The Heir has serious doubts as to whether the human race will survive in 100 years time, mainly because of our increasingly restrictive society.  Reflecting on our post regarding the intellectual disabilities of those that government jobs tend to attract, they think that they can lay down a heavy-handed policy and expect utter compliance without question.  They don't understand that even though people may comply with the initial policies at first, their compliance will become more grudging over time, with more and increasingly heavy-handed policies being adopted.  Also because of suburban sprawl, people will be ignorant of their own basic natures having been cut off from a natural way of knowing.  So they will be more frustrated and more mentally stunted, and will take their frustrations out on each other in 2111.  Within two years after that, we will succeed at destroying each other, and once 2113 rolls around, exactly 100 years later, there will be absolutely no humans left.  We will be finished in a very shameful way.

Bachelor found out through others that there already are, in fact, laws against certain tinted back windshields and against tinted license plate covers.  Appears as though the problem is a dearth of enforcement funds on the road, and/or lack of social and political will.  Hopefully that will start to change after that tragedy in Brooklyn a week ago.

Bachelor isn't sure when people are looking at picture of a naked girl with heavy tats, are they looking at her tats, or just at her?

With the situation with the neighboring beach, the Bachelor sees it like proposing tearing down the French Quarter and replacing it with white plastic expensive condos.  Culture and subcultures are being threatened.  Other than that we don't want to keep flogging it (it's too depressing).  But the Bachelor wonders whether government jobs such as the ones for Lena Kotschmann's superiors tend to attract people with Aspergers Syndrome, or what Lyle Chargeoshack calls "Ass Burgers." Aspergers partly involves the inability to get other people emotionally, including what people value in culture and subcultures.  Also government jobs such as the ones in parks and recreation believe it has to be all top-down regardless of whether that's the best approach, so Ms. Kotschmann has no choice but to obey the orders of those who probably have Aspergers.  Again, how exactly does lip service regarding essentials economics address that situation?

The Observation That We Now Live In The Responsibility Age. On audio: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/thehappybachelor.m3u

Transcript of latest adventure available at: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/

Bachelor just saw a preview ad on YouTube for Olympus Has Fallen.  And it sure has!  The planes coming out of nowhere destroying the White House and causing the Washington Monument to fall in the way that it did.  And it probably would fall like that even though it's only 500 feet tall.  The enemy would target the Washington Monument the first chance he gets, regardless of whether it's open for business or closed for maintenance.  What matters is the ability to make the onlookers in the city all upset at the desecration of historical architecture.  And then later on in the movie a set of expensive condos go up where the Monument used to be.  Turns out Toll Brothers was planning to kill the Monument for themselves to build the condos.  We'll see whether Olympus having fallen will change the minds of people with a dim view of Washington politics, which is almost everyone!

People, please keep an eye on http://naturistaction.org/AlertsAdvisoriesUpdates/ADVISORIES/NY_2013_NPS_Fire_Island_02-10-/ny_2013_nps_fire_island_02-10-.html, http://naturistaction.org/AlertsAdvisoriesUpdates/Current/current.html and http://naturistaction.org/AlertsAdvisoriesUpdates/alertsadvisoriesupdates.html regarding a neighboring beach thankfully not ours, but let's keep both safe.  They're asking for a donation to help with this counsel and hopefully it'll still help even though it's nearly a month after they filed that advisory.  Don't worry about the occasional "bleeding heart" language in their press releases, they actually do good work and get results.  NAC won't say this, but this along with the anti-nudity assault on San Francisco seems, again, like the consequences of our living in The Responsibility Age.  What we want to ask is, what good does it to retain essentials economics if we can't use it to do the things we want the way we want?  To what degree is a living wage all that useful in an increasingly hardened and restricted world?  Both survive and have fun!  So says the Bachelor.

Some good news, people, about the beach.  At some point we'll need to lay down some ground rules for ourselves about links on our announcements list that may be more appropriate for the site itself.  But for the time being, this link talks about scheduled opening dates, factors how they decided, and some public wonk stuff about how they made it possible: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/03/portions_of_sandy_hook_with_35.html#in

Also we're expecting our next episode some time next week, unless the Heir's tax forms give him more problems.  But you'll notice some new girlfriends listed in the Happy Bachelor Family/Universe section of the web site when the episode comes out.  And we'll need to talk about Letitia at some point.

The Heir thinks the government's case in the cannibal cop case is weakening, because the prosecutors are trying for shock value alone to try to get a conviction.  None of the evidence they presented is material to the specific charges.  But because the jury is made up of educated New Yorkers, they will vote to convict anyway to buttress their educated disapproval of the fetish concept, which they probably secretly believe only inarticulate yokels have.  They never learned in school what they saw at the trial after all, so once they convict, it will cast education in a dim light, reinforcing the notion that education is separate from common sense.

A couple of weeks ago, the Bachelor was listening on audio about a plagiarism scandal at a major university.  The information did observe that people generally don't produce citations for their claims during casual discussion (as much as they should for a term paper).  The Heir doesn't think that's right.  He believes it should be part of social etiquette for people to at least say, "According to [information outlet X], [claim]," or "[information outlet X] reports that [claim]."  It's important to make sure that casual oversights don't end up socially slipping upward into the schools.  The points of separation are as follows: Casual conversation -> Gossip rag -> Vanilla media -> Social sphere -> Schools.  It'll help schools from coming off as elitist if there's this social standard.

If in fact the "sequester" goes into effect, the Bachelor expects at least one of a particular suite of political vanillas to blame ordinary people, political skeptics and pro-sex political skeptics for their supposed complacency.  They'll claim that we all should have joined the correct political group, and to be subject to that group's every whim and command no matter the cost of such involvement to the skeptics that would be sucked into joining.  Heir's suspicious that the political vanillas intend to stand aside and allow the sequester to happen, to try to guilt people into joining those groups against their better judgment, and which they quit seven years ago.  The political vanillas will point to the sequester that will happen and go, "See how bad it can get?  Because you people allowed this to happen."

No, guys, it's not we the people who are to blame, it's you the political vanillas that we the people voted into office specifically to make sure there aren't any sequesters, fiscal cliffs, debt ceilings or Monetary Mooseheads.  Do your job, and don't even think of blaming us for stuff.

In their next episode, the Bachelor plans a postmortem criticism of Facebook's kitschy culture.  Strangely enough, the Heir has recently noticed a reduction in the number of Facebook posts where people talk about what they ate for breakfast.  Seems as though the tide may be turning.

The Bachelor wants to avoid posting an announcement about something they would talk about on audio anyway.  They treat it as two categories of topics.  So hopefully now Heir's done beating the Argo horse when he points out that Argo probably would not have gotten the attacks that it has if it didn't win best movie.  But Argo's opponents won't bother going after Lincoln or that 90 second animated short as somehow bearing historical inaccuracies.