I hear ya.

"Sorry bout that Chief." That 209 stuff sometimes gets carried away. Thank Jah, Phil Gramm was around to snap me out of my reverie.

It's a phucking drag to visit the intertubes and find nothing but whining. This don't work, that's fuckin' broken, that shit don't make no sense. LIS, I hear ya. Problem is, the fucked up shit is getting even more fucked up because the fuckers fuckin' with it don't have clue one what's wrong.

No, that's incorrect, they know exactly what's going on. What is preventing repair is admitting that it doesn't work and why. It would also require admitting that it's been wrong for quite a while. There's no restore point, no place we can go back to and undo what's been done at least not without some serious reconciliation of the books. At this point it's like an accident involving a tour bus full of personal injury attorneys. They don't know how many are injured because people are still getting on the bus.

But what truly fries my testes is that the folks who put us in this trick bag are the same people telling us they can fix it. That wouldn't be so bad if their idea of fixing it wasn't to fuck with it and tweak it some more under a delusional belief that it's unbreakable.

Like a Volkswagen of old, it'll definitely float, but it won't float indefinitely.
The brilliance of the looters notwithstanding, there is a limit. At the risk of offending potential readers either now or in the future, buy a fucking clue. You are being had. Every day in every way you are getting screwed. Everyone is being sucked on by an ever growing array of parasites. The only difference is your awareness of, and tolerance for the continuous drain. That it hasn't already transformed you into some lifeless husk is in no way due to your immunity to the effects. Like Massai tribesmen, it's mostly understood that a lifeless husk is of no use to anybody. Least of all to those with no discernible talent other than tapping into and riding along on the hard work, ingenuity and prosperity of others.

There was a time when this was an expected, acceptable, almost symbiotic, relationship. Just the cost of doing business and business was good. Paying taxes, even "street taxes" didn't overly disrupt the beneficial movement through the pipeline. Acceptable leakage didn't threaten the flow. The parasites this process supported weren't particularly greedy. They didn't flaunt their connection and they vigorously defended against those looking to tap in as well.

We can argue, ad nauseum, when it all went to shit. Pointless, wasted effort, but often good for a few yucks. Plato studied it. Thoureau mused on it. You could stock a prodigious library with just the pros and cons of hitchhiking, middle-manning, facilitating, free-loading or life-blood sucking leeching. We've failed to keep it from swamping the lifeboat we're all, to lesser/greater degree, reliant upon for our continuation.