THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

THE FIRST STEP TO WISDOM IS TO STOP BEING A DAMNED FOOL | 2003-12-06

Get up off your stomach! Stop trying to find somebody to be wildly grateful to.

Demand more! Don't try to Understand why the poor government can't help. Don't tell yourself that everybody deserves big money for sitting in a big office. What have they done for us LATELY?

They sure as hell got PAID lately. So what did they DO lately? Gathering cobwebs and seniority and what they call Experience won't do us any good.

So let's stop paying for it.

Every time you want to know why you aren't safe on the street, the government tells you about its programs in Southeast Gooboobyland and what you owe to All Mankind.

Please, please stop being a fool.

Fools get robbed. Fools get lied to. Fools get cheated. Fools get everything we keep complaining that we are getting.