Showing posts with label Playing Nice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Playing Nice. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Wrong But Real, Right But Imaginary

No one should perish in shocking and horrible trauma but, realistically, that will never stop occurring
Lives of exemplary sacrifice must certainly find their reward, but throughout history, they have not
We seem genetically programmed to make sense of things tho far too often there is none to be found
Cruel dictators should justly be punished in the end, but mostly they die peacefully, in their sleep

Keepers of the true faith should not be financially and sexually corrupt, but that will never change
We put off many things until we have more time but, guess what: They will remain forever undone
No innocent child should suffer cruelly from a malignancy, but it is statistically certain that she will
It seems like all men should be created equal yet it will always be, but for His grace that, There I go

Its unquestionably wrong that our seniors are targeted for scams but someone’s always ready to do it
Clearly those who take care of themselves should enjoy long healthy lives, yet often they die young
Our minds evolved to seek reason and meaning in all events, but then god works in mysterious ways…
Corporate success should require higher moral standards, but most top CEOs are empty sociopaths

Those in positions of trust and control must never violate their charges, yet it only happens every day
No one denies that the elderly should be stores of wisdom but we simply discard them as irrelevant
It’s not right for us to mortgage our children’s futures on temporary pleasures but we just can’t stop
The rich should find comfort in their wealth, but only getting richer satisfies them – and just briefly

You shouldn’t treat your mother and sisters as saints and all other women as whores, but you do!
Certainly virtue must be its own reward but all too often that reward is simply poverty and scorn
Amoral greed should not be a prerequisite to financial success, but you need only look up the ladder
Years of allegiance to some sports franchise should be rewarded by a championship: That was a joke

Good products should not require lies and exaggeration to sell but since everybody else does it…
Assuredly lives of pious and long-suffering poverty yield a place in God’s house. Right...sure they do
Darling little boys would never torture kittens but guess what…they also mature into mass shooters
Noble scientists do not fudge data or results but BigPharma studies are quite often rigged in advance

Banks shouldnt hedge against deliberately bad funds they sell to their clients, but they’ll do it again
Happiness should be independent of phony marketing media stereotypes but, sadly for us, it is not
Religion should never be used to rationalize hatred and violence, however, that’s what they all do
The rains should come and the snows should fall but depressingly, now we see it’s not true anymore

Hungry gold miners should never poison the land with mercury but still...It is the cheapest way
Newborn fawns should get a chance to get on their feet, yet if a predator should see them…
Bankruptcy must not be a way to more easy credit but just take a look at your moocher neighbors
We like to think we’ll live happily ever after but often we die very soon after our forced retirement

It’s not fair that women cannot preach while abstinent priests enjoy each other and their choir boys
The blessed free market should prevent demand-driven extinctions but instead that’s what it fosters
You should have time for the important things you’ve always put off but most die senile and drugged
The evil and immoral is often the reality while the moral, good and right is just a snowflake’s tale

Friday, January 3, 2014

Faking Political Correctness


I finally heard, and sometimes even heed, an inner voice saying that its a good time to just shut up
But really, I’m only acting nice, trying to avoid the guilt and shame that follows useless confrontation
So, don’t mistake my thoughtful silence for quiet acceptance – actually, I’m just being kind to myself
And as I nod while you speak, please understand it only means I hear you: Definitely not that I concur

You must realize that I have learned if I can’t say something agreeable, I will say something trivial
In fact, be quite sure that I’m just as likely silently and sarcastically damning you as supporting you
And if I quietly change the subject to something neutral, it’s only to avert a useless, angry escalation
Fact is, I’m simply being nice to avoid being sullied by wasting my own foolish adrenaline on nothing

Be advised I am not really nice, I am not very friendly and I often find your canned opinions repulsive
But I am striving to remain non-confrontational, just trying to avoid any angry but worthless flare-ups
I just want to remain nice and soft, like cottage cheese or tepid oatmeal, at least in your opinion
Please note that, really, I wouldn’t mind confronting you in my very harshest loud and angry tones

So, yeah, I’m being nice with unruffled feathers, staying all like politically correct instead of cursing
Offering what I hope appears as neutral silence rather than pointedly telling you exactly what I think
But even though now you know, dont you dare to confront me or we’ll brand you as a nonteam player
Let’s get thru our mandatory interactions without overt anger and I’ll happily part, without any guilt

I will be most falsely-courteous and faux-friendly to you during our forced face time at big meetings
Since I’ve seen the power of being politely passively-aggressive I’ll only denounce you covertly
I just want for you to believe that I am being nice so we can avoid any friction on all the real issues
Slipping, I’ll apologize for misspeaking or say that I was misunderstood: But not sorry for what I said

Trust me, I chafe under all this enforced politeness for it forces me to swallow my own vile hypocrisy
Still, it beats being soaked in bitter and guilty recrimination for many days after each confrontation
And I’m also being nice to avoid the real concealed weapons of all the personal liberty zealots I cross
Don’t want to take a bullet from a road-raged freedom lover goaded on by his far-too-personal savior

I’m being nice to keep my blood pressure down and my criminal record clean - Not to appease you
No need to worry, though, cause I’m no back-biting, tattletale puke ready to stab you in the back But dont even be surprised when decisions made privately on big projects deny your empty blustering
Yet hopefully you find out later I detested you and your little friends but for now: See my fake smile

I'm absolutely not preaching violence but being nice doesn’t mean I support your silly, vain agenda
I’m not being nice to win your friendship, trust or co-operation: It’s for my own selfish peace of mind
I also know it does no good to call you out to your politically correct, simply rule-enforcing manager
So, don’t you think I am smiling with you cause I’m really chuckling at your loud and ignorant pride

Been thru too many embarrassing after-situations and humiliating post-confrontations to speak up
It’s not worth it to act out for 5 minutes when the guilty payback lasts 5 weeks and nothing changes
But, observing your latest outburst, I derive a real satisfaction knowing it was not me this time
So though your foolish bullshit spoils any teamwork, I wont lose any sleep - Because I am Being Nice