Louis Shalako
How to Spot an Ineffectual Do-Gooder.
The ineffectual do-gooder’s preferred habitat is the front page of your local media outlet.
Their most distinguishing feature is that they are always ‘raising awareness’ of some significant topical issue, and a distinct absence of ideas of exactly what to do about it. They want to hold a candlelight vigil. More than anything, they want a pat on the back and reinforcement of the idea that they are good people, that they love Jesus and they’re just trying to do God’s work for Him, when in reality, these privileged, dull, unimaginative children of the middle class are just looking for a little publicity and a feeling that they are making a difference, when, really they are not—
If I was a Canadian journalist, confronted by yet another ineffectual do-gooder, ever so sincerely trying to raise awareness on the front page of my media outlet, I would have just one question for them:
“On this particular issue, if you could offer one single, concrete, and specific suggestion to address the situation, if you were given the power to take action, what would you do?”
< resounding silence>
“What’s the first thing you would tell the government to do. Right? They have the power to pass laws and fund programs, what would you suggest…? Right?”
<more silence>
And, ladies and gentlemen, if they don't have anything, then they don't get in my newspaper or other media outlet. That's because you're wasting all of our time. As a self-absorbed, egotistical little shit, this shocks you in some small way. But, as an example, 'the opoid crisis' is in the newspapers, on TV news and radio news, at least once a week.
How much fucking higher do you think we will have to 'raise awareness' of this issue, considering the idea or concept of the opioid crisis has well over a 95% 'penetration rate', in terms of public awareness. So, if you get that up to 98%, will something miraculously happen to solve the problem…??? Because that’s the impression I get. The power of positive thinking is useless without positive, by that I mean concrete, specific suggestions. Ideas. What exactly would you have us do? Go downtown and burn a candle on the riverbank with you? All that does is get us in the paper.
You honestly believe it will work—
You honestly believe that somebody, somewhere else—surely not the likes of you, will take concrete and specific actions to address the issue. As long as it’s not you—because you don’t have one, single fucking idea. Just feelings—hopes and dreams—thoughts and fucking prayers.
And you can't—or won't—answer that one either. It's okay, you're in good company. Canadian journalists can't answer it either. No, far better to raise awareness and have no ideas at all. At least that way you can’t fail. That’s because you can’t try. You have nothing to try—nothing at all.
#practical_suggestions #Canadian_journalism
Simply put, you're a
bunch of fucking dummies.
A dummy
is someone who doesn't have any ideas.
They’re
fucking
everywhere.
Are you aware, young man,
that income levels are closely linked to outcomes in terms of mental health
issues?
And that mainstream media
and the middle class have forever inextricably linked mental health and
addictions as being one and the same issue...??? #fuck_off
Have you ever wondered
why they do that? You know, like slandering anyone who ever had a beer or
smoked a joint as mentally-ill?
Oh, yeah, and then
turning around and slandering anyone with a mental illness as an inveterate
substance-abuser?
When the Establishment
does that, government, CMHA, corporate media, it
is an attempt to make an expensive problem look unsolvable. They’ll drib and
drab with food banks, mental-health outreach programs, all of it underfunded
because it’s hopeless anyway.
And they’ll never be out
of a job, either.
And, if the middle-class,
the taxpayers, (the rich, the big corporations, duck their fair share in a
multitude of ways, and of course poor people are below the tax threshold on CRA
tax tables), think it's a lost cause, why, then, they’re obviously not going to want to spend their tax
dollars on it. They’d rather plunk it down on something that works, like roads, bridges and hospitals.
Those are more tangible—you
can see them, and they seem real. The average middle class person has no expertise
when it comes to solving poverty.
I’ll tell you this much:
you have no ideas. No one is going to hand you a big pile of cash, not an
effective amount of cash. Because it takes billions, year in and year out.
Fifty or sixty grand, some grant money, (but you haven’t even got that far yet,
that’s because you have no fucking ideas),
buys you a storefront for a few months. It hires one entry-level professional just
out of school, for about six months, and it buys a few pens, pencils, an ad in
the local paper—who are only too happy to take the taxpayer’s money.
You're all talk and no
cock, Boyo.
What impresses me most
about you people is how little you know about the people you are ostensibly
planning to help.
“It’s difficult to validate, but we do believe that several deaths have been prevented since Naloxone or Narcan kits have become available,” he said.
Yeah, it's a lot like claiming success in suicide prevention, while at the same time, resisting all calls to track ODSP/OW suicide statistics. Because we all know what that would show. It would show that ODSP/OW clients are a high-risk group. They are at-risk. We all know it to be true, even though there are no stats—it is a self-evident truth.
And we also know that the only solution is time, money, expense, trained people, working at effective programs. That money would have to come from somewhere, probably the taxpayers.
We can’t have that now, can we.
Ideas do not come from ineffectual do-gooders.
#fuck_off
Another one.
...would this, by any chance, have anything to do with the fact that ODSP clients are living thirty-five to forty percent below the poverty line?
Then why not fucking say so.
The funny thing is, he never will, and neither will local radio.
#fuck_off
St. Myles of Yappi.
What’s interesting about the more effectual do-gooders, such as St. Myles of Yappi, is that never, so long as they live, will they bring up the fact that ODSP clients are living thirty-five to forty percent below the poverty line, and that the landlord is taking seventy percent of their disability pension in rent.
Saint Myles will never call for a raise in ODSP/OW rates.
He will
never call for a raise in the minimum wage, or rent controls, or an increase in
allowable earnings for people on social assistance. In that sense, he is a
stooge for the bourgeoisie. But then, they’re the ones donating all the tins of
soup, which is of course in their best interest—they don’t want to see the
situation coming down to class warfare.
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Ultimately,
an ineffectual do-gooder on the front page of the newspaper is just another
damned suck-hole, looking for easy publicity, mostly for no reason at all.
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