There are two types of people in this world. Assholes, and decent people. The assholes will always take advantage of the decent people. The decent people will always be taken advantage of, unless they get tired of it. Then they'll become an asshole.
In case you had any illusions about it.
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I was once told that you always want at least one asshole on your side.
Assholes get things done, they see the bigger picture and take action with sheer objectivity; without any sense of respect or remorse; damn the consequences.
You just gotta learn how to deal with them.
However....with that being said, and some of the comments in the thread....you don't want to be walked on...and if that requires being an asshole at times....so be it.
Ive been an asshole since I can remember. Recently I realized just how much of an asshole I have become. So I decided to try to change and become a decent person.
But however, you forgot the 3rd class of people out there. There are Assholes, there are decent people, then there are MORONS. Because of the morons out there, I am now once again an asshole.
karma... well, that has nothing to do with being an asshole.
Believing Karma is like falling for the "real beauty is on the inside" colloquialism. It's just something non-competitive people say to somehow 'lift' their self-esteem after getting defeated. Like empathizing with your detractors, it doesn't do you any favors. We've somehow bred a sub-race of humans who are more interested in their well-being than their survival; his soul comes before his stomach. Man must not be afraid to take what is rightfully his and conquer all who stand in his way!
Karma does come around, but almost never in a way that's satisfying to others. That's why you need to give karma a little help soometimes.
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"The Girl Next Door" with Elisha Cuthbert... drool... umm... anyway... that movie, while definitely not my favorite movie of all time, had a somewhat interesting message:
Sometimes you have to do something wrong in order to do what's right.
I'm not a fan of that whole "greater good" philosophy, as most people in my opinion just use it as an alibi.
But to an extent, it is true. Sometimes, something good has to be sacrificed for something better.
In a roundabout way, I'm saying that being an asshole is good sometimes. Yeah, take charge every once in a while. Stand up to your boss when he's overworking/underappreciating you. Argue with one of your teachers in school. Dominate your girlfriend in the bedroom. Stomp on the gas and fly past traffic like a ricer.
Yes, you risk losing your job; yes, you risk flunking the class; yes, you risk losing your girl; yes, you risk getting a ticket or in an accident. Oh well. Risk is part of life.
But you're at least making it known that you're not gonna take any shit from anybody.
That doesn't make you a bad person, it just makes you an assertive person.
And people like assertive people.
"Der Wahnsinn ist nur eine schmale Brücke/die Ufer sind Vernunft und Trieb"
I'll add that people like themselves when they're assertive. Standing up for yourself doesn't make you an asshole, just someone who with self respect. An asshole or its ever-popular cousin, the douche, is someone who goes out of their way to annoy/piss off/pick on others because they need to take energy from others to feel good, fleeting and false as it actually is, they know no other way. Sometimes it's because they have poor social skills, leading to a lack of popularity. To compensate and justify the rejection, they piss off others so that they can delude themselves into believing that THEY are the ones doing the rejecting or that they simply have some control over the situation. A decidedly pathetic species.
I don't think assholes, unless they are sociopaths (but that's different), can look themselves in the mirror with pride.
Now, we all occassionally may act in the obnoxious manner of an asshole, but that doesn't mean we ARE assholes. And an asshole never apologizes. I use the rule of thumb that if I can look at myself in the mirror (figuratively - as much as I like myself I don't stare at myself in the mirror. Maybe if I had a nice pair of woman-tits. But then I still wouldn't be looking at my face. I'm thinking some natural solid C's with the big nipples that point outwards a little. Anyway...) and go to sleep at night (with the exception of story lines or technical details that keep me up) then I'm doing OK.
Midnight in a Perfect World on Amazon or order anywhere. The first book in a quartet chronicling the rise of a man from angry criminal to philanthropist. Midnight... is a distopic noirish novel featuring 'Duchess', a modified 1990 Subaru Legacy wagon.
