Opinions, art, debate
No, they wouldn’t. People who want to move, move. What people say is no indication of anything other than that at this particular moment they felt like saying it for whatever reason.
Only the results matter. What you want is what you have. I want to learn German, so I work on it every single day. If you want to learn German but you aren’t learning it, you don’t really want to learn German.
I’m very sad for people who sincerely fail to realize how off-putting they are. “The bare minimum that is acceptable” reeks of pouty, perennially aggrieved womanhood. Everything around you dies, flowers don’t bloom, milk goes sour, and gifts dry up.
People don’t give gifts because they’ve been presented with lists of barely acceptable minimums but because it brings them joy. Gift giving is extremely enjoyable. Unless you make it unenjoyable following the recipe provided by this poster.
N announced that he wants to become more sociable to practice for his job interview and is willing to accompany me to social occasions.
“Which social occasions?” I asked. “I don’t have any social occasions beyond the coffee hour at church.”
“Well, we went to that party, remember?”
“Which party?”
“I don’t know. But it was a nice party. There were people.”
“What was the occasion?”
“How should I know? There were those gay dudes.”
“Ah! The 2023 Chairs’ retreat at the Dean’s house?”
“If you say so. We could go to that one again.”
Undermining family is class warfare. Divorce is wealth transfer. Protracted singledom is wealth transfer. The freedom to keep swiping for fresh partners is freedom to be poor. Wealth begins when you stop swiping.
In related news, when we came into the church today, we saw four young people, 3 men and 1 woman, who came for the very first time, and the priest was doing welcome prayers over them at the entrance. The popadia (the priest’s wife) was in tears, it was so touching.
What I’m saying is true for both religion and education. Young people don’t want to be pandered to. The priest says that the young catechumens all want serious theology.
On the level of simple logic, it’s got to be obvious that if somebody made a choice to go to church instead of hanging out at home with a dildo, they are looking for something that’s not a dildo. So what’s the point of running after them with dildos when they get enough of that in every other area of life?
Just fuck off at this point really, you know? I have no idea what glitched to send the prediction machine from overheating to overfreezing but nobody cares any more. Let’s move on.
What I find very entertaining it’s that these are the same people who keep saying that Republicans want to bring Handmaid’s Tale to life.
Just as subjectivity is becoming a class privilege, we start hearing this:
We haven’t yet seen but we soon will the people who can’t do introspection because there’s no depth to their inner world. This is being actively normalized by Andreessen and Co. He doesn’t mind sounding like a moron who comes up with the equivalent of “testing your blood sugar causes diabetes” because the payoff is too good.
Health trends are often annoying because people into extreme one-upsmanship.
Psyllium husk is good for blood sugar.
Yeah, but I eaty husks raw after grinding them myself for an hour.
Yes, I also grind them myself and I add raw organic honey from my own beehive.
Yes, I also grind them myself and I add raw organic honey from my own beehive where every bee is fed individually with a special mix of mega nutrients.
Yes, I also grind them myself and I add raw organic honey from my own beehive where every bee is fed individually with a special mix of mega nutrients. But I also mediate over each bee for 3 hours while standing on one leg barefoot in a field of fresh clover that was grown from the seeds that are infused with beams from the infrared light machine I invented myself after hanging upside down naked in the sun and chanting abundance chants.
After which, one says, oh fuck you all and goes on to have a salami sandwich.
This book is supposed to be a murder mystery / courtroom drama but its actual value is different. The Perfect Marriage demonstrates the reason for class differences. That the author clearly doesn’t intend to do so makes the whole thing extremely funny.
Jeneva Rose’s characters are upper-middle-class professionals who behave like the participants of the Jerry Springer Show. They are violent, short-tempered, emotionally incontinent, comically promiscuous and painfully incompetent. That such people wouldn’t be able to succeed in a highly competitive professional sphere if they kept freaking out and clawing each other’s faces off in public doesn’t occur to the author.
Class resentment exists because lumpenproletariat thinks that the middle class is like them but with money. Social dysfunction exists because wealthy people think that the lumpen are like them but without money.
Take airports. We’ve all been frustrated at airports. But for some of us, starting a brawl at an airport is a physiological impossibility. Others, on the other hand, don’t have a problem with doing that. When we observe airport brawlers, do we suspect them of being lawyers and college professors? Of course not. We know that one of the many reasons why they got to be lawyers and professors is because they have the self-control to avoid freaking out in airports.
Jeneva Rose doesn’t know this. Or she does and simply panders to the public that is increasingly eager to refuse to notice how important self-discipline and self-control are.
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