One of the daily problems for a significant number of people is going to
defecate (yes, defecating. Here we don´t use euphemisms) to one of these places
where people go to, let´s say, to do... mmm, their needs (you
get the point. Excuse me, but the issue blushes me). I
would say that there is little literature about the various ways to avoid
getting a deadly disease in these bacteriological fleshpots.
Magrathea of thought
Sunday, September 2, 2012
The media-textile empire of Fox News and tight underpants
It is known that this empire has
conditioned all governments since the beginnings of time. Or at least since it
was created. All the media controlled by Fox chooses to broadcast bad news
against the government running the country if they don´t give them some
advantageous concessions. Alternately, it shuts up when the opposite occurs. In
this way, it manages which current affaires arrive to the public opinion arena.
Some people, including me, tend to criticize the way Fox and other media conglomerates manage how people feel by choosing a positive or negative outlook of the reality. However, very few stops to think why Fox can affect people´s mood with bad news. That was the case until today.
Some people, including me, tend to criticize the way Fox and other media conglomerates manage how people feel by choosing a positive or negative outlook of the reality. However, very few stops to think why Fox can affect people´s mood with bad news. That was the case until today.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
How to detect idiots. Issue 1 – Their behavior in a queue(part 2):
The basics on this topic was presented in Part 1. Now, here there are some examples of how these people behave in everyday situations:
Saturday, August 25, 2012
How to detect idiots. Issue 1 – Their behavior in a queue(part 1):
This section seeks to provide a very valuable instrument to readers. Knowing
whether a person who you see daily is an idiot or not is a simple thing to do. Furthermore,
this knowledge comes to us spontaneously, almost inadvertently. However,
we have the misfortune of living in society with thousands of idiots around us who
condition our lives whether we want it or not. Due
to the huge amount of morons that inhabit planet earth, is impossible, first, to
be all the time at ease, without caring about
them and, secondly, to be constantly evaluating whether the person we are about
to come across in the street is or not an asshole.
In this state of things, my goal is to share my knowledge on how to quickly
identify an idiot. In
this case I will refer to an everyday situation: standing in line to buy
something, to ask for information, to get on a bus, etc, etc, etc.
Friday, August 24, 2012
The triumph of the captains of industry over the administrative unionism
It is known that the capitalists from all around the world have sought new
ways to limit the power of protest of workers. In southeast Asia, it was
achieved with outright repression; in the USSR, there was no need to repress
“because we were all equal” (yeah, right); in the U.S. through Fordism and the
disqualification of jobs, and in Argentina by declaring bankruptcy and moving
the factory to the south of Brazil or Uruguay.
However, all these strategies were used in initial stages of the development of the capitalist era. Once these tricks were defeated by years and years of union struggle, which made those bureaucrats in Washington more receptive to the protests of the communists unions than to the feelings of true Americans, the choices of our business friends to get great profits overnight were reduced sharply. That's when they had to start racking their brains.
However, all these strategies were used in initial stages of the development of the capitalist era. Once these tricks were defeated by years and years of union struggle, which made those bureaucrats in Washington more receptive to the protests of the communists unions than to the feelings of true Americans, the choices of our business friends to get great profits overnight were reduced sharply. That's when they had to start racking their brains.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
The most despicable beings in the universe - Issue I: Those who walk at a speed similar to ours
This section, I think, will be very popular since it is devoted to
criticizing unpopular characters or social categories.
For the first issue, we have a very negligible entity to which one can
dislike about 5 minutes tops but, at the same time, it is very hard not to come
across it at least once a day… every day. Yes, you guessed, we're talking about
people who walk at +/- 5% of our speed.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Intro
Magrathea is a fictional planet that
appears in the literary saga The Hitchhiker´s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas
Adams. In this planet, other plantes were manufactured for very rich people.
Whoever had the money to pay for one, could have a tailor made planet.
Eventually, the business went down
when an economic crisis took place. Therefor, all Magrathea´s inhabitants
decided to get into chambers that would keep them alive and sleep until the
business recovered.
In our days, no thought is
manufactured whatsoever, and from there it comes the name of this blog. The
little thought that we can find is thrown away as something useless, and,
supposedly, we are all in the same condition to talk about whatever we want;
nobody is interested in learning from the rest and, hence, no one is respected
for what they can teach. I don´t aspire to write about anything very deep, but
if I do so, it would be in an ironic and superficial way. My sole intention is
to show someone that using your brain can be fun, even when you think of stupid
things. In this way, since we don´t use our neurons to solve human kind´s
problems, we can try to deal with them with a cool actitude.
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