The World Is Not Enough: PART ONE
Sam Sykes ~ 11/14/2024
The motto on James Bond’s family crest reads “The World Is Not A Enough”, demonstrating the family’s uncompromising morals valued wholly over the material world. Today, I think the motto has taken on a different meaning, representing the unquenchable thirst of angry groups of “marginalized” people. Capitulation is the worst thing you can do when confronted by the ‘mob’, they will only want more. Any concession or attempt to rectify actions deemed ‘problematic’ by the mob, are swiftly met with more severe demands. Bow down to the powers that be, and they’ll never let you up.
ENABLIN’
Lots of these concessions are really just weak responses to bad behavior that is hurting the community. In Los Angeles’ Skid Row, and other drug-addled areas of America’s cities, government-subsidized nonprofits are handing out needles, crack pipes, and other drug paraphernalia branded as harm reduction tools. There was a news report this past week that identified the negative impacts of these handouts. Drug abusers are simply selling the free drug materials to get more drug money. It doesn’t solve the issue of drug abuse, it enables it.
In other doped-up shitholes throughout the country, safe injection sites have been created to help free drug abusers from the risk and consequences of overdoses. This sounds like a good idea when you first hear it, but where does it stop? How much should the government remove the consequences of drug abuse? At this rate, it won’t be long before they are giving addicts cars, apartments, and jobs that they can’t be fired from. The loudest voices in the drug enabler industry are always complaining that the city and government are not doing enough to help the addicts. What do they suggest? Counseling? Rehabilitation? Support Groups like N.A.? Nope, just more ways of facilitating poison into people’s veins. It seems like the only plan is to push these people to rock-bottom and hope they realize it before they die. Not the most compassionate approach if you ask me.
THE MIRACLES OF FLIGHT
Every time I fly, I feel like one of those uncontacted tribes down in the Amazon seeing any form of modern technology for the first time. I am amazed that humans, who are basically just fancy monkeys, were able to understand things like lift, combustion engines, global navigation systems, and sustained flight. We should have great reverence when we’re sitting comfortably and enjoying some peanuts on one of these metal beasts soaring through the sky at 500 miles per hour. We should sit in these tubes like church pews, but instead treat it like a crammed waiting room. There’s always people taking off their shoes and putting them up on the seats. Kids are usually well-behaved, but some children are really horrible on flights. I can understand the rambunctiousness of kids on a long flight, but any quick domestic flight should have purely reverent behavior. A staple on every flight in America is a foreigner boarding the plane with ten grocery store bags filled with a bunch of shit that could just go in a single suitcase. These are usually the same people that blitz to the front of the plane as soon as the wheels touch the runway, creating a frenzy of line jumping and traffic jams in the aisle. You paid for the shitty seat in the back, stay there motherfucker! It’s not enough that we have connected the world by a few comfortable hours, it’s never enough.
HOW ABOUT YOU’RE WELCOME?
I’m always surprised at the people denouncing gentrification, but then again, it’s never from the people in the community, just scholars and academics bitching from afar. I think it’s fair to say that when land gains value in a previously impoverished area, it can definitely push low-income renters out as a consequence. Though, we should remember that there is always a place for low-income people to move without any real discernible change in quality of life. The positives for some of the low-income people is the expansion of job opportunities and dramatic decreases in crime. Critics would argue that most of the new jobs are for rich, educated people moving into the community, and that’s absolutely true for a percentage of the population, but when money floods into an area it overwhelmingly helps hard-working people living there. Academics argue that a job as an assistant manager at a Starbucks is not helping the community, but it's a huge step up for the father of three with no health insurance that has been collecting scrap metal for a living. It would be hell on earth for the silver spoon assholes running the universities, but for the father, it’s an elevator to the middle class. He can afford to stay in the community now and send his kids to a well-funded school in a safe area. He’s on his way to making his grandchildren those silver-spoon dickheads. Because bringing in money, jobs, and safety is not enough, the mob demands that the gentrifiers implement rent controls and handouts for everyone in the community. A great way to hurt the competent low-income citizens hungry for a professional challenge.
IT’S ALL RAPE
At face value, the #MeToo movement of the late 2010s was a necessary reckoning of the gross Hollywood culture of sucking dick for movie parts. Harvey Weinstein was taken down and publicly exposed for his sexual assaults. Despite the deserved takedown of Weinstein, the whole movement morphed into something quite disingenuous. Even the name “MeToo” has a very narcissistic and spotlight stealing energy behind it. I mean why not call it something that encompasses the coming together sexual assault victims to fight against the predators that preyed on them? Where this movement changes into a broken, “The World Is Not Enough” problem, is when men that really didn’t deserve to be attacked were having their careers destroyed. The whole idea of “power” over women is stupid when you can’t prove a direct link. They just think that because a rich guy banged his secretary it is equivalent to rape. It’s offensive and demeaning to all actual rape and sexual assault victims when their experiences are trivialized by the most retarded claims imaginable.
Take Louis C.K. for instance, the guy got in trouble for jerking off in front of chicks. While that’s definitely weird, and I can imagine that watching a fat ginger wank away would be pretty gross, it does not constitute sexual assault. The “victims” were consenting women of age that were just looking for their chance at a payday.
Photographer Terry Richardson lost his career during the #MeToo movement for similar bullshit allegations. The claim is that he used his “power” over some of his models to coerce them into sex, but how do you prove something like that? An even better question is: How do hang an entire man’s livelihood and career on unproven allegations? The women accusing him, whose looks (and modeling careers) died out long ago, have everything to gain and nothing to lose by attacking a man like Richardson.
CONTINUE TO PART TWO HERE
