Warning: This blog is not intended for the faint of heart, those weak in the knees, hypocrites, old nun, old farts, and people who have a pole up their butt.
You know how astrologers are all into planets and stars aligning? Well, lately my planets have been crashing into my stars, so I do not apologize for anything I blog in this blog. I own the content and take full responsibility for the views expressed herein.
In my opinion, and since this is MY blog, that’s the only opinion I really care about, the greatest moment in The Wizard of Oz was when Dorothy deliberately and with malice in her heart picked up the bucket of water and gleefully threw it on the witch. (Unfortunately the gutless producers of the movie filmed the sequence to look like Dorothy’s action was unintentional and the resulting witch-melting was a regrettable outcome.)
Okay, where am I going with this blog. Some background might help.
Look up the word “good” in the dictionary and you’ll see my picture:
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And by “good” I don’t mean noble or virtuous. I mean good as in “well-behaved.” I was good from day one. And if nice people finish last, good people don’t finish at all. Not that I’m against goodness. There is a place for it, but that place isn’t in the real world.
At this point in my life I have seen enough to know that there are two types of people in the world. On the one hand there are the egocentric…and egocentrics are like powerful magnets. They attract other excentrics…and in the end you have this powerful (m)ass of egocentrics who basically rule the world. And one of the characteristics of an egocentrics is this overpowering urge to kiss ass…as long as someone returns the favor.
And because magnets have two poles, eccentrics tend to repel those who are not egocentrics.
Now, you can find egocentrics in all walks of life and you’ll find they come in different sizes. Egocentrics can be anyone…but what makes them so abhorrent (to me) is that they abuse power. They tend not to use their power when they are in the presence of future egocentrics, but when they are in the presence of “good” i.e. well-behaved and well-mannered people they are in their element.
As a result, good people (perhaps you can call them powerless people) can be beaten down. Now, I’m not an African-American and I’ve never been a slave, but I can certainly empathize with those souls who were slaves. In order to survive they had to do the shuffle and say “yes master” and “no master.” And even though Lincoln freed the slave, it took over a century and a half for the descendants of slaves to throw off the psychological chains that had kept them in a constant state of bondage. And to anyone with any understanding of what it means to be in bondage, you will certainly understand why there were so many decades of violence in Black communities.
If I had to do it over again I would not be good. Not that I would have wanted to be an egocentric asshole, but I certainly would have tossed a bucket or two over some real assholes.
I think we, as parents, go to great lengths to raise “good” kids. But are we doing them a favor or a disservice? I sometimes think we are doing them a disservice. When we teach our children how to talk, one of the words (or phrase) we need to teach them is: FU! and then tell them to use the expression judiciously.
I’ll never forget when my son Nicholas came home from high school with a quiz marked by Dr. Cohen. She marked a few questions wrong that were actually right. The good doctor told Nick that it didn’t matter how the dictionary defined the words, she had her own definitions.
Nick would have been right to have told her to F herself.
I went up to talk to Dr. C and all I can tell you was she acted like a total asshole. Had I not been a good person, I would..and should have told her to shove her doctorate up her ass.
The problem in the world today isn’t so much a recession as it is an abundance of egocentric assholes.
I say go out and find a bucket and start tossing water on the assholes in your life. You’ll feel “good” when you do it.
