Hypocrites

Some people just don't think before they speak.

I was reading the minutes from our last band meeting. Some of it reads like old vaudeville, stand-up shtick. I shouldn't diss the whole meeting agenda and discussion, after all there is some great stuff happening with our band that look to pay off in a year or two.

None the less time does not change all things, or people for that matter. Some folks are just made to gossip, rumour monger, back-stab, betray, take their misery out on everyone and everything, lie, cheat, steal, scam, angle around, and be just plain block-headed.

One guy, a recent arrival at that, asked about our chief councillor’s honorarium, which he purportedly put at $80,000. "We don't get anything for it," he righteously said. Never mind that he couldn't prove and wasn't in a position to know who was getting what or why, or that he just finked on who told him. He just blurted it out.
He should have thought first because he a) made at least that much selling fish the past two years and (b) supplemented his income selling stolen produce.

This brings me to guy B. "I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth like some families," is his best gem to date. This fellow wears a miserable, impoverished childhood like badge of honour or something. Well it's an old, faded badge. He isn't a kid anymore. He hasn't starved a day in his adult life. He's made a good living fishing, selling dope, and as a carpenter so yeah that counts as a silver spoon in any book. He blew most of his earnings on booze and drugs in his early adult life and that's nobody's fault or doing but his own.

The silver-spoon family he's talking about? He hates them for no reason, none, zip, zilch, nada. The so-called silver spoon this family was born with- their father worked in a mill, that's it, where ironically Mister I-was-a-poor-kid works now. They’re hypocrites, both of them. Anyone successful, educated, or stable has the effect of mace to a dog to him.

When these two get an audience neither front any solutions or alternatives to what they're complaining about. It's just constant bitching, whining, moaning, grouching, pissing, complaining, gossiping and it isn't just them. From time to time they have a legitimate point but it get lost in their petty crap. My take on them is that the world passed them by and became too complicated for them to understand. Rather than putting time and effort into adapting to change it's easier to bitch, whine, moan, and demand things stay the same, or worse, digress.

Darwin said evolution rolls over such stagnancy and renders it insignificant. Other families are always at they eye of this bunch's gossip storm yet they are self-righteous should anyone say anything about their family. They're not happy unless they're gossiping about someone, tearing someone down, getting someone fired or dismissed, or being just plain miserable. They're not happy unless people they hate are unhappy or hurt. But should anyone do the same to them..... hypocrites.

It takes all types to make the world- not to mention the rez, go around. It makes for great copy too.