"A Moral dilemna"

I have heard the words “moral compass” a few times recently and so I wanted to waffle on about it.

It seems to me the word “Moral” is a very divisive one. There are no actual rules just a general expectation of how one should behave. “I” for example have NO morals. I don’t want any either, it should be then, that as I have none, there can’t be any argument!

“of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.” I mean, how bloody subjective is that lot!

The “elite” have none either, how could they. Politicians too. I am not going to list the multitude of “wrongs” done by the above they should be bleedin obvious to us all by now, but I am surprised that there are still people who blindly follow a “Moral path” they may say “yes, well, they are MY particular set of morals” but that is bollocks! They only have them because they were taught them and they generally work well in their particular world. When Aldous Huxley wrote “and the judge looked at the man in the dock and had to look away because he briefly saw himself” he was expressing perfectly normal natural state of affairs. “It’s wrong to kill”? No it isn’t, “It’s wrong to steal” no it isn’t, “It’s wrong to Lie, cheat, fiddle, etbloodycetera! I don’t think ANY of the so called “Bad” things are necessarily “Bad”! Obviously it “all depends on the circumstances”. If you rip me off and I can’t get recourse via the law, I will rip you off right back. If that makes me Immoral” bring it on!

Why do big businesses get away with what we would rightly call “immoral behaviour”? Because they are NOT human, a business is just that. And “You” are considered a “Business” if you deal with them. Anyway I digress……. The reason for the “Moral Blog” is because I was thinking about whether it would be considered wrong to do something to satisfy a nagging suspicion.

I could say, “bollocks", if I am unhappy about a feeling I should dispense with the cause and move on” but you see, the problem is, I feel I need to KNOW if my feeling is justified! I simply cannot go through life “Wondering” as well as “Wandering”! One is enough!!

Of course if everybody was truthful there wouldn’t be any dilemma! But let’s not delude ourselves; most moral compasses these days need a damn good “re-calibrating”

Plus, all compasses have 360 degrees, you can’t just go north! If you do you will miss loads of potentially interesting things.

Someone mentioned the “Trolley problem” to me the other day and I thought, fuck it, I would make “whatever decision” FELT right at the time! It isn’t a dilemma for me,

It goes like this:

A trolley is running out of control down a track. In its path are five people who have been tied to the track by a mad philosopher. Fortunately, you could flip a switch, which will lead the trolley down a different track to safety. Unfortunately, there is a single person tied to that track. Should you flip the switch or do nothing?

Firstly, if “That” was ALL the information available, being a supporter of the Optimum population trust (now renamed population matters) I would probably save the one. However, there could be a plethora of reasons to make the other choice from age to gender to personal knowledge of the victims; it’s a bit of a daft scenario. One thing is for sure “Nothing” isn’t an option!

A more interesting “dilemma”? Would be (for me) you believe someone is or has lied to you or deceived you or stolen from you. The evidence is within your grasp but to get it, you must essentially “spy” or go through their things. If you are correct about your suspicion but do nothing, they get away with it, if you succumb to the curiosity and do the deed, you have essentially done something else “underhand” but what if you are proved right? (Moral dilemma, “The ends don’t justify the means”!) “Bollocks”!! We use “Spies” all the time in order to be aware of other country or persons behaviour/actions. We simply apply a “Justification” in that instance. Personally I don’t give a fuck what my country says “we need to know”! They haven’t seen fit to let me know “WHY” so I do not agree on the course of action. If they deem it important enough to seek my approval to “govern me” they sure as hell need it to make the decision to sell bombs to despots. You NEVER see that one in the manifesto!

So back to the “sneaky peeking” if you do nothing and the person “Had” been lying or whatever, then they have got away with it. If you do “Something” you have also committed a “wrong”. So, so far we have “two wrongs”! And what do they make?? “Wrong”! No, I mean, “Right”! No, what I “mean” is, two wrongs do NOT automatically NOT make a “Right”? Forgetting about the juvenile “two wrongs don’t make a right” crap, what they may well do is, make a difference upon which you can, “make a decision”! “A VALID decision. What we need to remember is if you were right, then they started the whole fucking problem by being deceitful! That is to say; don’t fuck with me; if you fuck with me then I am definitely going to fucking fuck with you! “Fuck it” Simple, do you know, no matter how many times I look at this type of dilemma, I simply can’t come to another conclusion. It just seems absolutely fair to me. (This is how I feel)

This scenario has happened in my life where “I” have been “caught out” and when “They” have been caught out. What interests me most is when “I” have been sussed, I blub and stick my hands up! “It’s a fair cop guvnr” but when it’s been the other way round! Blimey!  Have the banshees been let loose or what! “How dare you blah blah blah”!  I can never get my head around the discovery of the “original” issue suddenly being relegated to a “secondary issue”!!!

(This is what I do)

My attitude these days is; if I have a suspicion or a feeling something isn’t quite right, I decide to accept my feeling as the truth and leave it at that. In other words “I do nothing” which is contrary to the Trolley Problem. Yes they get away with it maybe but if I do something underhand it always comes back on me, all I can say is may the same fortune smile on you.

Just re-read this and ALL the instances of the world "Dilemna" have been changed to the American! 

E&oe. All of the above is entirely fictitious, all characters and scenarios are also fictitious. I reserve my right to change my opinion/mind at any time and bollocks to the royal welding.

Unemployable

I was thinking about how many jobs I have had in 35 years and remembered that at 22 it had already reached 80. Some only lasted a few minutes before I realised I couldn’t be arsed and some lasted as long as……… 2 months! There were a load of “training courses” included in that number and a few attempts at self employment. The one thing that did remain “constant” was “Boredom”! I quickly became bored with all of it.

I went to the “Employment advice centre” in BSE once and had a full assessment of what I could do. The man who saw me was a retired businessman who after 2 weeks of deliberation kindly informed me, “I was Unemployable”! NOT because I wasn’t capable of any particular job, but because he thought I was more “Self employed” material. Problem was, that at the time the DHSS considered a “Bucket and ladder” the best way to get people started, I think it was more likely they didn’t want to invest any more money than the cost of same!

Now I am NOT work shy! But I DO insist that if I am to provide MY labour in return for money, I would like the lion’s share of that money for myself. I haven’t really managed to get beyond 80% of it going on “Living” expenses and a little “Pocket money” left for me, so I am not going to do that. I have looked quite carefully at the rise in living costs over the years and the “Lack” of rise in earnings, the most obvious example being the cost of a house/flat whatever. It was once possible to buy one on your tod with a mortgage that could be dealt with in 25 years! That is no longer possible for the average earner, that tells me, “we are being shagged” it has been a sneaky steady increase in what one pays to live and has been largely ignored because the anaesthetic is television. I haven’t watched it for 6 months now and I find my brain is starting to get stimulated again. See the problem for me is, I am easily led into falling for the “shiny” things! Yes, I loved expensive clothes and watches. For fucks sake, I have “Zimmerli” underwear! There is a photo on my FB I looked at yesterday and realised that every piece of clothing was a “Label” not just an average designer label, oh no, jacket was a 100% Cashmere blazer, shirt, Brioni, Tie, Emilio Pucci, Watch, Cartier, socks, Pantherella, Trousers,  Loro Piana, Boots, John Lobb and yes Undies, Zimmerli! Now had my name been Alan Sugar or Donald Trump, I might have been able to get away with it but FFS, I was potless! Slowly but surely I am getting rid of all these “Illusions” on eBay. I had suckered for Mark Twain’s quote “Clothes make the man” they may well have had an influence on how one was viewed back in the 1880’s and it would still help open a few doors today but that is totally “Dishonest”! I have even been refused work because the interviewer was “Intimidated” by my appearance, a professional recruitment company in NZ told me “try and dress down” as you will find it hard to get a job looking too smart!

Having been “dishonest” in my life I know it is useless. I don’t want to be dishonest in any areas anymore; it’s a fucking trial having to maintain an illusion in both appearance and manner. It is also what keeps the status quo, rich, poor, them us etc. as long as I have a hole in my arse I will not accept there is any justification in one man having billions when billions have nothing. I am not a socialist, I just don’t see why “Hard work” should ever result in little reward and some do very little and get millions. If “I” worked hard to build up a business and it made millions and was the result of help from all the workers then the share should be more equal.

When I call a call centre and get some slack mouthed indolent tosser who is of no help, I am NOT going to be surprised!

Where am I going with this? Well, if I had left school and pursued a course of action not unlike the one most people have followed, and then after 35 years realised that things were not any better than when I left school, “I would be majorly pissed off”

How many times have the goal posts moved! And if you say “ah, that’s life”! I am certainly going to reply “Is it”!?

Going to watch the “Royal”? Wedding this weekend? Remember the last one? If I were Kate, I would try my best not to piss off Philip and steer well clear of Paris! “I” don’t know what really happened, but then “No one does”! Suffice to say it was about as honest as a banker.

Wiki leaks are only a problem because they don’t want us to know the devious bullshit that goes on in our name. And whether we like it or not, it’s ALL about flogging guns and buying oil!

And the worst of everything is the Media. They know full well that if they run a story and then pull it, it will be forgotten about quite quickly! My problem if you like, is I still remember “Stephen Waldorf” Sean Greenhaulgh, Ben Lewis’s report on the Art scam, all the things that have quietly gone away but the shit that created or surrounds them is still happening. You may say, well, the Stephen Waldorf” thing is done and dusted? What about “Ian Puddick” then? Waldorf just got pistol whipped, Puddick is being “Terrorised”! That seems like a major escalation of tactics. And what are millions of people going to do this weekend? “Watch the |Royal wedding and wonder who designed her dress!

Raymond Baxter told me all sorts of brilliant things would happen by now, and I fell for it! That really pisses me off. 

I just proofed the above before deciding to post it and I thought “what a load of aggressive reactionary disjointed anger that is! But then, I still believe it, I did think, but I am not that angry!! I have a great laugh generally; I love to find humour in life, “fuck me”  “I have to”

Luckily, all that is how I feel and I don’t have to make it my life’s story. All I insist on is keeping well aware of my surroundings and a weather eye on when I need to get out the crossbow and dig in!

“Coming soon, Relationships”! (I should cocoa)