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Defining a Mucker

I would like to refer anyone who may read this blog to also find and read two books, both written by John Brunner, one in 1968 and the other in A 1972 book, based in the year 2010

1972. The books are: STAND ON ZANZIBAR, and THE SHEEP LOOK UP. Both books are written in a style that is commonly called "train of thought", in which the story is broken into sections as it is told, each section being one of the plotlines of the novel. They are a little difficult to follow, at first, until the reader gets the hang of how the story is being told. While the accepted online definition of mucker is seemingly unrelated, we must ponder that the poor and desperate are those who snap first. Simply put, a mucker "goes over the edge", or "snaps", or simply loses their sanity, and retaliates against apparently innocent people for their perceived injustices. In "The Sheep Look Up", there is a brand of person identified as a "mucker". Most of the reviews I have found for the book refer to them more as the "gone postal" type, using random violence to acheive some personal goal. The world we live in today is filled with them.

Signs of the Times
People, not guns, are the main problem

A timeline of school shooting, worldwide, or leave it to the BBC to only talk about the U.S. school shootings, never minding that these people come from Europe, as well. But it's not only schools that experience this phenomenon. Public shopping areas in Utah, Nebraska, even New York and Illinois have felt the effects. Town meetings, public buildings, and freeways are all possible targets. For the conspriacy buffs, here's a re-take on Oklahoma City. Call it road rage, write psychological profiles, whatever. You might be a psychopath waiting to snap. They are everywhere, and we won't know they are coming until they get here.

Variations on Muckers

Personally, I think there are fledgling muckers who just aren't as dangerous.. They muck up the works. They are muckers. They uncaringly create Muckers aren't just people with guns

dead-end paper trails. They exploit the legal system to the point of bogging it down and reducing its effectiveness in dealing with real judicial issues. They hold up the line at the grocery store while they remember some last minute item that has to be rung up along with this particular 3 dollar purchase. They resolutely refuse to use turn signals on their autos, and park exactly 2 feet over the dividing line in the parking lot. They dump their trash out at any convenient street corner. They jump on whatever bandwagon is passing by at the time.

And worst of all, they have no realization that they are muckers. They point to the Shootings at colleges and schools, and shake their heads. They laugh at trumped up lawsuits perpetrated by greed. But they never look at their own effect in the overall picture. Anyone can be a mucker, and everyone should strive not to be. Forethought is a good place to begin the mucker avoidance. "If I were the person behind me in line, how would I feel about what I am doing right now?" THINK!

Why Are There Muckers?

This is possibly the simplest of today's ills to explain, and only one word is required to do it: Population. If you put too many rats in a cage, or too many dogs in the kennel, too many fish in the pond, or too many people in the city, a certain percentage becomes unstable. This isn't opinion, it is fact. It has been proven again and again in labs across the world. There is a population limit that any group can withstand before the occurence of abnormal behavior becomes the norm.

The Popular Solution

And who, pray tell, are the idiots who have decided the situation can be corrected with psycho(insert latin phrase here) drugs? And I've read recent reports in MAJOR scientific journals to the effect that we should be medicating our children at younger ages. EXCUSE ME?!
These are our children, our offspring, and our future. What is the long-term consequence of putting little Joey Blowey on the kiddie version of prozac? What fool would seriously consider presribing xanax to prepubescent Suzie? What fool would let someone do that to their son or daughter? Let me guess. People who are already on medication themselves.
Xanax - The most popular anti-depressant today

Xanax - The most popular anti-depressant today

That's right, and here's a clue. Before you agree to take mind and mood altering drugs, ask the doctor presribing them for a full list of the medications THEY are taking. We don't want or need Joey and Suzie walking around in a blank-faced fog. This is NOT conducive to a better minded, healthier society. Mama Suzie gets blown away on xanax and she does stupid things.. so she wants her daughter to take the same drugs??? Is there something wrong with the logic there? Oh yeah, that's gonna reduce teen pregnancy. Oh yeah, that's gonna lower teen suicides. Oh yeah, that's a load of malarkey. It's going to increase pregnancy, suicide, violence, rape, and mayhem. Better to let the kids smoke pot. A word of caution on that, though: Perhaps it is depression that increases drug use, and not the other way around. THINK.

Fathers, Be Good to Your Daughters

How about a better idea? Papa Joe and Mama Suzie need to shape up and be parents. They need to turn off the XBOX, turn off the TV, and interact with their children. Take the kids to the park, to the beach, to the library, anywhere that allows the kid to be a kid and at the same time reinforce positive aspects. GET INVOLVED. Having given birth to the children, the responsibility is just getting started.. now comes the 15 to 20 years of making sure that child is a viable product of today's world. No, the child isn't going to want to be made viable. Why should they, when their friends aren't? But come on, do you want YOUR CHILD to kill his/her fifth period teacher because they were failing a class? Do you want your son to hole up in the wooded area of some highway off-ramp and take potshots at total strangers with daddy's thirty aught six? Do you want little suzie to mindlessly blow whatever low-life that tells her it's okay? Do you want me to be less graphic? Change the world, not the definitions.

Remember that word, THINK?

Don't let your babies grow up to be muckers. Teach them, instead, to be anti-muckers. To be the voice of reason in a crowd of dissent. To think

about the consequences of their actions. To be clear-headed and drug free. How can you justify giving little Billy a pill twice a day every day, and then say "Drugs are bad, don't do drugs"???? Teach your children the difference between right and wrong. Use rewards if they work, and if they don't then by all means, use a belt or a paddle. When DCF(Dept. of Children and Families) steps in and says you can't do that, get a lawyer and sue DCF for everything you can get out of them. Don't let a mindless society make you mindless as well. Don't beat your kids, but teach them that actions have reactions. Teach that pain is rewarded with pain and pain is by golly painful. Nobody promised anyone a rose garden, but neither was anyone told that all they'd get is a garbage dump.

Children are the future. They aren't unexpected drawbacks that messed up our lives. They aren't difficult little creatures that simply must be tolerated. They just happen to be the little people who will someday be the big people; and if we teach them drugs and violence, then, hey-- that's what they will teach when it is their turn make the decisions. If little Suzie never sees Mama Suzie without that xanax glaze in her eyes, then little Suzie is gonna wanna do some cool drugs too. After all, mama takes 'em every day, and mama is the bestest mama in the whole world, never mind that she jumps from boyfriend to boyfriend in a never ending stream losing relationships. Never mind that mama spends more each week on alcohol than she does on food.

The Me No One Knows

Am I perfect? Nope. But I religiously avoid prescribed medications. I take my mood control drugs via marijuana, and yes, by god, I inhale. I came from an abusive household, and let me tell you, it scared me when I became a parent. But I vaguely remembered a poster that hung in the office of my elementary school when I was a kid, and strongly remember it's effect on me. I made it my goal in life to NOT be a example from that poster, to not be a duplicate of what my parents were. That my child would never go to school with welts on his buttocks, back and legs. It is not End Child Abuse

written in stone, regardless of what the mind experts say that a child who learns by violence lives by violence. A child who learns by fear sometimes lives by determination, not fear. A child who learns by hate can live to love. And all those kids who grew up learning by love.. do they live by love, or do they live by loss? I broke the cycle, despite having it forced down my throat through elementary and middle school that the cycle wouldn't be broken. Psyche!

On the downside, as you can see, I developed a certain cynical view of the world in the process. But isn't the idea to expect the worst, and strive to not let it happen? Sure, I see the collapse of western civilization, and have seen it coming for 20 years or so... but that hasn't stopped me from trying to warn people. It hasn't stopped me from looking for both solutions AND the root causes. And it isn't really cynical, when you stop reading this, and go back up to the top, where the heading reads SIGNS OF THE TIMES. I can't make the world better, and neither can you. But together, WE can make it better. It has to be a group effort, and the group has to be pretty doggone big. Invite your friends to join the group. Teach your children to be part of the group. Anyone who isn't part of the solution is part of the problem.

End of rant. Don't be a mucker.