As I get older, I find myself less interested in bullshit and more interested in people thinking before they speak. After all, in a world overtaken by "social" media, we find ourselves surrounded by an absolutely ungodly amount of stupid people suddenly given voice.
I can assure you 100% that there are so, so many people who shouldn't be allowed to speak to other human beings, never mind be allowed to push their inane drivel out into the electronic world…
…kind of like me and this blog.
Anyway, Sunday mornings I usually read the NY Times, it's a big-ass phone book weight pile of paper that takes a good 4 hours to cull through and that's only if you skip any articles that deal with politics, Kim Kardashian, why you will never be classy enough to understand modern dance and every other story that aims to explain why exotic travel is just the best thing ever, except for the times when you get kidnapped and sold into a brothel 10,000 miles away from home.
Anyway, I digress…
So there is a small weekly article called "Sunday Routine". Generally the article is a multi-point description of a particular person and what they do in NYC on a Sunday. They are generally very interesting and fun to read and I look forward to them…until today.
The person they chose this week was Irv "Mr. G" Gikovsky. He has been around since I was a kid and he is a fairly famous weatherman, although I think I am supposed to call him a "meteorologist" cause that sounds better than "guy who gets things right 15% of the time".
Anyway, one of the things they touched on was that he is currently training for the NYC Marathon. It is no doubt, a difficult task, I have friends who train and run it, it takes quite a bit of discipline, training and fortitude to compete in it. No question.
About this topic, he is quoted as saying:
"The marathon reveals the human spirit at its best".
Nine words that very succinctly prove that people, even educated people are actually stupid.
You have to be kidding me, running a long time reveals the human spirit at its best?
What about people who help get torture victims out of their countries, or people who provide safe haven for battered women, or homeless shelter staff that provide food and clothes to people who have no where else to turn?
What about firefighters? Are there many jobs you know of where the pay sucks and you still run into a goddamn building on fire to save someone's cat?
What about people who jump into frozen lakes to save strangers?
What about the passengers on Flight 93, who gave their lives to stop the hijackers from hitting their target?
How about a zillion other people who make the world a better place. It's a really freakin long list and I'm grateful its long because it tells me that human beings are still worth something.
But I know one thing…Irv "Mr. G" Gikovsky is not on that fuckin list.
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