Sunday, December 30, 2007

I was on the internet as usual, and saw this post about antidepressants. and so I decided to categorize the sort of people who would tell angel she doesn't need her pills or whatever.

I call them the "look at me, I'm a sanctimonious asshole" group or the senior sanctimony club for short. Core beliefs:

1)People are all the same. If I can work 80 hours a week, you can too.
2)Everything is caused by being a bad person. Sleep 12 hours a day? The only reason can be that you are lazy.
3)Although this only applies to other people; if people think you're a dick, they are 'immature'
4)Belief that there is too much kindness and sympathy in the world. They really believe that no one has ever told their target about their personal shortcomings, and if they were enlightened, they'd totally improve.
5)Belief that no one is ever trying and failing- no amount of evidence will change this belief.
6)Belief that you can do anything you put your mind to- of course, this is very funny- now a sensible person would realize, for example, for every paraplegic that ran a marathon, there are a million that haven't, or for every person who pulled themselves up by the bootstraps, there's a million walking around with fucked up boots... but not these folks.
7)there are children starving in Africa, so lactose intolerance is bullshit- i.e. no pain is valid if there's something worse in the world.

1 comment:

pwlsax said...

These egotists are now banding together into tribalists, and reformulating their whining into blunt declarations of destiny. The Alternative Right, they're sometimes called.

Mostly young, all white, all male, and angry with the world in some way, they find it empowering to speak out against kindness, decency, and compassion, calling them fatal weaknesses to society. Their objectives will be familiar to anyone who studied 20th century history: racism, nationalism, violence, and the survival of the strongest.

Imagine the Tea Party gone punk anarchist, and much more articulate, capable of snowing even intelligent young people. They bear watching.