Everyone in Bakersfield is a caricature of themselves, they try to exaggerate themselves, I guess that is human nature, primitive human nature. The way all primates puff themselves up to look bigger to the next one, or the opposite sex. I guess exaggerating oneself is in our roots, well actually in our tree.
To put it better, everyone in Bakersfield is playing them self. They have all become stereo types of themselves. They see themselves going through a life that is tolerable, no reason to change, same bar, same people, another day here, another decade here.
But inside them, there is a part leading a life of quiet desperation. They have worked their lives and never questioned, and now this is what they get? They could have done something else with their lives, something they could tell a child and that child would say, "Wow, You really did that?"
But everyone here is just looking for a place for their final years. I don't think it is a threat yet because it is so obvious, I have always been an observer of people. To my credit those that know me know that I observe pretty much in pure observation. I believe most people observe trying to prove something to them self.
Where many believe that if you can prove something over and over that is "scientific". What they often fail to understand is the concept of "repetition".
Bakersfield needs city supported "support" groups because if you want a discouragement group? They are everywhere.
I have never heard the expression in our roots, well actually in our trees.
William Blackfeather, Dec. 14, 2009
