I lurvs me the US morning shows. Really. They are anything but down to earth. I watch college educated assholes who probably had C or D averages jawing on about affairs of the day, and spouting the worst nonsense I ever heard.... but hey... they went to college, they're in the club.....
I don't mean to offend anyone who went to college because they theought they would LEARN something... And possibly did. There is a college trap...
Let's think about this. In my day, registration fees were two thousand dollars aq year. That hardly covered living on campus so I knew some 'poor' people who commuted, and we arraanged to get to our lectures and seminars, and drive back to work 80 hour weeks to psay off our loans so we could finance the next semester, because......
We earned too much and thuis weren't eligible for a grant or scholarship. The novel Catch 22 was popular back then. You should read it.
The most wonderful thing that ever happened was when I got to
German summer school.... oh msn... 2 semesters in eight weeks. Wow, I was up for it, paid the fees.... only to find they hadn't included the dorm and cafeteria fees. I was devasated. Said...'Sorry, I can't come up with that money...' And they told me to wait and held a conference, and whaddaya know... I suddenly had a grant from the German government. Just like that.
Kids in America are fasced with debts on .loans that are so high, it is unimaginable to me. I spent nearly eight thousand dollars on mx so-called edumacation.... except the government nixed what I was studying, because, hey... what Ami wants to learn a foreign language, so they didn't have it as a requisite to get into college.
We never got taught economics. That got dumped from the lower school curriculum in the Fifties, man.... they didn't want us to understand how we were possibly getting fucked over.
The year I was paying my tuition... and workind eighty hours a week and trying to learn something... I paid nearly rwice what a waieter in Austria made... before tips... and they lived ok...
No one ever held out a hand to help except the germans... which was interesting...
So I get back into the rhythm of the news after the fucking loooongg break for the fourth of July, and everyone on these morning shows, who are so attuned to people... but are in a sort of club... went ON about where they vacationed......
OOOO... the Hamptons...
I was in Nantucket.
I was in Cape Cod, but went to Martha's Vinyard for the first time...
That was stupiid Joe.
But the most vapid of the morning shows, who thinks she has themes that connect with 'üeople'... No, we weren't in the South of France'- Sje was om 10 Downing Street sittting in Winston Churchhills's chair. And vistiting her ambassodor brother in 'Sweden... who is doing a tremendous job! Everybody'ss should have a life like hers.... except she is always unhappy and suffers from an inferioritys complex.... and because she grew up with every amenity you could ever wish for... she thinks she cqan empathise with the plight of the average americaqn and chirp and twet and peep and be 'cool'
Why does a liberal chanel liek msnbc let thexse people on screen where you get so frustrated you want to scratch your eyes out?
And then I think of Peter... except he spread the joy and the money and took people with us because they liked me or loved me. So, Mika... I haven't been anywhere in five years, nor can I afford to....
But I've seen Venice over two decades, and Genua, and Rome, and Athens twice, and the most beautiful island in the world Hydras, and the blue of the Mediterranean, and the excitement of Berlin especially after the Wall fell and that ensuing chaos..I sat in Harry's 'Bar in Venice in the 70's, and watched Truman Capote come in for the nien p.m dining sitting upstairs, with his coterie from New York.
So they should just go fuck themselves, becauser it downt get you anywhere in life, it was a personal experience and they should get over it. Just because they could afford it doesn't mean that it was more meaningful... Some of my cheaöpest trips taught me more about life than anything the fenced off upper class would ever imaginge.
They really irritate me.
I don't mean to offend anyone who went to college because they theought they would LEARN something... And possibly did. There is a college trap...
Let's think about this. In my day, registration fees were two thousand dollars aq year. That hardly covered living on campus so I knew some 'poor' people who commuted, and we arraanged to get to our lectures and seminars, and drive back to work 80 hour weeks to psay off our loans so we could finance the next semester, because......
We earned too much and thuis weren't eligible for a grant or scholarship. The novel Catch 22 was popular back then. You should read it.
The most wonderful thing that ever happened was when I got to
German summer school.... oh msn... 2 semesters in eight weeks. Wow, I was up for it, paid the fees.... only to find they hadn't included the dorm and cafeteria fees. I was devasated. Said...'Sorry, I can't come up with that money...' And they told me to wait and held a conference, and whaddaya know... I suddenly had a grant from the German government. Just like that.
Kids in America are fasced with debts on .loans that are so high, it is unimaginable to me. I spent nearly eight thousand dollars on mx so-called edumacation.... except the government nixed what I was studying, because, hey... what Ami wants to learn a foreign language, so they didn't have it as a requisite to get into college.
We never got taught economics. That got dumped from the lower school curriculum in the Fifties, man.... they didn't want us to understand how we were possibly getting fucked over.
The year I was paying my tuition... and workind eighty hours a week and trying to learn something... I paid nearly rwice what a waieter in Austria made... before tips... and they lived ok...
No one ever held out a hand to help except the germans... which was interesting...
So I get back into the rhythm of the news after the fucking loooongg break for the fourth of July, and everyone on these morning shows, who are so attuned to people... but are in a sort of club... went ON about where they vacationed......
OOOO... the Hamptons...
I was in Nantucket.
I was in Cape Cod, but went to Martha's Vinyard for the first time...
That was stupiid Joe.
But the most vapid of the morning shows, who thinks she has themes that connect with 'üeople'... No, we weren't in the South of France'- Sje was om 10 Downing Street sittting in Winston Churchhills's chair. And vistiting her ambassodor brother in 'Sweden... who is doing a tremendous job! Everybody'ss should have a life like hers.... except she is always unhappy and suffers from an inferioritys complex.... and because she grew up with every amenity you could ever wish for... she thinks she cqan empathise with the plight of the average americaqn and chirp and twet and peep and be 'cool'
Why does a liberal chanel liek msnbc let thexse people on screen where you get so frustrated you want to scratch your eyes out?
And then I think of Peter... except he spread the joy and the money and took people with us because they liked me or loved me. So, Mika... I haven't been anywhere in five years, nor can I afford to....
But I've seen Venice over two decades, and Genua, and Rome, and Athens twice, and the most beautiful island in the world Hydras, and the blue of the Mediterranean, and the excitement of Berlin especially after the Wall fell and that ensuing chaos..I sat in Harry's 'Bar in Venice in the 70's, and watched Truman Capote come in for the nien p.m dining sitting upstairs, with his coterie from New York.
So they should just go fuck themselves, becauser it downt get you anywhere in life, it was a personal experience and they should get over it. Just because they could afford it doesn't mean that it was more meaningful... Some of my cheaöpest trips taught me more about life than anything the fenced off upper class would ever imaginge.
They really irritate me.
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