a theory of Assholes

Jun 25, 2017 05:43

**I concocted all of the below before discovering that this book already exists: https://www.amazon.com/Assholes-Theory-Donald-Aaron-James/dp/0385542038/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8. So I'm not especially clever, but in the hopes that ( Read more... )

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anonymous June 25 2017, 10:46:57 UTC
I love it. I think what you are getting at is... Psychopathology is very hip now. What we have now is a society that has institutional psychopathology (business) and this methodology of exporting psychopathology (which is indifference as a social sport) into an unaccountable, untouchable collective entity is filtering down to smaller and smaller groups. The individual psychopath is a born asshole, and quite possibly a born killer. It takes a village to create mass-psychopathology, to actually have the goal of creating a society of Eric Cartmans ( ... )

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flw June 25 2017, 17:47:17 UTC
lj somehow booted my login but kept the comment. I suspect the Russians...

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sanpaku June 25 2017, 21:04:14 UTC
It made me unscreen it for some reason - maybe your settings? Or mine? This is the first non friends-locked thing I've posted in a while.

Totally agreed, and also agreed about the lack of rules. Turns out "traditionalists" are completely willing to chuck law, tradition, faith out the window when it suits them.

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flw June 26 2017, 12:11:08 UTC
It seems that that's what they are doing from our point of view. They do seem to have a "ehh... just this one time, come on!" attitude. Like... they imagine "crimes" of the Left. All you Leftists... you're all shooting heroin into each other's pee holes at highway rest stops. So, ONE OR TWO times I rigged a real estate market in collusion with fraudulent bank officers to make a few billion dollars, big deal! You're all getting infants addicted to cocaine and then drinking their blood. So you all do what you do and I do what I do. It all evens out in the end ( ... )

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