Posted by alexandra_k on June 19, 2018, at 21:45:55
In reply to Re: government employees, posted by alexandra_k on June 19, 2018, at 3:47:28
it is writing philosophy. it is not good for me. i knew that. that was why i didn't want to do it anymore. why i didn't want to make a career of it.
there are all these people who want to do it. who want nothing more than to do it. let THEM do it, then. maybe their work sucks a bit, if they are early career. that's life. they'll grow, eventually. there really isn't any shortage at all of people who want to do it. far more people are far more capable than who ever get to do it, blah blah blah blah blah blah. what was it, around 300 people for 18 places and so on...
it isn't good for me. it gets me ruminating on all the sh*tt*ng things about the world. it brings out the worst in me.
but nobody listens to me. nobody listens to me say what is good for me. or, if they listen they think it is fun to use that information to make sure precisely the opposite gets to be the case in my life...
becaue they think they know what is best for me. or for them. or whatever... and they seem totally uninterested in seeing what i could actually do in something that i actually want to do... because they know better, clearly. of course they do. amazing job they are doing of all it is that they do...
and the people just can't kill themselves fast enough.
another philosopher... he was wonderful. a decent person. a very gifted philosopher. here didn't appreciate him, at all. i mean, really, the people here don't seem capable of appreciating just how talented he was, at all. and just what a decent person and how helpful and kind he was to everyone... he was overseas for a while but he reckoned he wasn't given enough to be able to afford to live in a way so as to be happy. so he came back here and was a public servant for a while and i think heroin overdose. i think that was happened. not publicised, of course, but i think he decided he'd had enough.
i don't think he asked for too much.
people were just jealous of him and took special delight in his demise. i really do beleive that's so.
people like to revel in the sh*t, here. the inter-generational poverty here involves peoples houses getting flooded each and every year several times with sh*t from teh sewers. i guess so long as the insurance companies rule it an 'act of god' then it's okay becaues it's only supposed to be temporary. the council looks at building some f*ck*ng tacky ugly piece of sh*t statue by the harbour just to remind the tourists that dunedin is an ugly sh*t hole of a town on their way in... but the money goes to that rather than to fixing up the sewers.
who wants to stick around to do a degree in 'public health'? to be failed if you point out that the foundation of public health is clean drinking water not contaminated by sewerage.
there's no point talking, here.
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