Your Face

I'm tired of talking about relationships, at least for the moment.

It seems that this Kony phenomenon is pretty popular, so I suppose I'll mention it before I get on with my actual post.

Kony is a warlord in Africa, woop dee doo. He kidnaps children. Okay, that's not so cool. A team of scumbag filmmakers produce a good quality video about Kony. Entire country flips shit. It really amazes me, how easily people can be rallied behind a cause, even if all of that rallying occurs via retweets, hashtags, and like buttons. Armchair activism powers activate! Let's send money too! We hate being in Iraq and Afghanistan, but by George if we don't invade Uganda (which isn't even where Kony is anymore) America is totally effed. It pisses me off how quick people are to jump behind things they know nothing about, which is mainly why I'm skeptical of almost anything, even good things, and one reason I dislike people in general as well as this country. James Baldwin once said, "I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."

People are absolutely the most frustrating animals on the face of this planet. It's 60 degrees outside lady, turn the f*cking heat down. I'm sorry if I notice you're wearing revealing clothing, you stupid b*tch. I'm sorry but I'm not sorry that I'm upfront and blunt with what I think about what you're saying/doing. Sorry, not sorry when I think you're totally full of shit. Seriously people, I know bullshit when I see it and the only thing that aggravates me more than dealing with bullshit is dealing with people creating a more massive shitstorm when you say to them, "you're completely full of shit and I'm telling you so, so you're aware that not everyone cares for your haughty and removed demeanor you facile f*ck."

Let me give an example:

Person: What's a weird quirk you have about you?

Me: I tear my hangnails off all the time.

Person: Eeeewwwwwww, that's disgusting!

Me: You asked me for a quirk/weird thing that I do, which is a quirk is in the first place. Get over yourself.

Person: No you're gross...la la la la la la la la la fuck you I'm better than you you're stupid aaaaaahhhhhhhh I WIN!!!

Me: What's one quirk about you?

Person: Don't talk to me.

Me: Come on tell me.

Person: It's awkward.

Me: It's only awkward if you make it awkward, so tell me.

Person: I like to have sex with dead bodies.

Me: That's a psychological illness, you should probably get help with that.

Person: NO I DON'T NEED HELP AAAAAHHHHH I DON'T LIKE YOU AAAAAHHHHHHH SHUT UP SHUT UP

Me: I'll slice your face off if you don't stop.

Person: AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH DON'T TALK TO ME AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH
I WIN AGAIN!!!

Me: *walks over to their house and stabs them 29 times in the chest, slices the face off, wraps their body in plastic, loads them in the trunk, drives out to the desert and digs a vertical grave for the corpse, lowers it in and covers it back up, drives away whistling*

People are immature, subversive, selfish, and stupid. Have you ever gone to high school? It really fascinates me that when we're little we are taught to love and respect each other out of the goodness of being a person, but as we age, for reasons I can't accurately explain, all of us, no matter how cheerful and pure, gain a perspective of some cynicism toward the world. It really is a sad thing I think, the fact that humans don't get along with each other. And it's even a sadder thing to think that many of us have this notion when we are younger that when we grow up everyone will get along and the world will have many less suffering souls. That would make things too nice though.

How do we remedy this? Does it even need to be remedied? I don't know. I would say yes, people should be nicer to each other just to be nice to them, but then I would be a hypocrite because there are some people that I will always treat a certain way. Think about it. One is often told that you can't judge a book by it's cover. This much may be true, but it is the most immediately effective approximation of how the book will be. If you were to not form any opinion of anything by judging it at face value, but rather you were explore everything fully and completely before forming your opinion, you'd never make it out of the house. You would read many a terrible book the whole way through before going, "Wow, this book really sucks." Every person that cared to ask you out would have to be listened to and experienced before you realized there is no way you're attracted to them in any way whatsoever.

People judge people. You and I and everyone else judges people. Some judgments are necessary, such as when meeting a new person, you must correctly judge their sex, age, and marital status to interact with them politely. Other judgments aren't as necessary, but they happen anyway, such as what clothes they are wearing, jewelry, hairstyles, relative beauty, etc. Another judgement people we make about each other is skin color. It isn't really a judgment as much as an observation, but our observations about others are the basis of our judgments of them. We see people of a different skin color, what's our first reaction? Many people would like to say no reaction, or a reaction of compassion and kindness. I'm confident when I call bullshit on that. Google "baby studies racism" and you'll find the studies I'm talking about. Think about it. Way back in the day of primeval man, we lived in tribes. Tribes were delicate cooperative groups that survived together. Tribes have to be revolve around a strong sense of trust. If you're in a tribe and all of you are the same color, and one day you meet a different tribe, how do you think you two will react to each other? Even if you're the same color you won't like each other, and if you're different colors you'll most certainly flip out. It's an association thing. You are one color, you grow up around one color, you associate your color with security, home, food, happiness, family, etc. A tribe of another color, even if they're the same color you don't associate them with the same things as your tribe, and because you're in a tribe, and your thought processes are limited, you view a different tribe as a threat. Now maybe over time these two tribes can come to know each other and learn to live collectively, but it's also very probable, if not more probable that they will either try to kill each other or distance themselves from each other.

Humans don't like other humans. It's part of our biological leash of traits we can't escape, no matter how hard we'd like to tell ourselves otherwise.