40% Furious, 50% Sad, 10% hopeless

[steveisgood]

A recent trip to Toronto provided a sobering reminder who I am, and what my station in life is.

Before my party's destination (a fantastic book sale at UofT) , we took a bit of a sightseeing tour through Forest Hill, Toronto's mega-wealthy district which is full to the brim of Israel zionism.  When I was a child, it was a bit of a fun time to drive

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[captain79]

You can fuck off, but then there is no hope that you can make the situation in Ontario any better. Of course, Zionists will be relieved, but the rest of us will be sadled with the work of keeping/making Ontario beautiful.

And you can be angry, but reading your last two entries makes me think you might be running the risk of a heart attack or aneurysm...

[steveisgood]

The zionists don't know I exist (and by "I", I mean the royal "I"), but moreover, I see no reason why I should care for a province that doesn't care about me or my family, and it never has. Ontario is not beautiful, for its beauty is being sold out/privatized/destroyed.

As for my recent trend towards fury at a system (and lets be sure, it IS a system) that routinely votes against its own interest....if I do have a heart attack or an aneurism, Ontario, with its slashed health care it the last place I want to be in Canada. Well, I suppose virtually any first-nations community might be a worse place to be than Ontario.

My education has made me far more enlightened than I otherwise would have been, but it also has made me sad. very, very sad. Ignorance is NOT bliss. Still, I'd rather know and be sad/mad, than not know and allow myself to be taken advantage of.

[yllis]

Where will you go where these same things aren't happening?

[steveisgood]

that's the real trick, isn't it? MAYBE the east coast where its not so obvious. MAYBE British Columbia where people have a more enlightened and progressive outlook on government/politics. Maybe not. Maybe this country is so regressive that I'm kidding myself if I think the grass is greener anywhere else. If that's the case, then this place is the best I can get in Canada.

This is why I'm sad.

[captain79]

The east coast and British Columbia have plenty of their own bullshit and presuming there is less in ANY place is unrealistic. British Columbia might be a better place for you, but not because it is without B.S. I would say that B.C. has tons of B.S

[steveisgood]

people have called me a cynic before, to which I adamantly exclaim I'm not. A cynic is someone who goes into a situation expecting the worse. Originally, I expected things to turn out for the better....that if I studied hard and worked hard, eventually, things would come around.

But I'm a realist, and the reality is that this is a culture that does not value work...it values investing. It does not value debate....it values acquiescence.

I'm not suggesting that there is no BS outside of Ontario, but this particular Ontario-brand of financial caste system I have no use for, and I want out. I'm not naive, and I'm not conspiratorial. I fucking know what I'm talking about, I'm right, and never before have I wished I was wrong.

Friends and family bring me happiness, this is true, but it makes it that much more difficult to digest when I see the same thing happening to them.

[m4n3k1_n3k0]

alberta is hiring. ^_^

speaking personally, i figure i have no right to comment on other people's wealth. i know i'm a slacker, and i have very little ambition. i know there's a lot of other people out there who bust their balls to keep their family afloat... i have two friends of mine who are single mothers... and here i am happily lazing by with my sole output being to keep the cat fed. and i'm happy. ^_^

i don't want more for my life, and i'm not going out of my way to get it. but i also am not knocking others for their lives.

plus.. ^_^ figure that in 40 years, we'll all be dead. *laughs*

gotta go, best get in another attempt at beating Mike Tyson again. gotta remember to dodge right when he blinks!

[yllis]

"alberta is hiring. ^_^"

That's usually my line, being in Calgary and all... :P

... but I figure the fact that it's a predominantly conservative, wealth-driven, oil-hungry province, Steve would be more livid more often here. ^_^; (but I bet the Chapters' pays better here!)

[m4n3k1_n3k0]

*grin*

agreed. ^_^