Friday, March 6, 2009

Depends on your world view

If your only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail. Maslow. Good guy, despite that silly pyramid. It's a world view he's talking about, not just approaches.

Let's say you've grown up with a ragingly hippie-ish mom who, in between her forays to God knows where, talked all this revolutionary crap, and then your Third World Oppressed dad sent you to all these schools steeped in a rigid, thought murdering ideology filled, also, with revolutionary fervor. Then you find the corner and a bunch of friends with thuggishness as their main trait and you've got bong resin layering your brain…

Pretty soon, all you've got is that hammer. And the world is nails.

So, through your efforts intimidating landlords and banks to give away money you claim has, somehow, been stolen from the Honest Working Poor, when, really, your thug friends just want to buy Cadillacs, you come to the notice of some lusting, grasping rich guy, say like George Soros. So the grooming begins. You, somehow, get in to Harvard (nope, no affirmative action here) and you quickly discover, in the world of Left and Symbolism, that it isn't so much what you do but what you are, so you start running for prestigious positions by spouting the proper sequence of words guilty privileged white people have attached a lot of symbolism to and you start winning. You keep your position by spouting these symbolic words in nice ways, even though you haven't really done a blasted thing.

So other rich, hateful white people notice you and take you on and you start administering million dollar funds and this is easier than shaking down banks because well, a couple of symbolic words on paper, and you can give that money to your other thuggish friends, no one the wiser. Cool.

Then you figure, hey, why not run the place, so you say the symbolic words to a ward filled with your thuggish friends and they remember all the good times and you're a Senator. Don't have to do much. Spread a little money here and there, say symbolic things, vote 'Present." Make good speeches.

Next thing you know, you're President.

Cool.

So, you and the boys recall those Masters Seminars and really cool classes and it's time to crush this capitalist oppressive, racist, society and turn it into the Utopia the remnants of your bong resin harks back to from time to time. So, bankrupt the system, crash the market, have a laugh with the wife, maybe start a war with the racist Zionist state over there oppressing the good honest peoples of Palestine, break all those bitter clinging-to-their-guns working people who are nothing but racists and stupid, anyway.

The world is just one big nail.

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