Neanderpundit

you’d do it too?

Just because everyone around you is an ass doesn’t give you an excuse to act like one.

As I have explained in recent posts, I have ample evidence to demonstrate the intrinsic crappiness of humans. And they do new things to demonstrate their crapiness, every day. The newspaper is chock full of examples of people treating one another poorly, and there is no sign of change anytime soon. This behavior has been happening since Cain slew Abel.

If you get the impression that I’m happy about this, I am not. If you get the impression that I intend to act like an ass to people because I think their behavior gives me rein to do so, that is incorrect.

The reality is, the harsher and nastier the world is, the more important it is to treat your fellow man with some respect, dignity, and kindness. And especially those people who might be on the edge, people normally decent who are having a bad day, people who are under stress all day every day. SO I try like hell to be as decent, polite, nice as I can.

Except to the unrepentant rude.

Frankly, there is nothing the unrepentant rude don’t deserve, and I doubt there’s anything that can happen to them that would trouble me in the least.

A pic of cooney in his fat cat lush rolling days, a couple of years back. We could have gotten him a 2500 dollar bed, lined with the finest down, and filled to the brim with catnip, but he preferred to sleep in the damnedest places, like cardboard boxes:

Or the seat of stinky old work jeans.

I later discovered (it was revealed to me in a dream) that he wanted to make a present to me of as much fur as he could. In the past several years I expect he gave me around 30,000 lbs of it.
If I had to share a house with a cat, I’m glad it was this one.

Roberta has another post here about anarchy.

I should think that my recent exchange with Billy Beck would have dissuaded her of the notion that people are capable of being civil, but that aside, let’s get down to the nitty of this gritty.

1: If anarchism could work, it would already be, somewhere.
2: if people were capable of civility, there would be no courts system
3: Ayn Rand is the worlds biggest fucktard, and anyone who reads that drivel and thinks “Genius!” needs to have a check-up-from-the-neck-up.

See, ‘Atlas Shrugged” is a fantasy. JUST a fantasy. Those things can never happen, will never happen.

The whole genre, everything written by that dipstick and promoted by her cult of personality is the biggest setback to true conservatism and classical liberalism since the election of that king of fucktards, FDR.

See, the formula that is needed for the best that America can be, is the representative republic we have, with a healthy dose of true conservatism, that is to say, the tendency to conserve, to hold steady, to prevent the growth of government, and classical liberalism- that is to say, the promotion of as much freedom as can generally be managed.

Anarchism or objectivisim, the bong water of political idealism, is fine- so long as everyone remains civil.

yeah, right.

Roberta is the very model of civility, and because she is a decent person, she assumes others will be as well.

I give everyone the benefit of the doubt, once. Once they’ve had the chance to screw me, and they do, they don’t get another chance. And it’s rare that someone doesn’t.

I have a lot of people, know a lot of people, who are decent and good humans. But I have been dealing with the general public since my first gig bagging groceries over thirty years ago, and I can absolutely guarantee you this: People are asses. Given the opportunity, they will misbehave. Every Single Time.