You have to be Rich to be Insane: Report from the Middle

Do you have any Good Junk?
By Pat Darnell

Someday Son, all this will be Yours
03.27.2009
Losing one's mind is not a luxury for the Middle Class. I realize that is "so not fair." Getting help makes you vulnerable if you are already snapping every eight weeks. Generally the stay in the Psyche Ward is six weeks for mental instability. That leaves two weeks in limbo for mid-range earners. like me, since I cannot pay for the extra stay, I end up where I started. I live off the rubbish of others...

Middle Class like me will never actually be able to use Dodo Physics to obtain a Rhino Tank. I will never be on a secret mission nor wake up in a hospital with amnesia. I'll most likely never have a three week vacation. I will babysit the rich, and pay for the poor.

I will never garage rare cars or exotic transports, nor stable sleek horses. That is because dishonesty is not a luxury for the Middle Class; as is neither stealing cars or bicycles. I probably will never Morph, nor ever be able to shoot the moon to change its size. (TransformingSociety)

Writing a silly blog is the only dishonesty a Middle American can get away with... The reason I write a public accessible blog like MooPig Wisdom is to entertain myself. Yes, that is the real reason. Someone, correction, all who call me a close friend, or a father, or a husband, have asked me "do you make money doing all that?"

I feel abhorrence in my gut when asked that... but I reply "no, not yet." As if I really think MooPig Parody could demand regular income...? So not in my plan.

What I am doing is trying to establish a Publishing Clearinghouse Company out of IT attrition. You see, as nations move through the conflagration of the internet microcosm, more and more junk is left behind in mounting piles.

Some of the trash falls back into the atmosphere and burns up... but like any flea market worth its fleas, there is lots of stuff, good, almost new stuff, left behind. (DumpsterDiving withDee)

Dumpster Diving has been my intention the whole time; it is a low tech technique to support my high tech craving family. Kapish? Resources for tomorrow's garage-bench enterprise starts in today's man made mountains of left-overs. (Tao of Dumpster Diving)

That's today's Report from the Middle -- Here where the public schools are social gathering places, women are strong, and men are all good looking. Its empirical knowledge, it is fact, not brag! pd

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[Ryan Beiler is Web editor for Sojourners. He’s been dumpster diving regularly since June 2005. SOURCE]