The Real You
You know what I hate? People who think that how you are at work isn't "the real you". Now, I understand that people sometimes act differently in a work setting. I'm one of them. But I'm not talking about the number of curses you use per sentence. I'm talking about deeper character traits.
For example, let's say at work you show yourself to be hard-working, honest, intelligent, you show integrity, you're conscientious...
Hey, that's not the real you!
Well, ok, your favorite color is green, your bathroom floor is dirty, and you've been known to scratch your ass when no one else is looking. Now is that the real you?
Here's a hint. You know that lazy motherfucker at work who promised he would do something for you last month, and now he's surfing the Web and wandering through the office visiting all his friends in cubicle row Q? That's the real him! He really is a mooch, a bum, and an annoying asshole. I don't care whether he coaches his son's soccer team or volunteers twice a week at the church soup kitchen. His real nature sucks and anything else is just a distraction.
Oh, how can you say that about him? That's just the work him."
Oh, really? So you must mean that at home, he actually does his job.
Libertarians
Libertarians give advocates of liberty a bad name. I should have realized this at the first Libertarian party meeting I ever attended.
My dad drove me to the meeting at a nearby library back in high school. All I remember is the guy in the front row who kept trying to defend drug use as "natural". His argument was that it's natural for people to want to mess with their state of consciousness, and his example was kids who purposely make themselves dizzy.
So, I'm wondering: why is this psycho hippy pot-smoker at this meeting? And what exactly does he have to teach me about the principle of individual rights? I left the meeting feeling a little let down, thinking "what a bunch of weirdoes". That was my first and last Libertarian party meeting.
(Just out of curiosity, if you eliminated all the pot smokers from the Libertarian party, do you think there would still be enough people to nominate Howard Stern for governor in New York again? Conversely, if you eliminated pot, do you think you could get enough Libertarians out of their houses to elect a Libertarian president?)
I've since found that guys like the pro-dizziness advocate always show up to meetings I attend. The meetings I'm talking about are lectures or debates, and usually have a large Republican or Libertarian crowd in attendance. There's always one guy (or fifty) who sit in their dark rooms all day and night waiting for a single human ear to use as a trash can for their slightly deteriorated versions of someone else's paranoid ideas. These guys also show up at microphones during question and answer periods to give speeches. You wonder how these people survive in reality. But then you realize that they plod along at their mindless jobs, waiting for the chance to speak their minds. They use these meetings as their personal group therapy sessions. I'd say it was pathetic, except these people are such losers they actually don't evoke any pity from me. If the microphone malfunctioned and electrocuted them to death while they were on their eighth sentence after "I promise this will be a question", I'd probably be relieved that they'd finally stopped talking, for Christ's sake. (Did I mention that I hate audience members who make speeches during lecture question and answer periods?)
There may be some decent, thinking people involved with the Libertarian party, but I imagine that most of them have not been involved very long and will smarten up soon. To me, a lot of these real Libertarians seem to be fucking wackos.
