hypocrisy

so i met up with my 3 school friends last night and we went out for a chinese meal just behind leicester square. i hate leicester square. its for tourists. do new yorkers go out for a meal in times square?. no. its the kind of place tourists go to because they don't know the city and where the good places are.

anyways, the whole evening was not as bad as i thought it would be. everyone seems fine although one of them has now found god in a big way and was telling me about how his life has changed for it and how great it is. good for you dude, if it makes you feel better then go for it. at one stage i thought he was going to go on and on and on about it but he wasn't too bad.

i do think it says more about the person he was when he says his life and perspectives have changed. you shouldn't have been such a money obsessed and spiteful little shit before. the rest of us weren't. this is a guy that told me he doesn't declare all his income to his accountant and so avoids paying tax. everyone pays tax and whilst i don't want to pay more than i absolutely have to, i don't resort to hiding a portion of my income, which is against the law. there are people that earn 5 times less than he does who pay a higher proportion of their wage in tax. god or no god, that just not fair.

this is the same guy that told me he interviewed people that were talented and bright but then told his manager that they were inept technically because he didn't want anyone that might jeapordise his own position at his firm. thats a shitty thing to do just on a human level and its deceitful. what did your god say about that?. i bet any money that he is still doing the same after his enlightenment.

my friend who i went on my road trip across america started getting all moralistic on me as well, i recall. when the waitress gave us our bill and it was a few bucks short because she didn't include everything he insisted we tell her, while i was saying we should pay, tip her and leave it. he told me that would be the morally wrong thing to do. this from the person who dropped $2000 on a hooker in las vegas in one night!. this from a person who spent £600 on hookers on a stag weekend in poland. we can't get a $4 orange juice for free but its ok for you to take advantage of these young women for whom the only opportunity to earn above minimum wage is to sell their bodies for sex with strangers. go figure that one out.

this isn't me slamming religion. its just me slamming the hypocrisy of some people. also not all of my friends are in prison or tax cheats and kerb crawlers. most of them are hard working decent people who just get on with their lives and who never attempt to give people lessons on morals or decency whilst forgetting or concealing their own shortcomings. maybe its because they are decent people that they kind of assume, possibly naively, that everyone else is as well. i sense the ones that make a big deal about it and tell people about it, assume everyone else is morally deficient, maybe because they are or were themselves.

today i have mostly been listening to u2 - bad. this is from when they were a good band making interesting music. this is before the hypocrisy set in. this is another from when i used to go to my friends house when i was a kid and we used to listen to his parents and older brothers record collection.