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Moron Madness
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
We’re back from our vacation in Wildwood. I hoped for more relaxation, but it wasn’t to be. I rode my bike most mornings. I walked miles on the boardwalk with my wife and kids. We played the Cape May par 3 golf course. I went deep sea fishing with my youngest son. I made it to the beach twice. We made it to the Shamrock a few times, but we had more fun on the outdoor deck at Westy’s Pub. Watching an 85 year old couple who were barely 4 feet tall dancing like they did in the 1950’s to current pop hits was worth the price of admission. The scene brought a smile to the faces of anyone in the vicinity.
I ate more pieces of white pizza from Mack’s than I can remember.
How I resisted getting more than one cup of peanut butter ice cream with chocolate jimmies at Kohr’s, I’ll never know.
We saw two outstanding displays of fireworks while we were there. The weekly fireworks are launched on the beach at my street, so we just need to go to the top deck or stand in the street to see the colorful display. The wind was blowing from the ocean, so the debris and ash floated onto our deck.
I always have mixed feelings about Wildwood. I love sitting on the deck early in the morning drinking my coffee and listening to the seagulls squawking. It is peaceful and relaxing sometimes. The weekends tend to be loud, with obnoxious day trippers invading. The paintball game on the boardwalk a block from my house perfectly describes the sights on the Wildwood boardwalk. Moron Madness (you shoot at a guy dressed up as Osama bin Laden) is an apt description for the Wildwood boardwalk.
It is tough to generalize about the thousands upon thousands of people walking/waddling on the Wildwood boardwalk. In the early morning hours, before 9:00 am, you see joggers, bikers, and mostly in-shape people on the boardwalk. This is the time when I find the boardwalk to be enjoyable. It’s quiet. The sun is coming up over the ocean. The dozens of tattoo parlors haven’t opened for business yet, and the freaks are at a minimum.
By 11:00 am the obese, tattooed, pierced, XXXL bathing suit wearing land whales have disconnected from their CPAP machines to hunt for donuts, soda and breakfast sandwiches.
No one is safe as the thundering herd shuffles along, blocking bikers and joggers, as they grapple for position in front of the Dunkin Donuts on the boardwalk at my block. As they breathlessly anticipate the enjoyment of inhaling a dozen chocolate donuts with sprinkles, the incessant Mr. Softee music from next door is whispering to them – come buy a triple fudge sundae for lunch. It’s only $3.49. How can you pass up that deal?
This is just the beginning of temptation for the thousands of morbidly obese blobs straining the wooden structure known as the Wildwood boardwalk. The boardwalk is a veritable smorgasbord of funnel cake, fried oreos, fried cheesecake, tornado fries, lemonade, curly fries, corn dogs, zeppolis, fudge, cotton candy, salt water taffy, ice cream waffles, churros, pizza topped with cheese fries, triple fudge sundaes, and of course a large diet coke. How can 300 pound women in bikinis pass up the opportunity to do some carbohydrate binging?
The funniest “upscale” purveyor of toxic junk food is Wildwood’s only French establishment – La Bakerie. Where else could you find a Nutella Crepe, S’mores Crepe, Fried Snickers, Fried Twix, or Fried Nutter Butter? It’s like you’re actually in Paris.
I can’t help it that I’m an observer. I observe businesses, vehicles, street signs, clothing choices, and the people wandering the vast swaths of ‘Murrica. Liberals, progressives, Obama lovers, and control freaks have a problem with my observations because they don’t believe any behavior, clothing choice, or life choice should be judged, scorned or ridiculed. What we have here is a failure to communicate. I see ignorant, stupid, obese people who make bad life choices every day. They reveal themselves by their actions and their appearance. They stand out like a sore obese thumb in Wildwood. As I’ve noted earlier, there are many normal people in Wildwood, but it appears abnormalcy is winning. The dichotomy is most apparent on the weekends and holidays.
The reason for this is quite simple. It costs $1,500 to $2,500 to rent a condo for a week in Wildwood. Only families with one or two working parents can afford to spend a week in Wildwood. This virtually eliminates black people. First off, there are few black two parent families. Secondly, there are even fewer black families with parents that work for a living. Therefore, you only see middle aged white parents and their kids strolling the streets and boardwalk during the week. When the weekend arrives Wildwood is inundated by day tripper white and black trash. Wildwood is the only free beach below Atlantic City. Stone Harbor, Sea Isle, Avalon, and Ocean City charge $5 or $6 per day per person to access their beaches. The Free Shit Army doesn’t like to pay, so they gravitate to Wildwood. Luckily, SNAP cards are not accepted at the food joints on the boardwalk, or Wildwood would look like West Philly.
I actually enjoy taking a jaunt on the boards during the weekend to make note of the freaks, land whales, rapper wannabes, and the ignorant unemployable tattooed masses. I don’t have to exaggerate one iota regarding the sights that threatened to burn my corneas. My wife and kids can confirm all of my observations. Why do 250 pound girls think they can pull off wearing a bikini? Is there no shame? You shouldn’t be banned from the beach because you’ve eaten yourself to the size of a hippo, but for christ sake wear a one piece bathing suit and a moo moo. Why are so many poor people so fat? The number of waddling morbidly obese unmarried women and their uncontrollable horde of bastard children is mind boggling. And why do these people find it amusing to feed seagulls on the boardwalk creating havoc and a bird shit attack on innocent bystanders? Do they have no sense of decorum or civility? Anyone who feeds a seagull on the boardwalk is an outright idiot.
Idiots abound during the weekends in Wildwood. Moron madness sums it up nicely. The proliferation of tattoos amongst the ignorant is astounding. I certainly can understand soldiers getting a tattoo on their arm representing their unit or service as a form of comradeship. I understand motorcycle club members identifying themselves by a distinct common tattoo. But young girls with multiple tattoos on their legs, arms, necks, and backs is revolting and stupid. We saw an attractive young girl at the Shamrock bar with a full leg tattoo. When my wife saw it close up while in the restroom, she noticed it was faces of ghouls and vampires. What happened in her childhood to lead her to deform herself in such a manner? It reminds me of cattle being branded by farmers, except the cattle are human beings being herded and corralled by their government keepers and they brand themselves.
I’m baffled as to why so many people feel the need to mutilate their bodies. These are lower class people with limited financial resources. Some of them have thousands of dollars worth of ink deforming their bodies. The combination of ignorance, illiteracy, mathematical incompetence, and no self respect is a toxic mixture destined to keep these people trapped in poverty and unemployable. I have a theory about why the poor feel the need to tattoo themselves. We live in an egocentric facebook culture where everyone is competing to be noticed. People are desperate for attention. The rich don’t get tattoos. They drive BMWs. They wear Rolex watches. They wear Armani suits. They live in McMansions. The poor can’t afford bling, real estate, or luxury cars. But they can finance tattoos with their credit card. The easily led, ignorant, lemming like masses are just following the lead of the other ignorant masses. You can’t teach stupid.
The funniest aspect of the boardwalk is the tramcar – I hear “watch the tramcar please” in my sleep. After wolfing down a few fried oreos, washed down by a 32 oz lemonade, the tattooed masses hail down the tramcar to drive them the ten blocks to their motel rooms. They are too ignorant to understand the irony of being transported on something called the Boardwalk.
There is nothing particularly wrong with the people enjoying themselves on the Wildwood boardwalk. They aren’t bad people. They aren’t committing crimes. They are spending money and keeping the economy going. But, I can pretty much guarantee you that not one of these people has ever visited The Burning Platform or would even understand the issues we debate every day. They are willfully ignorant. They don’t want to think about hard stuff. They have been dumbed down by our public education system. They have become obese by eating the toxic frankenfood peddled by mega-corporations. I noticed one heifer with one of those ugly Apple iWatches on her immense wrist. Where do these supposedly poor people find $500 to waste on an egocentric useless bauble. Ignorant Americans are addicted to status symbols because their lives are so shallow and their intellects are deficient. True self worth comes from within, not from what you wear, drive, or paint on your body.
They have been brainwashed by their government with decades worth of propaganda that has sedated them, made them fearful of phantom terrorists, and supportive of blowing up people in foreign countries without a declaration of war. They actually believe the armed police forces roaming our streets kept us safe from a terrorist attack on the 4th of July. Their pea sized brains are unable to process the fact that more people have died in bathtub accidents since 9/11 then have died at the hands of terrorists. They don’t question, think or care about future generations. They don’t understand the long term financial implications of a country with $200 trillion of unfunded liabilities. They don’t even understand the term liability. It’s almost enough to make a man go to the Boardwalk Chapel and pray for the souls of the ignorant masses.
At least the merchants on the boardwalk are creative and retain a sense of humor. I’m sure some progressive politician from Washington D.C. would be offended by being told to grab a wiener. Or maybe in our new gay America, this joint would be celebrated by the LGBT community.
Coincidence or not? You decide.
Some boardwalk stores actually provide some hope. Teaching the masses on the boardwalk to disobey might take more than a shirt. I would estimate that 75% of the people strolling along the Wildwood boardwalk have never heard of Edward Snowden, let alone what he did. And of those who have heard of him, most buy the government storyline that he is a traitor. But 99.9% of these morons know the courageous story of Bruce Jenner’s transformation into a freak called Caitlyn. They are oblivious to the military industrial surveillance state they occupy. The militarization of local police forces doesn’t reach their radar screens. Miley Cyrus twerking videos are more important.
They have no worries about the fact that Obama and the captured corrupt politician snakes slithering around the halls of Congress have added $7.6 trillion to the national debt since 2009, a 75% increase in six years. They care not that their president uses drones to murder people in foreign countries. They think having troops in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and dozens of other countries around the world is keeping them safe. They are happily unaware that the American empire overthrows governments on a regular basis if they don’t do what we tell them to do.
It seems that everyone on the Wildwood boardwalk embraces the surveillance state. They all have tracking devices attached to their hands. Vacation used to mean leaving the office, disconnecting, relaxing, and recharging your batteries. With the proliferation of iGadgets, the masses have been trained by the Bernaysian propagandists to have the attention span of gnats. Rather than enjoying themselves on vacation, they have to prove to the world they are having fun. They “need” to check-in on Facebook. They must post selfies from the bar. They have to take a picture of their meal and tweet it to the world. The vacuous multitude are gloriously distracted from reality by their technological chains. The State is ecstatic, as the plebs wallow in bread and circuses (funnel cake & roller-coaster rides), and provide an electronic tracking signal for the NSA to exploit when necessary. The willfully ignorant masses will not disobey en-mass until they are no longer getting monthly government transfers, ATM machines stop spitting out $20 bills, and their credit cards come back declined.
After observing for too long, I needed a break. We had one particularly enjoyable walk that we captured in a few pictures. As you walk down the boardwalk towards North Wildwood the rides and games fade into the distance. It gets quieter and less congested. When we reached the end of the boardwalk we decided to keep going for another 15 blocks to The Rocks at 2nd & JFK Boulevard. There was no one on the path with us. It became quiet and peaceful. The moon was full and reflecting on the rippling waves of the Atlantic Ocean.
The sun was setting in the West providing an orange glow over the lighthouse and the bay in the distance.
The scene couldn’t have been more breathtaking. No people. No technological distractions. No noise pollution. Just the sea, the wildlife, the sand dunes, and a shining orb in the sky.
But then we had to walk back to reality. That is the dichotomy you experience in Wildwood. There is much to enjoy and savor, but it is overwhelmed by moron madness. I’ve come to believe that Aldous Huxley’s fears have been manifested on the boardwalk of Wildwood and across our entire nation. The masses don’t read books. We are inundated with so much useless information, we have been reduced to passivity and egotism. The truth is buried in a sea of irrelevance and our culture is based upon triviality. Our almost infinite desire for distractions and pleasure have produced a profoundly abnormal society. The ignorant masses are acting normally only in the context of living in a sick, demented, abnormal society.
“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. “Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.” They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.” ? Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
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If you define yourself by where you vacation you're probably a dick.
If Macks is like the original Mack and Manco's (now Manco's) in ocean city - I have to agree ... some of the best thin crust pizza ever.
Grew up in Jersey. Did summer vacations at the shore with my family even though we were one foot out of the poor house most of the time. My kids were born there. Glad we got the F out 20 years ago. Enjoyable read. Thanks Jim.
Quinn: Does your sweat smell better?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WsmSgBRUe4
I guess too many people recognize themselves, hence this articles 3.1 rating...
Fat, ugly, tattooed, poor people frequent Zerohedge. Who knew???
No tattoo, but guilty otherwise.
Uai!
Prohibit a couple having sex on the beach ...
Prohibit people from smoking cigarettes cool in service ....
Prohibit couples raise their children (giving a slap from time to time) ...
Prohibit people from taking alcohol when quizerem (in my time, each department head had a bottle of whiskey in the drawer to celebrate a victory).
This politically correct world is driving all crazy.
Bunch of morons!
: - /
Just watched the second time in his life:
The Guns of Navarone (1961).
Beautiful film.
Fiber shows us, not that morbid obesity.
These beautiful landscapes reminiscent Shangrilá (another movie - Lost Horizon).
hehe.
Okay, so the author is a bit pretentious at times - but his observation is spot on accurate.
Did you bother to speak to any of your targets in case they posessed some sort of actual intelligence or insight?
I didn't think so.
You just made sweeping generalizations from your superior perspective.
I'm not justifying thoughtless cow people here gorging on toxic waste sold as food, there are many of them and civilization as we know it or wanted to believe it is doomed - no doubt. Just jabbing at your generally insensitive screed as it was, in my opinion, rather uninformative and useless towards improving things.
There is no way to improve things. We're collapsing into oblivion. Some try to make it bearable by poking fun at the grotesque obese hordes. Just as some of the hideous herd laugh and joke about 9/11 truthers, preppers, organic food...
Off topic, but all important: I've noticed that if I spend an hour or so reading the comments on ZH before I go to some social event (where people can actually see and hear each other, and they are there for that purpose), I seem to be the life of the...event, as I'm loaded for bear with the hilarious and witty--and caustic as fuck, half the time--thoughts you all freely share.
Keep up the good work fellas: laughter and more better sex for all...
And as for Jim Quinn, I just "grazed" the article, but I'd say he's perfectly correct in his assessment, a little masochistic, and looking at about a 90 degree angle up at Jim Kunstler, who wouldn't take a shit on Jersey.
"The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning."
— Baudrillard
or maybe people simply moved on to internet
So, what you say is that the Free Shit Army are like Greeks? Making bad choices while they go along?
Sounds like a correct observation to me. The western world is f*cked.
The world is effed
NJ most of all.
I do have to ask, why do you holiday in such pathetic low brow touristy locales?
Obviously we have similar tourist hell holes here in Australia but I don't go near them.
A Citizen Scientist who goes by MVB paid a large amount of money for a real lab test on "fresh rainwater". He suspected that because of a dipping jet stream and the recent obvious atmospheric releases from Fukushima caught by "cam watchers" such as Majia and Nuchechen <sic> that he might get some hot rain.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/07/highly-radioactive-rainwate...
I can't believe anyone would actually pick New Jersey as a family vacation destination. Next month we are doing Rocky Mountain National Park with a few days backpacking off trail in the back country. We more than likely won't see another person during the backpacking part. It is constantly breathtaking out there. The fact this author thought it would be a good idea to go on this trip makes me think he has no idea how bad he has it.
" Next month we are doing Rocky Mountain National Park with a few days backpacking off trail in the back country."
Strange, this insistance of Americans to spend their holidays in some God-forsaken remote place where they won't see a soul.
Whereas we Europeans will huddle together, the more the merrier, on the most crowded beaches we can find and call it Heaven. The idea of spending days (let alone weeks, God forbid) in some lonely place would drive any of us to tears.
The cultural differences are really gigantic.
To each his own. Being with the people I care about in the wilderness is one of my favorite things. I consider the places I go backpacking to be some of the least god forsaken areas in the US. Perhaps in your country you have a cohesive society and culture. Here in a America we generally do not. Cultural differences indeed.
I've enjoyed your deep level of empathy and attempt to understand other cultures. /sarc
Here is one of those god forsaken lakes I'll be camping at.
Nice read Jim, though I always think, well, you get borne into what's here already, and you are part of it. You may break out of the hamster cage, mentally, and like you (and me) become an observer who sees in such relief, and then some.
But you know what? I'm OK with it being exactly as it is.
I apparently do not think nor behave much like other people around me, except in as far as it's necessary or essential, and the number one thing I see around me are people in deep disorder and misery using activities to cease being alone with themselves, for any reason. At present I have a guy living downstairs who is a pathological loud talker, who can not stop from talking to anyone and everyone 24/7, and talking total nonsense into his phone, all hours of day and night.
He does not annoy me, I'm OK with him being just like that.
But then again, what it the difference between him vocalizing, or someone texting on a smart phone 24/7, or you or me typing on a keyboard to zh? Not much.
We are all a bit captured by the illusion we are spinning, internally, and then expressing externally into the world, and all action and all objects are shaped and regarded within the desire framework, of that waking-dream that we call being 'awake', and 'living'.
Modern humans are 'dreamers', all of us. And we are all trying the best not to have a nightmare, nor to have someone else near us have nightmares, that affect our dream and what we express. And that's what we're basically all about, as a culture mate. Primarily pleasure oriented to fulfill the dreamed desires, with as little or no restraint as viable, or even not viable.
I'm very happy to walk away from all of it though, and I regularly do.
And that somehow disturbs the dream of others, who figure that there must be something wrong with a person who never feels loneliness, and does not not want to participate in the shared dreaming activity with them. Or "The Dreaming", as it was apparently misinterpreted from Aboriginal culture (Ab-Original that is).
Thus they would "go walkabout", and that became associated with "The Dreaming", and people figured the Walkabout was where "The Dreaming" occurred. The walkabout was where that just got up and walked away, disappeared from the collective, for as long as they wished to, and then returned periodically to the tribe, for however long they wished. Doing walk about was a very normal thing to do, and considered valuable, but was translated into English as a form of spiritual practice (which I also think they got completely misinterpreted).
This getting up and just walking away from 'The Dreaming' was in fact totally normal. And I respect that, I honor it, I value that, as it is Living with a capital 'L'.
I see absolutely no problem with any white man naturally doing that too, as a natural recourse to the dream.
And it works for me, I didn't realize I was doing that for a long time, but that's what it is to walk away from the awake Dreaming and walk into the non-dreaming. I walk about when 'the dreaming' is mentally tasting like bubblegum with no flavor left in it.
When I go walkabout I don't take anything with me that you don't absolutely need, in order to live, and have basic needs met. No mental dreams, no mental noise making gadgets. It puts the flavor back into your the dreaming's bubblegum. ;-)
Hence I'm OK with that collective dream being expressed as exactly what it is, because the dreaming is also me, and the non-dreaming is the actual non-dream non-me. And it is that 'non-dreaming', that I can't type anything about here. There's no keyboard in existence that can translate that over one of these 'televiewer' things. So I'll be going walkabout fairly soon-ish. ;-)
Thank you for your observations.
What a great post. Bravo!
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king, but that doesnt stop the blind from trying to poke that eye out every chance they can.
Especially when violent or desperate, or too stupid they just lash out isntead of thinking.
I tried far too many times to tell people, the numbers are so high, the brain just quits. If it not that, all my old haunts got shot the fuck up, but yet the same people you talk to, wont leave.
The only answer left is......A crippling punch in the face every single morning they wake up, thats it. But hopefully ill be long gone, im not holding any hands, or babysitting, either you get it or you dont.
This post is just more proof that 0.3% will actively resist and the other 99.7% will be spectators, looters, and informants in the new Revolution.
So you vactioned in Wildwood and saw some weird people that cannot think for themselves as well as some savages.... stop complaning at least you didn't get punched in the face by a Florida State QB.
In a consumer society you have to persuade everyone to act on impulse and seek immediate gratification.
If people thought about things and only bought what they needed world trade would collapse.
I need that iphone 7 and I need it now.
"I ate more pieces of white pizza from Mack’s than I can remember."
Okay enlightened one, even if you think your thin eating pizza is gonna fuck you up in the end with some type of disease/cancer.
This guy is a major idiot and douche. I don't know where to begin.
8 years ago my family went to Wildwood. We are black and both of us worked then as now. We're from Ohio and made a special trip there. We saw other black people while we were there. It was a day trip, thankfully so I don't know if any of the other black people we saw actually stayed there.
The trip to Wildwood was much prettier than Wildwood itself.
Boardwalks are basically tacky.
The Author is an idiot for acting superior about spending his vacation at a Jersey Shore boardwalk. Lol
Oh I spot idiocracy all the time when I see american pictures! It starts with president obomba.
Then grab a wiener, pauls balls etc...
Hey You, yeah I'm talking to you Jim. Couldn't you find that most popular attraction? Kick him in the balls i think it's called.
for some reason, this story reminds me of a stripper i met a while back: bright red hair, kind of a 1950s style bob, alabaster skin, perfect teeth, eyes shaped like almonds, and a body made for fucking. My goodness, and she was smart too (or maybe it was the 5 jack and cokes that impaired my thought process). anyway, she was from out east near vermont and for some reason stripping in the midwest living in a hotel with her dog. (sound familiar to anyone?)
and she had peacock feathers tattooed on her as well! In fact, she had tattoos up and down her body and they were hypnotic. seriously, she must have been a honey trap because by the end of the night my tounge was hanging out of my mouth, i was about $300 into her and I could not take my eyes off those damned birds.
and normally i am not a fan of tattoos on women...but I think because of the white skin/red hair it worked. Fortunately my buddies dragged me away from her before I could do something stupid like marry her.
regarding the article, too judgmental for my taste. i would have gone to Aspen for a week instead.
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
So who's the hot chick on the edge of this photo?
http://i743.photobucket.com/albums/xx75/danqui5/shore064_zps71260681.jpg
"The funniest “upscale” purveyor of toxic junk food is Wildwood’s only French establishment – La Bakerie. Where else could you find a Nutella Crepe, S’mores Crepe, Fried Snickers, Fried Twix, or Fried Nutter Butter? It’s like you’re actually in Paris."
Talk about ignorance. Just go to Paris. I've been there and there is no way you'll ever find a fried chocolate bar anywhere.
Pure 'Murikan aberration.
"Liberals, progressives, Obama lovers, and control freaks have a problem with my observations because they don’t believe any behavior, clothing choice, or life choice should be judged, scorned or ridiculed."
Because of their phony moral high ground and love of censoring, liberals and progressives are the plague of the USA. Nobody likes to be hectored by some know-all who thinks worlds of himself, so they only stoke frustrations and get the opposite results.
On the other hand, one could say that this piece is written by some self-righteous prig who loves to hate and scorn and thinks worlds of himself, so is not any better than a liberal.
"The Free Shit Army doesn’t like to pay, so they gravitate to Wildwood."
Here we go with the "free shit army" meme. When will this kind of moron understand that what he promotes, an unregulated free market economy based on shareholders and not on production, creates joblessness, poverty, inequalities, and that a governement that works for such a trap has to shield itself from possible upheavals, that the best way to silence discontent is to throw crumbs to the slaves in order to keep them above starvation, and that inevitably, that leads the system to the distribution of "free shit" so it can carry on hoovering the wealth of the nation for its hordes of shareholders without hindrance? What part of "panem and circenses" doesn't he get?
And when will this sort of self-righteous prig understand that another way for the system to carry on is by creating endless divisions, so the dissidents cannot hope to unite against it or gain any relevance?
Divisions like hating others because they are black, poor, fat, women, white men, right-wing, left-wing, you take your pick amongst the various reasons to hate others constantly spun by the US media, are music to its ears.
Funny that the know-alls like this fool are the first suckers for its propaganda.
"They have been dumbed down by our public education system."
So is it their fault because they're dumb, or is it not their fault because they have been programmed by a faulty education?
You can't have both.
"They have no worries about the fact that Obama and the captured corrupt politician snakes slithering around the halls of Congress have added $7.6 trillion to the national debt since 2009, a 75% increase in six years."
In the USA, money rules. Show me a place where money, when it rules, doesn't create corruption.
A place that's run by economy rather than politics (yes, the US politicians are all bought by private interests, so ECONOMY rules, not politics) is bound to be a rotten apple. It's not Obama, it's not Bush nor any of these clowns. It's the US accumulation of wealth-based society.
When is he going to write a piece about that?
Never, I'd say. He prefers to hate. It's so much easier than thinking, isn't it?
Sarcasm and irony I take it, you don't do?
Damn, Jimbo,
That was quite the rant. What happened, you polish off all the left over from vacation Boone's Farm Tickle Pink in one sitting and decide to unleash?
Back to killin' snakes...
For being a supposed libertarian (not the judgmental right-wing ideologue he actually is), Jim certainly manages to shit all over a lot of people who don't fit his narrowly prescribed version of what the world apparently should be.
Just chalk full of irony too including blasting people for their nutritional choices including heavily-processed food with almost no nutritional value while eating lots of white pizza from Manco's and ice cream from Kohr's both of which are heavily processed with lots of artificial flavors while being either high in saturated fat/salt/etc.
Also does things that only 'idiots' do too including take one of those 1/2 day fishing trips which any of the guys on the boat know is a gigantic waste of money given the current state of NJ fisheries when you only go out 2-3 miles & fish the same wrecks over and over again.
As for the noise and crowds, then don't go to a NJ shore spot over the 4th of July weekend especially one that caters to a younger crowd. If you want no noise at night with strict zoning regulations, head to Cape May, Avalon, Stone Harbor, or Ocean City.
Just can't be happy apparently that he is fortunate enough to be in good enough health to enjoy a week off with his family and spend a week off doing things he enjoys by the ocean. Lots of people would be quite grateful to be able to afford that kind of luxury.
He is not alone in his take on the State of Union. Way too critical but in that criticism of our fellow human beans who refuse to exercise anything remotely close to good judgment, he magnifies some of the rot infesting our culture to the detriment of the country.
The diseased narcissism at the root of Tatoos like the daughter who did an entire wrap around up to her neck, is sick. It is an emblem proclaiming that "I am Unique! You must look at me and say to yourself, 'She is one of a kind in the entire universe and MUST be noticed'"!!!!
This same pathetic cry for the world to "notice me" is also exemplified in the names that black people have invented to give themselves and their offspring the only thing that differentiates them from anyone else. And that's where it stops. Not in achievement, not in forsaking irresponsible child rearing for a good set of values that would make them at least marginally contribute to the society they live in. The culture of naming children with freakish names that require taking attendance at school the only time the kid will be looked at as 'special'. "HEY! Look at me!! I am Keishawana, and you must stop the roll call so that I can have center stage for a minute, the only time in my life I will ever own it,to spell my name for the teacher. ALL your eyes on ME!!" word.
So what if people get tattoos and what business is it of yours? What about the unique spellings that white people give their kids?
Obesity is a big problem in the US especially but this 'it is just a matter of willpower' is BS and any doctor who treats obesity will tell you that especially with what he have learned about how hunger and appetite are regulated in the body the past 20 years.
Irony here is that just like Jim is that other people are fine as line as they fit your description of narrowly-defined social and behavioral norms and accusing them of wanton ignorance when yourself are the same on the topic.
Agree that obesity is a national disgrace. But disagree on the solution. We have extremely wide social and cultural norms. The mere fact that a tiny minority, several tiny minorities actually, like gay marriage proponents, and transgender affickianados manage to take up so much of air in the room proves only that media have to have something sensational and trivial to attract eyeballs.
The tatoos and nipple, labia majorum, and other body parts that are punctured to insert them do require the judgment, the critical assessment of these practices that are so far outside the norm that they can be roundly condemned. If one is wont to do that, then at least be curious enough to look at it as a remarkably lame protest and wonder at the self flagellation or masochism they are enduring and say, "WHY".
Sorry, ma'am, but I think my business is to want to be able to go to the store and not have some grossly tatooed, beringed clerk who has spent her meager paycheck on thousands of dollars of worthless body craft wait on me.
If offends my own sensitivities as their sensitivities are offended by my judgment.
Beaches should be generally accessible to the public and NJ is one of the few states where you have to pay to access them.
Tell me about it ! I am constantly surrounded by dumb fucking sheep morons. Even the ones who read, read crap like game of thrones and 50.....etc. We live in a fucking sick society, the engineers are smiling though.
I also would not waste my time on a fucking stupid trip such as this, if I want to go see something, a wilderness hike or a museum. Not fucking sensless vacation for the brainless.
A weirdo goes to a Jersey boardwalk and is upset that there are weirdos at the boardwalk. WTF?
What a self-satisfied, self-righteous, pretentious creep.
The two smartest, kindest veterinary technicians at our vet hospital are "land whales," one male and one female. I am always happy to get them for our dog. They are not stupid young people. Clearly there is something wrong in the food or water that is causing humans to balloon up like they are. I don't know a single fat person who is happy to be fat; it is just BS to claim that they are all into "fat acceptance;" every fat person that I know has tried a million times to lose weight.
I don't like crap food; it tastes horrible to me. But that is just good luck. There but for the grace of God go I, and I'm not throwing the first stone at someone whom the crap-food industry has managed to capture with their weird addictive crud.
It simply comes down to basic biochemistry and daily calorie expenditure. We are hardwired to crave sweets/fats and store as much food as possible to get through leans times where food might be limited or even inaccessible. Biologically i is very hard to lose weight and it is something we really have only begun to more comprehensively understand the last 10-15 years.
The other main issue is that we have created a sedentary society where most of our occupations don't involve much if any physical activity along with reducing the time and energy needed to complete household chores and activities.
Jim acts as if this is only an issue unique to America. It isn't and it is seen in every country that imports a Western-style diet among their middle classes who move into occupations which generally require less manual labor and daily calorie expenditure along with producing more leisure time.
Another factor is medications and chemical pollutants. Antidepressants made me gain 30 pounds; I took them and weighed that much more for a decade. Fortunately I started at a low natural weight and so never got obese, but then after a decade I stopped taking them and the 30 pounds dropped off in a couple of months. I hardly know anyone (female) who isn't on antidepressants. Multiply that by the loads of other meds people take, and the mock-estrogens in every skin care product they slather on (which enter the bloodstream), and the bisphenol and pthalates in the plastics and cans they eat from (both of which cause diabetes) and a whole lot of people are inevitably fat and sick. Most foods are now cooked on (non-stick pans) or in (frozen foods) plastics.
As a bonus, just looking at pictures of food can cause your blood sugar to rise in anticipation of a feast. I don't watch TV, but anyone who does is doing worse things to themselves physically than merely being inert.
I think the authors point is that many people remain willfully ignorant of the very things you listed here. Why are people willing to ingest antidepressants so eagerly without considering that there might be many side effects? Why are they slathering there skin with 'mock-estrogens'? Why are they eating foods cooked on plastics? YOU are responsible for everything YOU choose to consume, not the huckster you sold it to you. The people the author is disparaging are the people who have chosen not to take responsibility for educating themselves and for making their own choices.
People take antidepressants to keep from blowing their brains out, at least the people I know who take them do. They are very well aware of the side-effects, but suicide is worse (I've known six people who killed themselves, some of them relatives). They aren't for everyone (they seem to be especially bad for young males), but they work very well for others. I don't know anyone who has taken them "eagerly."
They are slathering themselves with mock-estrogens because every stupid Consumer Reports type article you read tells you that chemical sunblocks are just fine, and that mineral ones are not effective. It is very, very hard to find articles/studies about these lotions except in fringe sources. I only realized it because I noticed that they actually made me feel sick - but if that weren't the case I probably would have convinced myself that all those "credible" sources were credible.
These days most foods that kids eat are cooked on or stored in plastic - they have no control over that. I bet that the fat young people I see were exposed to loads of it before they were in a position to make their own choices. It permanently screws up your mitochondrial function.
Of course people should investigate more, and try to eat/medicate/slather better. But that's not what this author is about; he's just out for some cheap mean laughs.
What a conceited judgemental idiot! My step daughter has a plethora of body art - one large one dominates her upper back and one shoulder and wraps around her neck. She has worked ever since she graduated from college ten years ago, usually more than one job, until she was recently promoted into a management job scheduling deliveries for a major processed food manufacturer. And she learned glass blowing and has developed a very lucrtive art career in her spare time. Her husband, who I understand has nipple rings, is a CPA.
This kind of holier than thou denigration of the new social norms is precisely why the young tune us out when we try to explain the benefits of markets and capitalism. We spend so much effort to make capitalism seem square and then we wonder why legions of young people vote for socialism.
It's called TATOOING - stop trying to make out that it's somehow anything more than what navvies had on their arms to show their commitment to the Navy.
Jesus some people are SO DESPERATE TO BE NOTICED.
No question he went over the line with his diatribe, though much of what he observes is true. The new social norms that loudly emphasize the denigration of the body, to include your son-in-law's nipple rings, are disgusting to REAL normal people. If your daughter is happy with her wrap around tatoo, which no doubt took god knows how many of her finite hours on earth to create, who is anyone to tell her she should not do it? But as it is her right to go thru the suffering it takes with the needles, it is anyone else's right to criticize it in the sense that they would never have done it themselves. Would the hours she spent uselessly to maim herself have been better spent? No question.
A CPA with nipple rings. I don't know what to say about that other than he and all the others who take the time and money to puncture their skin in sensitive places are borderline nuts.
I don't get the connection between square capitalism---which has never existed but at the street level where the proles in reatail fight it out for a 2% margin----and choosing socialism because it is--what?----round?
We have been betrayed by capitalists who think cutting out employees is cool. What sense does it make for Aetna and Humana to merge? Only a CPA could truly appreciate the bottom line savings of throwing thousands out of the 941 form each quarter.
Capitalists in the Jewish Mafia of New York recently in 2008 rebelled against capitalism and adopted socialism to spread their losses on MBS's to the people. And Hank, Ben, Tim, Jack, Mary, Alan, and a whole bunch of the Tribe, who should have been wiped off the map, were instead saved and made even richer. And you think only the kids want socialism.
Maybe your daughter got pictiified because she has a dad who has also lost his moorings, and is as 'normal' in the "abnormal" sense that is succinctly described in this thread, a father who should have interfered early enough that the child would think long and hard about defiling her own body forever.
Very well stated!!
I don't get the girls who smear themselves with many tattoos and any sort of piercings in their tits or genitals - it's like, how much do these people loathe themselves? You can't even make out the deisgns most of the time.
I bet she also has a plethora of black boyfriends.
"she learned glass blowing" to make drug pipes haha.
'nipple rings' haha gtfo.
These pictures sickened me.
"Growth for the sake of growth alone is the anatomy of cancer."
"The masses don’t read books. We are inundated with so much useless information, we have been reduced to passivity and egotism. The truth is buried in a sea of irrelevance and our culture is based upon triviality."
Yes indeed. Couldn't agree more. Very sad.
I said it before, and I'll say it again, Jimmy:
Dear Mr. Admin (J.Quinn), Thank you for proving that you are a bigoted asshole.
You think you are an informed free man competent to meaningfully critique everything but yourself. You're not. You're just a judgmental, hypocritical prick with some writing skills with which you accidentally punch yourself in the face. STFU, it hurts to watch.
Tattoos don't bother me... except once: a guido walking along the surf had a tramp stamp. FUCKING MIND RAPE AND STILL TRAUMATIZED AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!!!
Edit: This was also at the Jersey Shore.
Humans have thrived due to living in a society. We learn best from each other. Something has gone wrong. Now, wherever you find a mass of people ( city, vacation spot) you find ignorance. Our evolution has stopped and appears to be actually devolving. Similar to the Middle Ages. Global connection has not made the masses smarter, it makes the smartest smarter. This power has corrupted and allowed the elites to control the globe. My only hope is that this is simply a growing pain of an interconnected globe. The first stage of global connectivity, which is owned by the powerful early adopters, but stage two will be the education of the people around the world. A boy has to hope.......
Only a complete fucking moron would vacation with his family in the social cesspool that is Wildwood NJ. Which leads me to the conclusion that the author of this article is a complete fucking moron.
Wow Seriously!!!
You are good of making observation but terrible of making conclusions.
1. Wildwood is lower middle class place,
everyone can afford Wildwood, not everyone can afford one week to waste there. If I have free week should I go to Wildwood or somewhere else?
2. Weekend goers usually avoid Wildwood, it's too far, and if travel so far better go to Cape May.
3. Poor replaced BMW with tattoos, 76% of people who drive BMW cannot afford one, people with common sense do not buy car to flash them around. Tattoos is because boredom and chase of uniqness, it is result of democratization because of Internet we all the same bricks in the wall, kids just wanted to be different, they may regret it one day of cause. BMW is way more consumerism than tattoos, worst for environment, worst for society, worst for health.
4. The most depressing thing on Jersey shore is the white middle class Rutger's educated managers next to their parents and their kids, then you see generational decline, and you start to doubt the whole system because we must better from our parents and our kids must be better human being then us, but we are not. You can see it with Bush family.
No one will probably get to this -
Always went to Wildwood in late May to avoid the hordes, never saw those "sites"...but someone might have thought I was one of them.
Agree with most of what's written here (just remember they are generalities), but tatoos, bikinis, and CPAPs are incidental. What people THINK is the important thing. In general...Americans don't think much at all.
"...and remember: A walk through the ocean of most men's sould would barely get your feet wet." <National Lampoon>
Mr Quinn's observations are those many of us have noted.
There is a critical element missing, however, from this otherwise excellent article, may I supply it here:
Jenji Kohan and the Jewish Hyper-Sexualization of Western Culture
You managed to get your anti-Jewish post in on a topic that had nothing to do with it. Congrats.
Better be stacking Hersy's bars before the morons get'em
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYhTFz_SGw0
Mr. Quinn has revealed a number of his own personality defects with this wordy tripe-fest. Obviosly he is an elitist with a great deal of disdain for those he deems his inferiors. The saddest revelation gleaned from his spew, however, is that he is clearly very disappointed by the fact that all those "white and black trash" fatties don't agree with his world view and don't visit his website and afford him with the confirmation he so desperately needs and wants. What a very, very, pathetic human. He would make a great church leader.
Nonsensical diatribe about self-imposed circumstances.
this is exactly what the Progressives (stealth marxists) set out to create 100years ago, it only took a lawless marxist prez to push it over the top.
a dumbed down, dependent populace.
Nonsensical diatribe about self-imposed circumstances.
Anyone want to wager some Au on the number of tattoos abuckingham has? hahahahaha.
The difference between people with tattoos vs those without is that those of us with tattoos don't give a fuck that many people don't have them. Those without them however can't seem to get over the fact that some people do have them. If you don't like tattoos don't fuckin look at em. I don't like ugly fuckers, so I don't look at em it's pretty fuckin simple.
I don't have tatoos, but that's because I value my ability to get desk jobs that pay the rent. Enjoy your freedom. Obviously you have a job skill that allows you to stick out your middle finger at those who hold you in contempt. Be grateful, and DO enjoy!
Jim does write good stuff.
I work full time. I paid cash for my house. I save (in equal parts PMs and cash). I'm in my 30s and still have my wrestling day's physique-- I bet I'd pin Quinn in the first period without much effort today. I have tattoos (and plan on getting more), wear cut-off camo shorts and Millennium Falcon t-shirts. Perhaps not the most civil image, but this prick would look at me on the boardwalk and call me a lost cause, a moron, a disgrace to humanity, without knowing a damn thing. Yes, judgemental he is.
"The boardwalk is a veritable smorgasbord of funnel cake, fried oreos, fried cheesecake, tornado fries, lemonade, curly fries, corn dogs, zeppolis, fudge, cotton candy, salt water taffy, ice cream waffles, churros, pizza topped with cheese fries, triple fudge sundaes, and of course a large diet coke. How can 300 pound women in bikinis pass up the opportunity to do some carbohydrate binging?"
My god. I almost orgasmed reading this. Yum... Yum... and Yuuuuuuuuuuum. Sometimes vacation can be about eating stuff u never eat at home, or doing things u can't do at home, like midnight chocolate buffets on cruises or eating seafood until u bloat up like a dead cow in a pond. Most of us have routine at home, for those of us who workout and eat healthy, a week away indulging in junk food and beer, and not working out much is a welcomed relaxation. I rarely eat anything like I do at the beach. I mean, I'm surrounded by junk food every day, but the urge to eat it isn't there all that much. But when u walk down the board walk and smell corn dogs, funnel cakes, taste real ice cream or whatever your heart desires...I'm on it like a fly on sh*t. lol. It's nice sometimes, to relax with your kids and wife and eat ice cream at 11pm and watch kids set fireworks off on the beach (illegally I might add) or hear the roar of boulevard traffic as u walk back to your room at midnight. It's the beach. It's time away. But hey, it doesn't bother me to see other people shoving cheese fries down their gullet all week, because they get fat being unhealthy at home, not a week at the beach. But, I'm just one opinion... that in the end... won't matter...
You are and idiot.
I went to Wildwood for the first time last summer and everything the author says here is true (if very judgemental). Wilbur and Wilma Wideload far outnumbered anyone else. I don't particularly find young women covered in huge tats to be very attractive - just easy - but who am I to judge? I also see myself as an observer, but I would not have enjoyed my week away from the daily grind had I spent all my time looking down my nose at everyone else.
It is not polite to call a 300 pound lady in a bikini who has four children from four men a heifer.
Perhaps Mr. Quinn is upset with the insouciance of his fellow Americans which allows predators to flush his country down the toilet, taking him along for the ride. Insulting folks will only get their backs up, not lead them into the light. Leave them alone, find your own kind, draw a defensive circle around yourself, and keep your distance from people who don't suit your purposes.
In its own way, this essay is as self-indulgent as the 400-lb women eating funnel cakes. Who gave YOU the right to judge? The fact that they are there, as you mention, means they probably have to work for a living. The fact that they are obese, probably means that they work some crap desk job where they make peanuts, are constantly harassed, and leave work exhausted from stress, and have time neither to cook wholesome meals or to exercise. Try working in a white-collar sweatshop for three years before you insult people whose shoes you have never tried on. And pray remember, that women work longer hours for less pay than men, and then when they come home they're lucky if the male graciously does 30% of the housework and/or child care while constantly whining about how THEY are too tired for sex.
But do enjoy Wildwood while you can, since you can. It will be under water permanently in about 30 years.