PHILOSOPHERS AND CARTOONISTS LIVE LONGER THAN DRAG QUEENS AND FOOTBALLERS….

IT ONLY TAKES A FEW YOUNG YEARS TO DEVELOP A BODY THAT CAN PLAY FOOTBALL OR TENNIS. 

MIND YOU, NOT EVERYONE HAS THE PHYSIQUE TO BECOME A SPORTS STAR, BUT MOST PEOPLE CAN AT LEAST SHUFFLE AROUND THE BLOCK, THOUGH THE INVENTION OF THE DRIVE-IN FAST-FOOD OUTLET WAS DESIGNED TO PUT A STOP TO THIS… 

SPORTS ARE ENERGETIC PASS-TIMES THAT ONLY DO REQUIRE A TINY BIT OF PHILOSOPHY: 

“MY PHILOSOPHY IS TO WIN THE GAME — AND TO DO BETTER NEXT TIME”. FULL STOP. END OF PURPOSE.

BUT SOONER THAN THE WILLOW OF A CRICKET BAT CAN ROT IN THE SUMMER RAIN, THE MUSCLES, THE JOINTS AND THE AGILITY OF THE SPORTS PERSON BECOME USELESS. 

BEFORE 35 YEARS OF AGE THE SPORTS PERSON OFTEN BECOMES A COMMENTATOR ABOUT THE SPORT HE/SHE WAS INVOLVED IN — OR TRIES TO BECOME A POLITICIAN WHICH IS FRAUGHT WITH NAKED BODS INVADING THE PITCH. IN SHORT, BY THE AGE OF THIRTY-SEVEN, THE SPORTS PERSON IS REDUNDANT, ACHY AND IN NEED OF KNEE REPLACEMENTS. AND THIS IS NOT GOING TO IMPROVE. SOME SPORTS PEOPLE "KARK IT" BEFORE REACHING SIXTY…

MEANWHILE THE CARTOONIST AND THE PHILOSOPHER GO FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH, WITH AN INCREASING BAGAGE OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE SUBJECTS THEREOF OF THE STUPIDITY (I BEG MERCY) OF HUMANITY. IT’S A QUESTION OF SMART OBSERVATION EVEN IF THE OLD EYES ARE FAILING AND THE HANDS TREMBLE. SURE, NOT EVERYONE CAN BE A PHILOSOPHER OR A CARTOONIST. SOME OLDIES PREFER TO PLAY BOWLS OR JOIN OTHER OLDIES AT "THE VILLAGES". YOU KNOW. THERE, THEY PREPARE YOU FOR HIGHER PASTURES, AND THE MORE GENEROUS YOU ARE TO THE ADMINISTRATION, THE CLOSER YOU WILL BE SITTING TO THE ETERNAL BEARDED MAN.

BUT, ON AVERAGE, UNLESS ONE FOLLOWS THE WELL-TRODDEN NEED TO BECOME A CAPITALIST BY FORTY, AFTER HAVING BEEN A SOCIALIST AT TWENTY, WHICH SHOWS A TOTAL LACK OF PHILOSOPHICAL CONSISTENCY, THE PHILOSOPHER FINDS MORE AND MORE IDEAS TO SATISFY THE HUMAN CONDITION ON A HIGHER SHARING LEVEL, WHILE THE CARTOONIST BECOMES MORE SKILLED AT EXPOSING A GOVERNMENT FULL OF HUBRIS. NOT ALWAYS SPOT ON. WE’RE BIASED.

YET, LIKE GOOD WINES, THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE CARTOONIST IMPROVE WITH AGE. ONE ONLY NEEDS TO FOLLOW NOAM CHOMSKY, NOW 94 YEARS OLD AND STILL PUSHING HIGH LEVEL OF REBELLIOUS PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS. THERE AGAIN, ONE GUS LEONISKY, CARTOONING SINCE 1951, CAN ONLY TRY TO IMPROVE THE FIGHTING SPIRIT AS GOVERNMENTS BECOME MORE AND MORE IDIOTIC. YEP. SINCE THESE 1950s DAYS OF USELESS MANAGEMENT FROM SELF-IMPORTANT LEADERS, MOST WORLD GOVERNMENTS HAVE GONE DOWN-HILL TOWARDS THE CESS-PIT OF HELL, IN INCREMENTS OF DECEITFUL EVIL LOONITUDE — IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRATIC FREEDOM TO BE CRAP. WE, PHILOSOPHERS AND CARTOONISTS, TRY TO AVOID BEING CRAP... NOT AS EASY AS IT SEEMS.

IN REALITY, NOTHING MUCH HAS CHANGED SINCE THE DAYS OF RABELAIS, OF VOLTAIRE AND OF DANTE (Dante Alighieri) WHEN MOST OF THE POPULACE WERE ILLITERATE. NOW LITERACY IS SEVERELY LINKED TO THE THUMBS ON A SMARTPHONE. 

FOR THE LAST 250 YEARS, SOME OF THE UNFORTUNATE UP AND DOWN OF OUR LITTLE WORLD WERE INVENTED BY ECONOMISTS SUCH AS ADAM SMITH AND OTHERS, IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THE WORTH OF WHAT YOU WANT AND WHAT YOU CAN’T GET.

ECONOMISTS ARE A BREED OF DOGS THAT PISS ON ALL THE TREES AROUND THE PLACE, WITH THE FUTURE IN MIND. 

SO THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE CARTOONIST HAVE TO ATTACK THE ECONOMISTS AS WELL. COMICS SUCH AS BIRD AND FORTUNE DID IT VERY WELL. UNFORTUNATELY, ECONOMISTS BREED FAR QUICKER THAN US, THE SATIRISTS, OFTEN FORCING US TO BECOME SARCASTIC — AND NOT ONLY THIS, MANY OF THE SILLY CLOWNS BECOME POLITICIANS LIKE BOJO. 

AMUSING BUT USELESS.

WITH ECONOMISTS COMES AN ARRAY OF STATISTICS.

WHILE PHILOSOPHERS CAN’T SURVIVE WITHOUT IDEAS, AND WHILE CARTOONISTS CAN’T BE WITHOUT A PEN, A PENCIL OR A BRUSH — ECONOMISTS DON’T EXIST WITHOUT STATISTICS. 

STATISTICS ARE THE BANE OF HUMANITY. THEY ARE USED LIKE TORTURE INSTRUMENTS AND VOODOO SPELLS. WE KNOW STATISTICS LIE, BUT WE STILL TRUST THEM WHEN THEY ARE IN OUR FAVOUR.

STATISTICS HAVE ARCANE LINKS WITH ASTROLOGY AND PSEUDO-MATHEMATICS DESIGNED TO MAKE US IGNORANT OR BE BEDAZZLED BY THE ENORMOUS SUMS BETWEEN TRILLION SQUILLIONS AND OUR PALTRY PENSION. PHILOSOPHERS AND CARTOONISTS ARE MORE OFTEN THAN NOT ON A PENSION, UNLESS THEY ARE CARTOONISTS DOING THE AMUSING WORK FOR CAPITALISTS ON A MURDOCH NEWSPAPER — UNTIL THEY BECOME REDUNDANT LIKE AT THE NEW YORK TIMES. 

IN THE MEDIA, BIASED JOURNALISTS ARE USED, INSTEAD OF CRAFTY PHILOSOPHERS, TO EXPRESS OUTRAGEOUS POINT OF VIEWS. THE TRUTH (WHATEVER BONE OF CONTENTION THAT IS) IS MANGLED, DIGESTED AND SPEWED LIKE A DOG’S BREAKFAST. IT'S COLOURFUL, ACIDIC AND REVOLTINGLY SMELLY.

MEANWHILE, DRAG QUEENS CARRY ON LIP-SYNCING BAUDY SONGS TILL THEY DON’T FIT INTO THEIR SEQUINS..… THEY CAN AT LEAST LAST A BIT LONGER THAN SPORTS PEOPLE.

AH… ONE REMEMBERS THE GOOD OLD PHILOSOPHICAL DAYS OF “LES GIRLS” IN KINGS CROSS, SYDNEY….

AND I FORGOT TO MENTION THE MAGIC WORD: MONEY.....

GUS LEONISKY

RABID ATHEIST.

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