Hubuduh What?

manifesto
2007-03-05 : 3:56 pm

What is going ON today? I have had at least 4 different people frustrate me almost to the point of screaming. And that was just before noon! Okay, wait. No, 1pm. One pee em.

Others in my office all seem frustrated, too.

Here's what I propose: All needy, opinionated, non-respectful, self-absorbed people in the world get shipped off to an island where they can go ahead and expect some kind of entirely undisclosed perfection from everyone else and then git to blamin' and hatin' when the others don't AUTOMATICALLY comply out of sheer DESIRE TO PLEASE. Each individual person on that island can sit there on their high imaginary thrones and assume to their hearts content that no one else can come close to the level of intellectual GIGANTISM that they possess and therefore are not deserving of the respect and dignity that they deserve.

Then, those of us who live with reasonable expectations of others, those of us who like to treat others with respect, those of us who aren't so concerned with being the most impressive tool in the shed and who like to just live our lives as amicably and peacefully as possible can DO JUST THAT. We can all show up to our jobs and do our work, and then go home. We can live with each other without playing control games. We can take arguments and disagreements and work through them, taking into account the other person's viewpoint.

I'm not saying life here on the mainland will be all rainbows and unicorns frolicking in the meadows, we'll just be able to LIVE without so many others trying to build themselves up by bringing us down.

Of course I realize that by taking my little Bic wand and pointing it at these people who need to live on the Isle O' Self-Involvement I am also committing the very act I'm accusing them of in the simple fact that I am judging them, however I AM REASONABLE, DAMMIT!!!

In thinking this out it's starting to feel like a throwback to segregation (yo whatup, Strom), only it would be a segregation based not on race, but on attitude. Which I guess would make me an attitudist. And you know what? I'm not ashamed. I am totally attitudist. We'll call it 'tudism for short. Kind of like nudism, only not as much fun. And you know why it's okay to be a 'tudist? Because the people being banned DESERVE it. The banishment is based on their own actions. It's based on something they themselves could control.

This is my manifesto. Be cool or get the hell out.

Prickly Pear Margarita time.