Friday, September 3, 2010

It's an OUTRAGE

Just the other day while I was standing there waiting for the bus I noticed some Yeshiva guys throwing papers into the street. I can't understand how they could be acting in such a horrible fashion. It's a real degradation. We should teach our children better.

Just the other day I saw a old chassidishe fellow with a beard, peyos, kappel, and cane hitting a Yeshiva buchur who was throwing papers into the street. I can't understand how old people can be acting this way. Don't they realize that we pay their social security. It's a real Shanda. We should have trained our old people better.

Just the other day as I was driving home from work I heard two Rabbunim discussing the problems that were going on in the world. They blamed it all on shlumpy dressed women. If only women dressed with more material on the billboards children would behave and old men would leave their canes at home. I don't understand these out of touch Rabbis. Don't they understand the simple idea of cause and effect. The reason all the bad stuff happens in our society is because sfardi Jews have been eating rice on pesach and making all the ashkinazi Jews jealous.

Just the other day, a couple of days ago in fact, I noticed a bag of rice that had some weevils in it bearing an kashrus seal on it. How can these Rabbis tell us not to drink bugs when they put a symbol on stuff that has little bugs in it. I am outraged. Just because bugs have extra protein doesn't mean they should become kosher.


And the joke goes on..... Outrage over schools not opening for budgetary reasons. Outrage over bad kiruv practices. Outrage over lack of Rationalism. Outrage over too much rationalism. General outrage over the lack of outrage. And don't forget the outrage for not putting all your faith in Secular Governments to solve child molestation cases. The outrage of allowing the government to get involve in something a Baisdin should have been consulted on first. O, don't forget the Mask in Honor of 9/11, what an outrage!

Have you ever noticed that these outrages seem to come in a cycle? Maybe it's just me noticing them. It seems like people need something or other to get excited about. If it's not something real it has to be the sports team that's playing that day.


It seems to me that all this OUTRAGE is just a product of our inability to live in close proximity to people who have different values than we do. Instead of our outrage being manifested in riots, as happens in Israel, we just spew meaningless words to make ourselves feel better and imagine that we are actually doing something to promote our own cause.

The framers of the constitution were smart when they put in freedom of speech. You can say what you want, you can argue the point, you can even rant and rave, but you can never really change anything.

By the way: The first four paragraphs never happened. That would be crazy wouldn't it? How outrageous.