Nice Work

I want to talk about jobs for a minute this morning. Jobs are important. Without a job, you can't have a full life and you have to struggle to make the hours pass every day. Most people think of a job as working in an office or a factory or something. When election time comes, the politician who promises them the most job security wins the election. They're just here to do their jobs and retire with a pension. They resemble most of my family and most of the people I've seen around me all my life. I don't share their attitude, but I would be just like them if I wasn't so freakishly talented. While I have received no payment yet, I have done an enormous job in the last ten years or so. I have had to do Saturday Night Live's job and the Simpsons job and Family Guy's job and Jay Leno's job and the Crystalids job and the Shards job and Mick Jagger's job and Seal's job and Nickleback's job and, well, you get the idea. When I produced the content which they unlawfully claimed as their own, I suffered and sacrificed for that content. Maybe I stayed up too late writing a song and was late for work the next day and got in trouble or maybe I wrote one of the poems they stole instead of going out to do my job search for welfare and was penalized by the ministry. On top of that, I received no money for my efforts. And what did they do to earn this money? They played. They played and partied and had fun and got paid big bucks for my backbreaking creative efforts. I was thinking about my training program in 2000. Canada still had a Liberal government when I was awarded that tuition money. The Liberals thought I was a productive citizen who was worth the investment. But then what happened there in 2007? Oh, yeah. Canada went Conservative. And the Conservatives probably looked at my training as some sort of Liberal extravagance and were eager to prove that I was a lost case. Didn't Stephen Harper receive the first letter I addressed to him in Ottawa when I first wrote Nothing but Ashes? It's been restored to my 2013 blogs in its original form. Nonetheless, it seems he consented to the systematic destruction of my work at the hands of big U.S. corporations. I'm sure he did it so we could have jobs - everyone except me. I saw a documentary about reincarnation last night that had some pretty compelling evidence for reincarnation. Spock was narrating and everyone knows that Vulcans don't lie. I'm not sure that we are all reincarnated though. It may be that most of us are 'child souls' who are here for our first time. But a certain minority of people seem to stand out in some way. You may meet them once and the encounter will leave a permanent imprint on you. There seems to be more depth in their aura or something. Those people are probably reincarnated. And the rest of us, just trying to get a job and live a simple life, don't seem to have any past experiences pulling us off in any wild directions. [3:05pm:] Jobs make a person decent. So I guess all those workers were being decent when they went behind my back and supported the fraud because it resulted in jobs. President Obama, was that the decent thing to do? Wasn't there an element of criminal discrimination in it? Did they hate me because I'm Chinese? Well, following this specious argument, I must be the indecent one because I opposed fraud being committed with my life-work. In fact, it was my songs and poems and drawings that made me decent to start with, right? Isn't that what makes an artist decent? His art? And when you take away his art as happened in 2007 and give it to frauds in the name of decency, what does that leave him with? He can't be decent anymore because the things that made him decent are now in the hands of his enemies. You call that decent? That's not only indecent, it's evil.
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