ooooh, random moment of awesomeness!
My brain did thinky things, and I had an epiphany that is what I think is the perfect analogy (or is it a metaphor?) for why nothing actually gets done in congress, because we all bitch a lot about a lot of things, but hardly anything actually gets changed:
You know what this makes me think of? Computers, and technology as a whole. Twenty years ago, or whatever, probably more, computers where the size of a whole room, and only people like Exxon had them. Then they got smaller, and people started getting them in their homes. And then they got better and more efficient, and even more people had them in their homes. And then, etc etc etc.
But along the way, there were people that said people at home don't NEED computers, whereas we do. And other people said, yes they do. And then Microsoft came along and made the home computer more user friendly, and the computer geeks hated it because they preferred DOS, and you couldn't do as much with Windows.
And then you COULD do more with Windows, but the computer geeks still liked DOS more, and they said the Windows people were freaks, and the Windows people said the DOS people were freaks.
And then they came out with XP, and 98 was obsolete, but people got used to 98 and resented the fact that they had to upgrade to an XP in order to get the newer, fancier, cooler programs to work.
And then Vista came out and it failed... miserably.
And then there's the whole Mac vs. PC debate, thrown in the middle of all that.
So what you have is, between Windows 98 and XP, the 98'ers are saying "yes, 98 has glitches, but I like what I have, I know what I have, I understand what I have, I don't WANT it to be new." And XP was like "okay, but xp is better and newer and can do all this awesome shit, and it's not that much of a difference, it's still easy, it won't take you any time at all to learn it, just give it a chance." And some 98'ers upgrated, and some stayed the same.
And then, the same argument happened with XP vs Vista, and... Vista failed. So sometimes newer ISN'T better.
And it's like, you know there's going to be glitches, or failures, in either camp. Dem/Rep, Dos/Windows, 98/XP, Mac/PC, whatever. Doesn't matter. There are positives, negatives, in every camp... it's just... do you really want to never take a chance and possibly wind up being better so you can stay with the same old and know what you're getting... Or, take a chance, and get something equal, worse, or, possibly, BETTER.
The differnce is, in the computer world, change IS made all the time, and they DO learn from their mistakes, whereas in politics, we're just stuck in the same fucking muck we've always been stuck in. Dude. BILL GATES FOR PRESIDENT! LMFAO!!!
You know what this makes me think of? Computers, and technology as a whole. Twenty years ago, or whatever, probably more, computers where the size of a whole room, and only people like Exxon had them. Then they got smaller, and people started getting them in their homes. And then they got better and more efficient, and even more people had them in their homes. And then, etc etc etc.
But along the way, there were people that said people at home don't NEED computers, whereas we do. And other people said, yes they do. And then Microsoft came along and made the home computer more user friendly, and the computer geeks hated it because they preferred DOS, and you couldn't do as much with Windows.
And then you COULD do more with Windows, but the computer geeks still liked DOS more, and they said the Windows people were freaks, and the Windows people said the DOS people were freaks.
And then they came out with XP, and 98 was obsolete, but people got used to 98 and resented the fact that they had to upgrade to an XP in order to get the newer, fancier, cooler programs to work.
And then Vista came out and it failed... miserably.
And then there's the whole Mac vs. PC debate, thrown in the middle of all that.
So what you have is, between Windows 98 and XP, the 98'ers are saying "yes, 98 has glitches, but I like what I have, I know what I have, I understand what I have, I don't WANT it to be new." And XP was like "okay, but xp is better and newer and can do all this awesome shit, and it's not that much of a difference, it's still easy, it won't take you any time at all to learn it, just give it a chance." And some 98'ers upgrated, and some stayed the same.
And then, the same argument happened with XP vs Vista, and... Vista failed. So sometimes newer ISN'T better.
And it's like, you know there's going to be glitches, or failures, in either camp. Dem/Rep, Dos/Windows, 98/XP, Mac/PC, whatever. Doesn't matter. There are positives, negatives, in every camp... it's just... do you really want to never take a chance and possibly wind up being better so you can stay with the same old and know what you're getting... Or, take a chance, and get something equal, worse, or, possibly, BETTER.
The differnce is, in the computer world, change IS made all the time, and they DO learn from their mistakes, whereas in politics, we're just stuck in the same fucking muck we've always been stuck in. Dude. BILL GATES FOR PRESIDENT! LMFAO!!!