Dear White Dudes
I feel your pain brothers. I too am a white dude. Life can be and has been hard. I’m not even poor and life has been hard. Why? I don’t fucking know. It makes no sense to me that life’s a bitch and then you die. I’ve been successful and depressed most of my life. It’s irritating. But enough about me for now.

White dudes don’t have the status now that we think they had in the past. For sure, we don’t have the status of white dudes we see, hear, and read stories about. Most of us don’t have servants to fuck. That life seems limited to the Schwarzeneggers of the world these days. We don’t have women in our lives who feel they need to be submissive like secretaries, housewives, kids, typists, clerical workers, cleaners, retail store workers. Theses women can be respectful, they may defer to a request, but in a customer service way or as an equal. That isn’t that same as submission. The main point is that we are not universally special to a point that we are assumed to be right unless we do something egregious enough to be condemned by other white dudes.
I’m pretty sure this ‘downgrade’ is a western civilization thing, or at least influenced by the ‘success’ of western civilization. Some cultures around the world appear to be resisting the superior male ‘downgrade’ even if extreme violence is required. But it isn’t just a male/female thing. We’ve also had a white dominance which is being chipped away at. Double-whammy! We may have unwillingly accepted women crawling out of submissiveness because, let’s face it, we need pussy. The whole taking a women unwillingly is frowned upon these days by most of us — an egregious act.
What the fuck? Why should we roll over? How did we get here? Ahh, I hear your questions grasshopper. I will add some questions. Were old times really better? What are we afraid of? Could we be getting more pussy than white dudes in the past? Better pussy? Of course it isn’t all about pussy. We want more money, security, and better lifestyle.
You are totally high if you think the average white dude in past generations had more money, security, or a better lifestyle. May be you are thinking about that brief period after over 40 million people were killed in World War II. That could have been a sweet spot for some white dudes in the USA. Not such a sweet spot for white dudes in other countries, and not so special for dudes that died in the war. Are you looking to capture that magical period?
My father was in that sweet spot. He didn’t seem like such a happy go lucky guy, sexually, financially, or in general. And, although he was a Marine, he didn’t have the trauma of fighting in the war. He was off the coast of Japan ready to be the first to invade when the big one was dropped, so he didn’t get the chance to experience a thrilling death or survival.

I do feel your pain, but it is the pain of life in general. It is a universal pain. Actually, our white dude pain in the USA, is a notch or so less severe than universal pain. Imagine having the added weight of people assuming you are lazy or criminal or less smart or less ‘civilized’ because you have a darker shade of skin. Don’t even try to say that isn’t the world we live in now. If you think that is not reality for many darker skinned people then you are a lazy, stupid, uncivilized criminal. Fuck you! You loser!…… How did that rant feel? Not so good right?
Now if you want to whine about the issue of opportunity, I’m somewhat on board. It sure does seem like people are making less money doing crappier work. Even the crappier jobs are getting squeezed out by technology. At the same time, some people are wealthy beyond the point of having everything they want for as long as they live, and they really don’t work any harder than most people. So I might be up for some kind of class war, but I really don’t have a problem with people becoming wealthy. Who the fuck doesn’t want to be wealthy? Maybe we all just need to demand more people get a share of the wealth we help to create.
I’m not poor now because in 1980 I decided I didn’t want to be poor. Instead of pursuing a career in filmmaking I choose to pursue computer science. I didn’t know anything about computer science, I had never even seen a computer. Ronald Reagan was elected President and I thought, “oh, the rich will get richer and everyone else will get poorer and I don’t want to be on the poor side”. It was a choice. It didn’t make me happy, but it didn’t make me poor.
I’ve been told over and over again recently that a person’s life is the result of making choices and following through. That is what happened to me. I didn’t ask to be rich, happy, or for a better lifestyle. I just asked not to be poor. And it happened. I didn’t even feel poor after I lost everything. I had no income. I used credit cards to pay expenses and my credit card debt was way higher than my dwindling bank account balance.
Forget about me. This all has nothing to do with me. I’m just trying to say that your pain doesn’t really have anything to do with black people, mexicans, central americans, chinese, koreans, muslims, jews, atheists, lefties, communists, socialists, anarchists, rich people, politicians, … Seriously, you can blame your pain and circumstances on anyone, but that won’t ease the pain or improve your circumstance. The idea of deciding what you want and doing things to get there is more likely to succeed.