Pigeonhole ~
noun: a specific (often simplistic) category
noun: a small compartment
verb: treat or classify according to a mental stereotype
verb: place into a small compartment
Why do we continuously quantify groups of people? Social groups, political beliefs, whatever you want, there is a sub-genre for it and it is usually wrong. It seems to me that you can not have a conversation with anyone nowadays without them labeling your belief structure with some inane title. The sad thing is that we have all done it but just like everything else in society, it seems to have gotten worse as time marches on.
How many wonderful friends did you pass up because you thought that they were something that they were not? How many individuals were you rude to because you knew one speck of information about them and with that tiny grain of sand, you ran and the rusty wheels of your mind started to formulate a view of just who and what that person was? Yes, we have all done it but does that make it right? Calling something, “The Truth” does not mean that it is true.
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“I’ve noticed a certain anti-intellectualism going around this country; since about 1980, oddly enough…I was in Nashville, Tennessee and after the show I went to a Waffle House. I’m not proud of it, but I was hungry. And I’m sitting there eating and reading a book. I don’t know anybody, I’m alone, so I’m reading a book. The waitress comes over to me like, [gum smacking] “What’chu readin’ for?” I had never been asked that. Not “What am I reading?”, but “What am I reading for?” Goddangit, you stumped me. Hmm, why do I read? I suppose I read for a lot of reasons, one of the main ones being so I don’t end up being a fucking waffle waitress.” ~ B. Hicks
I embrace change; I swallow it whole; I devour it like a big yummy bowl of ice cream on a hot summer’s eve. But the thing I do not embrace is BULLSHIT. Is it disrespectful to call it the United States of Bullshit? Or would it be better to just stop calling ourselves a country all together and just admit that we are one big, yet failing, corporate machine?
I do not stick to party lines. I call a spade a spade and guess what: Every president that we have had in my 37 years of not being able to kick the oxygen habit, has been a spade. It is as if all of their heads were removed and replaced with asses; what else could explain the noxious smell they emit? Aren’t we tired of being lied to yet? Are we just as bad as they are with our empty anger or am I the only one that is truly pissed off?
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“I’m the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness. Oh, I’ve got it all sewn up. I can save you. If it takes the last drop of your blood, I’ll drive your demons away. I’ll kick them in the bollocks and spit on them when they’re down and then I’ll be gone back into darkness, leaving only a nod and a wink and a wisecrack. I walk my path alone… who would walk with me?” ~ J. Constantine
I will never live up to the worlds expectations, nor do I care. I am more than my appearance and you know less about me than you think. More pretentious drivel is now being spewed from my mouth onto the page. Though, you should know what is coming next: I do not care if that is what you think.
I do however value your opinion. Yes, I am a contradiction but aren’t we all? Why do we have such a hard time admitting things to ourselves and/or publicly? I am wrong a lot but I am also right even more than that. I will borrow a quote from one of the greats, which sums it up nicely:
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ~ Nietzsche
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I’ll borrow from Mr. King as I often do: We have forgotten the face of our fathers.
All over the news today there will be things like, “What does the 4th of July really mean”. Or someone spouts off how the United States is the best country, ever, in the history of the world. But we would be mistaken to assume this and I will completely ignore the second remark I made because it is simply just not true; it is not patriotic, it is nationalistic and they are two very different things. But I digress . . .
There was no event today, two hundred and thirty three years ago; there was only an announcement of our intention. It was the day we told the so called King that we weren’t going to take it anymore. That is why we celebrate. We celebrate the 4th of July to reaffirm our commitment to freedom and liberty and a bunch of other silly words.
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We are all funny but not quite as funny as we think we are. Being my harshest critic is a very draining job, which really isn’t a job since I do not get paid to do it. I always assumed that the duality of living in the real world and living in my mind was some idiosyncrasy of mine; that there couldn’t possibly be others that felt this way but, alas, I was mistaken.
It comes off as pretentious and narcissistic if you have never met me or at least heard my voice, because if you did you would know that I strive to be neither of those things. But on a related note: I have no problem looking in to a mirror and seeing myself for just who and what I am. I think of millions of people who can not do this; who try to convince themselves that they are something that they are not: human .
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