Apocalypse . . .um . . .SOON said:JG: The big picture for me is seeing an ego that just can?t quit, especially the self-reinforcing part. And this ego holds one of the worst hypocrisies I have ever seen: You proclaim that you live in a dog-eat-dog world, where only the strong survive or get ahead. And your force of intelligence makes you the big winner. You spout your cynical-apathy regarding politics and the stupidity of everyone except you?survival of the fittest?which, of course, is you again.
You have said that you have leached off your wife and friends and family in the past. You see this as smart. You are planning to collect Social Security and see that as simply taking advantage of a chaotic and irreversibly sick government. The list goes on forever for you. That?s all you see, some advantage for yourself, some advantage for you if you?re nice to your wife, etc. Pitiful almost.
I see things differently. When you use your wife?s money to help you visit Texas, I see a kind and benevolent woman who does something out of care, concern, and, perhaps, even love. When you eat your parent?s food and loutishly come to this message board to ?honestly? proclaim the advantage you took of them, I see a kind and gentle mother helping her son enjoy a small part of the day with them. Even your public goings on show your stupidity: you bad mouth the local government units that provided you with roads to get to fishing locations, sidewalks to walk the dog, streetlights so that you can see at night and help with crime, and sewers that carry away your refuse. These were often built with tax payer dollars provided by citizens who voluntarily wanted to bring a better life to everyone?even you. Perhaps they weren?t benevolent tax payers, but they were tax payers who thought that civilization and order is better than a dog-eat-dog world, a world of brutal thoughts and behaviors.
Even when you drive your car, you are depending on the orderliness, goodwill, lawfulness of 99.9% of the other drivers 99.9% of the time. But you don?t see that. You see the one miserable driver that doesn?t want to follow the rules and show goodwill. You end up seeing the worst in everyone or thinking the worst about everyone. No wonder guns are so important to you and the final arbiter of all actions
You feed off this stuff, this kindness, this orderliness, this general love and benevolence of all other human beings. Without it, you would have nothing; and yet you don?t see the better half of life, the human side. You stick your head into a dumpster looking for a typewriter that some ?fool? didn?t know was worth twenty dollars and then don?t recognize that you are only there and doing what you do because of the benevolence and goodwill of the property and dumpster owner.
I had a tenant once with an IQ of about 60-70 and a brain filled with cysts. Even he knew that the government and people were good most of time and were helping him. He made the connection.
So, am I wrong in how I see you?
--Greg
It sure does reveal alot about him. These are the type of people that I would love to have as friends and neighbors.
LL