Mediocrity

First post,

I’d assume things will get a bit more organized and fluid as this blog develops. It’s a possibility, however, my experiences have taught me to proceed with low expectations. Pessimistic? Call it what you want, but I find I’m a lot less disappointed in general with this attitude than otherwise. If I’m surprised then that’s great. But this leaves me with nothing but upside. And let’s face it, we’re constantly exposed to a lot more of the ‘wackness’ than the ‘dopeness’.

That could be because the standard is skewed more toward the right thing to do. There’s not a lot of room for above and beyond behavior because really, that should be characterized as the standard. You don’t get props for doing the right thing, because that’s what you should be doing. The standard should be doing the right thing, doing a good job, etc. You shouldn’t  get points for being decent relatively speaking. If you’re failing math at school but you’re the only one not selling crack to other kids, that still doesn’t make you any thing close to the ideal. Good for you, you don’t sell crack to middle school kids. You still suck at math.

For better or worse, I don’t think I can see it any other way. I don’t believe in rewarding incompetence and failure. With little kids, sure, let them have their childhood without the pressures of the expectations of success at everything that they do. But older kids? Hell yes. Why teach them anything at all if you’re going to give them some bullsh*t understanding of the way the truly competitive world works.

Here’s a good example; back in Januaray a Covenant School girls basketball team beat Dallas Academy 100-0. There was such outrage over this supposedly unsportsmanlike conduct that the Covenant School offered to forfeit the game. What?! Apparently it wasn’t enough and the COACH OF THE WINNING TEAM WAS FIRED!! Are you f*cking kidding me? Did they cheat? Did they spike Dallas’ water bottles with quualudes? No, they just smoked their opponents, which was what the f*ck they were supposed to do. And our society, that has been so dumbed down by the over sensitivity toward other peoples feelings, punished them for it.

I can’t say this loud enough. F*CK THAT SH*T!!! How the f*ck else is Dallas Academy going to fully learn the lesson that they have no business playing basketball than from the full on ass kickery they received? Why, as a society, do we insist on coddling the lowest common denominators, the losers, the weakest links? What favor do you think we bestow on these f*ckups by telling them that they played well and doggone it, they are just as good as the victors? Cause let me tell you something that is unquivocally true, they are NOT anywhere close to as good. You know how I know. The godammn score, that’s how. See, the score is a nice emperical way of determing worth in that particular match. When you can’t score a single basket over the course of a game, the score tells you that when it comes to basketball, you suck balls!

Failure gives you two options; get better or get out. When you sugar coat that sh*t then you give people unrealistic expectations. That  leads to the losers not finding their true calling and staying with something that they aren’t any good at. But what’s even worse is that the winners feel guilty about their success. In the end, we produce a society mired in total mediocrity.

That my friends has become the American status quo. That is why my expectations hover around ground zero. And this is the sort of ranting that will be the norm on this blog. If it isn’t your cup of tea, then go the f*ck somewhere else because I certainly won’t cow tow to your desire for sunshine up the ass sensibilities.