So last night, we rushed our youngest daughter to the emergency room. Don’t worry, she’s fine. It was a gigantic exercise in futility anyhow and we wound up walking out because they were completely incompetent. That’s not the story though, because while we were there, I got to see two things going on.

Neither of them are things that anyone ought to be proud of.

First, when we arrived, there was a black guy sitting in a wheelchair. Apparently, he’d been brought in by an ambulance. It was clear, immediately, that there was something seriously wrong with him upstairs, which I think plays into what I’m going to say, but, honestly, they were just ignoring him and allowing him to harass and bother other people waiting. The “security guard station” was almost entirely unattended and the guy that walked by once or twice in the 5+ hours we were there, other than saying “you shouldn’t be sprawled out all over the floor”, he didn’t do a thing about it.

That’s part of the incompetence, granted, and I’m sure that with a lot of the homeless and/or racist laws in California, they can’t say anything about it, which is why he was being ignored. Still, he spent hours yelling at the nurses and they all hid in the back like a bunch of cowards. That’s not what I wanted to address though.

This guy, who was, at the time, the only black person in the emergency room, although a couple more came through later, he kept yelling that everyone was racist. Everyone. Nobody was catering directly to him, therefore… they hated black people. Not that he was an asshole that was causing a fuss, nope, it’s all about his skin color and he wanted everyone to know it.

Yeah, screw you dude.

The problem is that a lot of black people, and to be fair, other minorities do this as well, they’ve been taught that screaming about racism is the fastest way to get attention. No, they’re not ignoring you because you’re an obnoxious imbecile, it’s because you’re black. I guess being out of his mind doesn’t hurt. They needed to come over and shoot him up with thorazine to shut him up, but instead, they were too busy hiding from their responsibilities in the back.

The second part was a video that they had running constantly. It was repeating over and over and one part of it was about bullying. I’m not sure why bullying videos need to be playing in the emergency room, but whatever. At least it’s something to watch. Yet the video was just ludicrous. “Bullying is anyone saying anything mean to you!” Not harmful. Not violent. Not actually doing anything demonstrably wrong, just something you don’t like.

Yeah, fuck you. This is why the world is as pathetic as it is. People don’t have a backbone. We’ve turned into a nation of  crybabies, where if anything doesn’t go their way, they want to have some authority figure come and hold their hand.

What the hell is wrong with people?

Back in my day, if someone said something mean to you, you shrugged it off. If someone took a swing at you, you fought back. You might get beat up, but at least you tried. You didn’t  curl up into the fetal position and cry about it. Now I’m not saying that anyone should beat anyone else up. That’s already a crime. Assault has well-defined legal penalties. If someone is uploading naked pictures of you online, that’s a crime too. Those people should be punished. However, if someone says some mean words to you, you have to be able to get over it. Grow the hell up. That’s the biggest problem that we face today. People are infants. Knock it off.

This is really what’s gone wrong with humanity. We’ve turned from a people who could take care of themselves and stand on their own two feet, to people who suck their thumb into adulthood, if they can even make it that far. Nobody wants to be responsible for themselves. They want to be eternal children, watched over by some authority figure from afar, so nothing bad happens to them. It’s just that the definition of “bad” becomes more and more pathetic as time goes on. People are realizing that they can game the system by pretending that “bad things” are happening when, in reality, they’re not. It’s just that most people are too dumb not to realize they are being manipulated.

How pathetic.