Assorted Assertions III: This Time, It's Personal

Assorted Assertions III: This Time, It's Personal
by Dave Munger

The pedophiles are winning.

The will to power is as natural, healthy, misunderstood, and abused as the sex drive. The culture of the period that we are living in represses, vilifies, and perverts the former in the way that the Victorian era did the latter.

If men never ask for directions, why are men always asking me for directions? Not all of them are Japanese.

A way to discourage individuality in a planned society is to advocate the idea that a heterogeneous society is made up of many different internally homogeneous groups. Being different in such a society means being a member of a group that is different than outsider groups. This promotes conformity in proportion to the lip service that is paid to individuality. School uniforms would thus promote genuine individuality.

The popular sentiment "No Fat Chicks" would be much less offensive to most women if they realized that it is not a reference to themselves, but to REALLY fat women.

America is an actual classless society. There is no such thing as an upper, middle, or lower class here. Social class is an old world phenomenon, and is not the same as income level. Bankrupt English aristocrats are still members of the upper class. In any society with a class system, acquiring wealth leaves you in the same class. What makes it a class system is the lack of mobility. If you don't die in the same class you were conceived in, then it's not really a class, it's a period in your life in which your income is different than it was and will be in other periods of your life.

I like the word "over" because it can mean finished, as in "it's all over"; above, as in "birds fly over the treetops"; or better, as in "I prefer the one over the other". Using the word "over" as the title of a story would be a cool way to exploit it's multiple meanings.

The World Council of Churches is the focus of evil in the post-modern world. I mean it.

No treaty is ever honored. Nations do what their leadership believes is in their own interest. Whenever a non-aggression pact, for example, is signed and the signers then refrain from aggression, that is because aggression is not in the interest of the nation. If it was, then the treaty would simply be disregarded. Treaties only benefit aggressive and dishonest parties, like Hitler.

I've been thinking that outside of space/time (or "preceding" time), God might simultaneously exist and not-exist, like a quanta of matter in a given point. His non-existence would have no observable consequences, hence, only the existent God is evident. Further, God would simultaneously posses every other conceivable and inconceivable attribute, but only those that would lead Him to create inhabited universes are observable (indirectly, by observing the universes. The attributes of God that would result in other types of universes are observable only in those universes). Thus the evident God would have a certain type of character. He must suffer, because He wouldn't act unless He could feel the lack of something. I postulate that He is motivated by something analogous to the loneliness of a single man. What He would find necessary is some entity utterly separate from Himself (an extension of yourself is poor company, as is a person who does not recognize your existence independent of them, like babies who think you disappear when they close their eyes, paranoids who think they can read your mind or unreasonable women who expect you to read theirs), yet similar in ways that would allow it to sympathize with Him. Thus, in the beginning Adam is alone, like God. He finds that it is not good to be alone, and acquires a companion. His descendants are all able to sympathize with this situation without having been in the exact same dilemma. The question then, is not "Is man smart enough to figure God out?", but "Is God able to make Himself understood if that is what He wants, and if He doesn't, why did He create us in this way?" I suppose something like this train of thought has occurred to most horny guys with time on their hands who've read Genesis and the book by that wheelchair guy.

Young writers would be well advised to keep track of all of their false starts, solitary lines or paragraphs that never grow up into full pieces. They may one day find a medium in which they can be assembled and presented as a collection.

I should just pick a damn major already.