Change Opinions with Insults
Cutting your nose to spite your face
When I rolled up my sleeves, a family member X asked me why I’m destroying my life like this. Or why haven’t I at least got tattoos of something nice, for example, flowers and butterflies.
Three responses are possible.
1. Rude response which sends the inquirer up the rectum,
2. Shrugging it off and move onto another topic,
3. Explain my choices and aesthetic decisions.
Only the obedient would explain answers to such questions. At the moment when I proceed to explain, I’m accepting the premise that tattoos destroy life and that my tattoos aren’t nice. The job is then on me to convince the inquirer about the opposite, instead of her convincing me that what she says has any value.
I don’t like verbal gymnastics of this kind. I prefer to speak with people who want to reach a mutual understanding. Sometimes I meet people who want to argue which I don’t mind as long as they’re honest about it and they argue to uncover the truth. Then there are people who, through the words, are trying to colonize my thoughts with their thoughts. A reasonable person sees it and shrugs it off. A rude person also sees it and sends them up the rectum.
The political spectrum is moving from left/right to quality/idiocy. Not long ago could the political scene introduce two quality candidates, one left-wing, and the other right-wing, and the discussion would revolve around the quality of arguments. Today one quality candidate explains to the idiot candidate why quality is important, while the other barks comedy nonsense good for sharing on social media.
Why do half the people vote for such an idiot? The answer is in the question, “because you ask me such an idiotic question, that’s why.” If the voter of the idiot would attempt to explain, he’d accept the premise he votes for an idiot and thus is an idiot himself. But how can I hope to change someone’s view when I insult them? A human isn’t stupid and an individual is often smarter than the educated snobs like to accept. People see through the nonsense of the idiot candidate, that’s not why they vote for him. They vote for him because that’s how they send up the rectum people with stupid questions who’d like to enforce how to think.
And I understand that because sometimes I do the same. Many people don’t vote for a candidate but against people who look down on them, thus, they vote for the candidate who’s the most against the will of the others, or, a total dummy. Cut your nose to spite your face.
It’s human pettiness, on both sides.
On one side it’s the pride of the educated, and people who know how to use Google, who want to show off their smarts by defeating others in rhetoric. On the other side, it’s the anger of people who weren’t lucky to get an education or aren’t interested in the latest update of the technocrats from California and who are sending up the rectum the smart rhetorics with their vote. Paradoxically, nowhere it’s this littleness more visible than on the glob social networks.
But otherwise, I shrug it off and prefer to write about it. Tats or idiots, life’s too short to spend time with people who want to cram me into the same box they’re themselves crammed in. So I rather talk with people who want to talk like
Adam Reich 25012023