Hostile Territory

[niviene]

Some of you know that I have been studying law for a few years now. Now that I'm nearing the end, I've been thinking about what I've learned in school - the ideals - vs the harsh reality. How I wish that things really went as they do in the books. But, reality isn't even remotely close. The worst of the whole thing is what it's done to me, I feel. The only word I can think of to describe my overall feeling of the world around me right now is "angry." I feel angry. About everything. When I sign a receipt and notice it's a contract, I feel angry. When I look at a EULA on something I install and read the contract's wording, when I get a product I feel isn't up to par with what I paid for, when I hear about my sister's landlord keeping her deposit for cleaning charges - all these things I didn't know were really 'illegal' before or that were binding, technically, in some way, now make me just feel... sooo angry. I keep seeing people getting ripped off or being violated, and I feel like I can see the problem now, but can't do anything about it. My sister, the broke college student, whose bank smacked her with three 32.00 overdraft charges when she was off by less than one dollar, and was then overdrafted because they took their fees out FIRST before paying her charges. That's not illegal, I know - but I just feel suffocated by all these stupid disgusting companies and corporations out to suck whatever they can out of the few remaining good people left on the planet. I've never felt so utterly hostile, it's like when I go out now I'm LOOKING for a reason to stick up for somebody, somehow. I am starting to think I was better off not knowing... anybody got the number for a good lobotomy doc? Am I the only one who feels so frustrated by these things?

[Tormod]

Niv, it's a bad case of legalese overdose. Go grab an oreo cookie before you get stuck on the donuts. :(

 

I know how you feel though. I have days like that too.

[niviene]

oo... Oreo.

 

........*gets sued for using Oreo without it's trademark*

 

bah!! :(

[Turtle]

I've never felt so utterly hostile, it's like when I go out now I'm LOOKING for a reason to stick up for somebody, somehow. I am starting to think I was better off not knowing... anybody got the number for a good lobotomy doc? Am I the only one who feels so frustrated by these things?

 

You are not alone Niviene. Nice to hear from you again. While on the face of it you question 'whether it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved before?', because you have already loved the latter possibility is null and void. Rather than seek a lobotomy, or any other mind extractive procedures, you may as well continue your expansion; in for a penny, in for a pound. I recommend a big dose of sense of humorization. Can I get you something in the way of a religious scatalogical joke? :(

[InfiniteNow]

We must make change within ourselves, changes which actively seek NOT to take advantage of others. Enough people do it, it spreads, and those people open companies which have that as an ideal, and that spreads, and (lots of ifs...) if enough do it, the hostile world causing you such chagrin will have changed. However, maximization of benefit for minimal expenditure, and ensuring outcomes to improve our situations is much more than just contractual, it's evolved.

 

 

You implied your consent by being born. ;)

 

 

Cheers. :fly:

[moo]

I've never felt so utterly hostile, it's like when I go out now I'm LOOKING for a reason to stick up for somebody, somehow.

I'm sure this must be incredibly frustrating (sorry), but IMO it's a good sign because it shows you still have a conscience. Methinks the time to worry is if/when this kind of stuff no longer bothers you. Good luck. :cup:

 

moo

[IDMclean]

The world of Ideals and the world of reality are far streched things. What you will do in this world will have effects. What you choose to champion, what you use in your daily life, the place you live, the people you talk to, the contracts you enter into, all of these things seek to shape and justify the behaviour and expectations of all the people in your life, including yourself.

 

Imagine when a six year old child finally conceives of the notion of a game with rules. Who then realizes the social system he lives in, and is part of is one big game, with a single exception. It is not easy, nor simple to simply stop playing the game.

 

Made me so mad when I realized that the game was in play but so many people are cheating by the rules of the game itself and by the metarules. What's worse is that most people will tell you that you have to play the game. They don't acknowledge that there are other games to play, or that the rules they play are non-sense, are not constructive to the playing of the game.

 

There are fundamentally three major choices when considering a game. Play the game as presented. Do not play the game. Play the game but change the rules of engagement.

 

In the game of society the middle option is next to impossible, so I choose the latter rather than the former.

 

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King Jr.

 

Do what you can, a live your life aware. The way you play the game determines the way others play the game. Don't let life get you down. As Monty Python would say: "Always look on the bright side of life."

[TheFaithfulStone]

That's not illegal, I know - but I just feel suffocated by all these stupid disgusting companies and corporations out to suck whatever they can out of the few remaining good people left on the planet.

 

Isn't sentience a curse?

 

Think about your credit score! A numerical measure of your willingness to be screwed for someone else's benefit.

 

My own garden is overrun with credit rats and marketing weasels. How shall I go about tending it? My metaphorical squash are spoken for before they even come out of the ground. [With apologies to Voltaire.]

 

I think the most frustrating thing about life of tyranny by contract is that everybody knows it's a problem and no one knows what to do.

 

Ah feel yah pain.

 

TFS

[Chacmool]

You go, niviene! It's good to know someone still cares about the little people who get trampled on.