Kings Full of Jaks

I am appalled.  I speak now from a state of somewhat shock.  I feel gross.  I have the perspective of a high school drop out.  Really.  I'm not proud of that at all.  It has over the years filled me with great shame.  Which I see that is the point now.  Guilt your fellow man.  Guilt him and shame him if he is different.  It works.  It really does. 

So we all can now wear masks.  Masks put on me by you and you by me.  Do you feel free from the judgement of your neighbor?  Are you free of all judgement except that of God like the collective claim?  Or do you keep quiet?  Constantly wearing the mask I put upon you.  Fearing a mans judgement is worthless.  Fearing a gods judgement?  Is that worthless?  How about your own judgement?  The judgement of your own self.  Is that worthless?  I guess I only wonder where we hold our own value?  High or Low.  What are the standards coming to in this crazy mess of a world? 

The more that I open my eyes to become aware of my surroundings the more I'm filled with surprise.  Surprise at the sheer manipulation of my way of life.  Surprise at the status quo's acceptance of lack luster mediocrity at all facets of human life.  I mean look at your media friends.  Look what they are serving you these days.  You've accepted a false notion that these people that dictate your talking points are worthy of your trust in all things.  I don't think that it's a left or right argument anymore. 

Our media has been bought out.  The television programming that you see is not genuine nor authentic.  It is a literal propaganda giant.  It is very close to insulting my High School drop out intelligence.  This is why I don't watch T.V.  I do admit.. I do entertain myself with music and the Internet.  I just refuse to sit and watch a salesman in the middle of my room sale me cars, candy, cell phones, and worst of all... IDEAS.  They will not sale me ideas.  Why would I allow that?  We have the Internet now so I'd much rather get my news and knowledge from where I consider a trusted source. 

So again with the guilt.  I feel it coming from you.  Coming from your judgement of me.  Today there was a very bold move by our officials to ban online-poker.  Essentially taking away my right to play a game of voluntary skill.  A game that every man is spending his own hard earned money to play.  See the money that man spends to play a recreational voluntary card game is HIS money.  Now we are essentially claiming that  a citizen with rights, doesn't have the right to spend his own money on what he would like to spend it on? 

Makes complete sense to me.... until I start thinking about the $50 lottery tickets these same people advertise.  Lottery is really a gamble.  Really, the odds are on the house.  Where as with poker everybody is playing other players who are paying a rake to a business to facilitate the game... A game of skill... Voluntarily. 

So what's next for me?  Well, I suppose it'll be the temporary slave temp service.... where I can work for 3 months and get laid off just before benefits come in.  But wait, I'm a high school drop out.  No degree.  Oh yeah... There's the guilt again.  Maybe I'll go back and just get my diploma.  Then head to college for my higher education.  You only have to go in debt 80 or 90 thousand to get a decent starting wage.  Well.. I could play poker... whooops.. Sorry John.  That's illegal too now.  There's the guilt again. 

Paint me into the criminal you want.  But you don't have to, your leaders will do that for you.  Your Gods.  Your little celebs.  Your little corporate whore slaves.  John Stewart and Stephen Colbert will appease you on the left.  Rush and O'Reilly on the right.  You'll play the roles that they cast you in.  You are the show now.  You are the circus.  Oprah will tell whoever watches her what to think.  Then you'll listen to your little whore rap music.  The new propaganda with a beat style shit.  Maybe play some video games.  Garbage.  It's accepted everyday.  Unbelievable.  I mean really... you think it's good for your kids to even see half the shit they got out there now.  Tell me Justin Bieber isn't real.  Tell me that our standards haven't dropped that low.

If it's a piece of shit... Then call it a piece of shit.  Come back to reality.  Don't let people insult your intelligence with rediculousness anymore.  You are just people man.  Common Sense has been replaced by NON Sense.  For real.  We are human beings.  With a conscience.  With a brain.  We can solve problems.  We can figure out what's real and what's not just by looking a bit beneath the surface of any matter.

 I sat in my home and taught myself how to play a card game.  No coach.  Just books and videos.  I've been chewed up by public schools. I've been chewed up by Unions, chewed up by factory work, as a last result I went to online poker to try and grind out just a meager living of my own.  Now it seems that I've been chewed up by the work of Tyrants once again. 

At least I always have music. 

John Quest