Why are you so terribly disappointing? Mark Morford

[madokie]

Why are you so terribly disappointing?
By Mark Morford

" target="_blank">We don't like anything right now. No politician, no decision, no situation, no inhale, no exhale. We are sick to death of all of it, including ourselves.

Can you blame us? Have you seen how many things there to be disappointed about these days? Love. Sex. Marriage. Stock market. God. Gas mileage. Death. Air travel. 5/9ths of the Supreme Court. It's all just a big goddamn letdown. The list is endless. And getting endlesser.

The evidence is everywhere. I calculate it took about seven minutes, give or take, after Steve Jobs finished introducing the shinypretty iPad before the whiny attacks on the wondergizmo began flooding in, how it didn't have this or that expected feature, how it can't do live video chat, doesn't have Flash, the bezel is too big and it won't double as a meat thermometer, how it doesn't really revolutionize much of anything despite how it's, you know, this gorgeous 1.5-inch slab of aluminum and glass that works flawlessly and can perform roughly one thousand tasks in a more fluid and astonishing way than any device of its kind in history.

Big f--ing deal. We just do not care. It's all a big disappointment. Hey, I was expecting to be blown away. I was expecting miracles and transformations and multiple twitching orgasms on sight. Do not come at me with tantalizing promises only to reveal that you can fulfill most of them to a fairly good degree, and not far exceed all of them in every imaginable way. We're Americans, goddammit. Ye shall know us by the tang of our bitter and untenable jadedness. ...

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[asdjrocky]

1. I want my flying car.

[madokie]

2. Screw that,

I want my country back then we can have anything we want

[Fumesucker]

3. You and the teabuggers both..

And you both can't get the exact opposite things you say you want.

[madokie]

5. And your suggestion is?

what exactly ;-)

[Fumesucker]

8. I mentioned the Hope For Haiti concert to my son in law the other night..

He said something about how he was tired of hearing about Haiti when we have so many problems here, not in a cruel way but more in exasperation.

I'll tell you what I told him, we disagree so strongly as a people not only on what the solutions might be but on what the problems are in the first place that I'm not sure we can ever reach solutions at all, there is always one group or another that's going to be trying to throw a monkey-wrench into whatever gears some of the rest of us are trying to get moving.

Haiti is a good distraction in some ways, the immediate problems are so straightforward and obvious that it kind of takes our minds off our apparently intractable problems here.

[madokie]

10. Thats so true

[ThomWV]

6. I want a flying submarine that mixes drinks, feeds the dog, and holds the old lady at bay.

[SoCalDem]

16. I just want a cat that shits flowers

and a million or two in the bank.. that's all:)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Morford is right on, as usual.

[DisgustedInMN]

7. I see...

..so expecting decent government by honest politicians that do the things they promise they are going to do, is the same thing as wanting flying cars, magic electronic devices and a pony....

That about it, friend?

I get it.

.. and I'm quite confident that our DC bubble crowd will continue to live down to your expectations.

Thanks a lot.

[cilla4progress]

9. It's a useful perspective

and I find his writing grand. I try to stay open. Not everything is / isn't. This set me off in a better mood for today....despite my recent layoff and unsuccessful job search.

[DisgustedInMN]

12. Sorry to hear..

... about your layoff...

Hopefully yours won't be so long as to make it impossible to take joking about being unemployed as anything but condescending and insulting, as mine has. When you are close to losing everything you've worked your entire life for, humor takes on a different face.

[cilla4progress]

15. Likewise...

it sucks, doesn't it? Fortunately for me, I live in a 2-income household, which keeps the hounds at bay. For me, it will probably just mean loss of my professional trajectory, and a return to my pre-education "career," waitressing. At 54 y.o., I'm not a very attractive prospect to many employers,I'm afraid.

[donco6]

11. I want a Star Trek transporter.

Not a Galaxy Quest version - the real one. And I want it NOW.

[NC_Nurse]

13. LOL. "...failing as our own personal Super Jesus." So true.

Obama can't win for losing.

[lumberjack_jeff]

14. Brillliant stuff. K&R n/t