the blind leading the dumb…
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Everything in life is arranged in a hierarchy. Your family, friends, school, work, and many others.
Even the mentally unstable have their own system. When they take a break from being politicians and visit the Happy Place<tm>, they have a strict code that may not be visible to the casual observer. The depressed pick on the bipolars, claiming that the bipolars are trying to one-up them. The suicidal people would be right there with the depressed but they’re otherwise occupied. The multiples (or some of them) pick on just about everybody. And everybody picks on the schizophrenics. This is not at all helpful, as the schizophrenics already think everyone (and everything) is talking about them.
The weirdness, of course, does not stop there. I just came across an even more bizarre example. Get ready… I’m talking ufo research. A certain segment of the population would opine that the concept of ufo research is just plain nuts in itself (great, lefty…. turn off 75% of your readers right off the bat).
Well you’ve got to know that I’m pretty interested in ufo’s. I don’t do research; I just read and listen when I can. It’s a fascinating topic, even if you don’t believe in them. There’s way too much evidence out there to deny that there are many different types of flying machines motoring about the skies, about which we know nothing. And that’s the literal definition - flying objects which we cannot identify. Unfortunately the term UFO has become more of a slur than a definition over many years.
I enjoy listening to Black Vault Radio. John Greenwald, Jr, has the largest collection of documents acquired via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) anywhere. The site is not limited to ufo’s. The segment I listened to this evening featured a fellow who believes that ufo’s and their occupants are not alien; they’re fallen angels, guiding the `abductees’ back to Jesus.
My immediate reaction to this was `HUH?’ I realized at once that this was unspeakably ironic, but my reactions are mine and I have to own them.
I felt like a depressed person picking on a bipolar…
8 Comments
Dave Zielesch
September 14th, 2008
at 8:31pm
I think your nickname pretty much represents it all, “lefty.” I think you’re an amusing writer, so don’t try going too deep:…. It just doesn’t fit your profile.
leftystrat
September 14th, 2008
at 9:24pm
I dunno, Dave.. you sound like one of those dexter-ists. Do you have a PROBLEM with left-handed people? Did your mother take your spoon and force you to use it with your left hand? Did your teachers tie your right hand behind your back? Did the nuns whack your right hand with a ruler? :)
Thanks for the kind words. Stop by again.
Dave Zielesch
September 15th, 2008
at 10:48am
Don’t be so defensive, Lefty. I am ambidextrous. A formal education at the piano will do that to you. I was actually referring to your philosophical and possibly even political leanings and NOT your preference of handwriting or table style. I also suppose that my compliment to you regarding your style of writing did not get past your “leanings.” It was NOT meant to be critical OR nasty. Apologies if you took it that way……. Dave
leftystrat
September 15th, 2008
at 10:57am
Dave - I was being silly. Doesn’t always come across.
I still want a left-handed piano.
I don’t want the direction reversed - I want the right and left halves switched.
I learned the hard way that piano isn’t the instrument for me. Ever see a guitar player attack a piano? It’s not pretty :) I couldn’t get it through my head that you can’t bend a piano note, no matter how hard you try. Vibrato cannot be attained by wiggling the key right and left. And you can’t make it distort by turning it up.
Politics: libertarian.
I never heard of philosophy having an orientation. Can you fill me in please?
Dave Zielesch
September 15th, 2008
at 1:56pm
Leftystrait:
You may indeed have a left handed piano: Wear an accordian upside down. As for a piano vibrato or tremelo, buy a theatre organ, set the string stops up, brass and reeds down, turn UP the tremelo/vibrato and have at it. THAT’s as close as you’re going to get to tweaking the constant, clear tone of a piano. I HOPE that when you say: “Guitar player attack a piano” you are painting a picture of the feeble attempts of a git-fiddle player at the piano and NOT the physical assault on some stationary, helpless baby grand with wood and strings attached. If affirmative, then YES. I have and NO,…. it is pretty darned ugly. Doesn’t sound good, either.
As for philosophy: Of COURSE it has orientation. Philosophy comes from MAN. No man is the same. Orientation is implied by the mere suggestion that it is discussed, debated and even argued by men & women. It cannot HELP but have orientations beyond even controls. In the meantime, you are doing fine, Lefty. Keep the faith, my friend…………
Bobzilla
September 15th, 2008
at 5:19pm
I think both you guys need HELP!
leftystrat
September 15th, 2008
at 5:26pm
Bob - that’s the nicest thing anybody’s said to me in days!
[suspiciously] Hmmm…. I wonder what he wants.
Dave Zielesch
September 15th, 2008
at 5:26pm
A guy with a handle like “Bobzilla” thinks “I” need help?