 billion now.

And we're supposed to get up to 10 billion fairly shortly.

Eh, I'm sure that half a billion is way too much too...

I mean, that's being lazy, and assuming all the people above are blackhearted demons.
Or, at the least, selfish ignorant pricks.

Sift out the gray area folks, or the well-intended, you can cut it in half again, I'm sure.

Minimum, but let's over-estimate it still, and say there are a quarter of a billion genuine assholes fucking up the planet.

That's not too bad.

Let's say we put all these people in one place, and nuke the fuckers.

Hey, seems a bit harsh, but do the math.

We've made this calculation before.

It was thought a full land invasion of Japan in WWII was going to result in at least 1 million deaths.

The nuclear bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed all together about a quarter of a million, counting radiation, burn, and cancer deaths.

Hundreds of thousands to save 1 million.

There's the math.

That's what we find acceptable.

A quarter billion to bring peace to 10 billion, that's in that range, innit?

So, fuck moral arguments, the only thing seeming to stop it, is logistics.

The ones in the decision-making chain for such a thing would be the intended victims, and likewise, the people with the bombs get their paychecks signed by those people.

But let's magic-poof all those stubborn considerations of how our society is structured, the real difficult part would be in how to get everyone to the island for their cleansing.

I dunno, use all the aircraft carriers, cruise ships, and airplanes of the world, I think we could get it done.
In a couple years I bet.
Certainly wouldn't take a decade.

One flash of bright light, and life would actually cease sucking.

For about 25 minutes.

Dut damn, what a 25 minutes it'd be.

But...it wouldn't really take a nuke....

Bullets would do the job.

We've got enough, surely.

And it wouldn't really take killing them, the threat of bullets seems to keep most of them them in line.

Heck, not even bullets, the threat of a pulsating cock in prison keeps a lot of them in line.

And the worst of the lot seem to already be in prison.

So, all that one has to worry about are those pesky warlords, insurgents, and terrorists.

And....really only in the fucked up countries.

Yeah, America gets hit with something every ten years or so, but your chances of dying in that shit are equal to being hit by lightning, or bitten by a shark.

You're way more likely to die in a car accident.

Some of you won't fucking make it home tonight.

So, anyhoo, all of that shrinks the number of assholes you actually have to worry about back down to a hundred thousand or so.

And only a thousand of those are going to impact you directly.

And you're only going to meet a couple hundred of them in your lifetime.

And only 5-10 of them are going to potentially be violent.

The ones you really need to worry about, are the ones that effect your job.

But, they're not one of the ones you'll get to meet and lay hands on.

So....treat them like weather.

They're in their own little reality you can do nothing about.

That's the real good part, IMHO. You're never going to have the real monsters at your dinner table.

In America, anyway.

If you're in one of those fucked up countries...get the fuck out of there.

Hey, easy for me to say, yeah, but it's certainly got to be easier than getting the quarter billion assholes onto the island to get nuked.

Anyway, all of that is the silver lining.
"The world", doesn't suck, because the whole world isn't involved in the suckage.
Only that quarter billion minority.
And only a tiny minority of them are calling the shots.
And despite the right-wing paranoia, not all of the shot-callers are actually evil.
Hell, some governors and senators are actually decent.

So, really, the world of power-brokering assholes is a separate little world you don't really have to concern yourself with.
They mostly harm each other.
Like the mafia.

You and the rest of the majority of the planet are just trying to live their little lives.

Except for those assholes in traffic.

And the dipshits who vote for dipshits.

And the dipshits who exploit the dipshits who vote for dipshits.

And the dipshits who exploit the dipshits who vote for dipshits with appeals to bigotry based on superstitious nonsense.

...but really, more the first two, and they tend to be the same people.

And they only effect you in a material way in traffic.

The second, third, and fourth are only theoretically psychologically damaging.

And really only because they're theoretically trying to get people killed with their shit-stirring.

And...how successful are they really gonna be?
It's a lower risk than even terrorism.

You still only have to worry about the assholes in traffic.

Really, that fear-monger shit is only gonna bother you because you gotta see 'em on TV, or hear 'em at the watercooler.

And the TV has buttons.

So, you really only have to put up with watercooler idiots.

And technology has the solution for that too.

So, fuck 'em.

And if businesses would finally as one wake up to the whole work-from-home deal, you wouldn't even have to put up with traffic and water coolers.

So, the days of putting up with little red cars, and cooler-Nazis are numbered.

So....

What, me worry?