Seems like everything is a hustle

Last night, just before retiring, I came across some 911 Truther videos.  At first, I began to believe this stuff, which was probably a danger signal.  It seems to me that there are so many signs of dishonesty out there in the world, so that an attempt to persuade like the Truthers like to do was enough to get me to seriously consider their point of view.  Then I thought, no.  The system hasn't gotten that bad.  Not yet.

It may be a bit naive of me, but I think there's still enough good things.  Some good, some bad.  Maybe it has always been so.  It wasn't such a long time ago that I remember watching an old Dick Van Dyke TV show.  In that episode, there was a pool hall hustler that got Rob Petrie ( Dick Van Dyke) suckered into a game in which he would hustle Petrie for money.

So, back to the real world.  I got to thinking once again about the Truthers.  It could well be nothing but a hustle.  It's just their way of making some money off some marks.  Just follow the money.  Look at where they start asking for money.  It turns out that that is like so many other things in life.  Hustling isn't new.  Heck, I read something in a novel that produced the quote "everything's a hustle".  The setting for the book was in the thirties.  So, that's just to show you that it isn't a new phenomenon.  That's the way to look at things.  Everybody's out there with their hustle to try to get money out of somebody else.  It has always been true.

You know, you can get really paranoid about this stuff.  You start to look for somebody's angle when they come at you with their requests for money.  You get to where you are always expecting to be hustled.  And so you are.  Everywhere you look, there's a hustle.

If you want to think of it on a large scale, you can say the entire society has become a hustle.  Politics is a hustle.  They hustle you for campaign donations.  They hustle you for more taxes.  They hustle you for more social programs.  They hustle you for carbon trading schemes.  It's all a hustle.  Everywhere you look.  The 911 Truthers are hustling you for money somehow.

How to recognize a hustle?  It is a game.  Every game has at its heart a bit of dishonesty.  When it comes to hustling, it is a game of larceny.  The dishonesty is the insincerity of the ideas presented.  They really don't believe the stuff they are telling you, but they need to convince you of it so as to get you to support their idea.  Then comes the grab for your money.