Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Sociopath quote: success

The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs, which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.

-- Kurt Vonnegut, from Hocus Pocus (1990)

12 comments:

  1. I have one question.

    If I were to look at a wall and decide that my penis is on fire, would that say more about me or walls?
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  2. peter I was just thinking about you
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  3. for sociopaths this is always true, which is awesome :)
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  4. I was just thinking of me, too.

    But that's really beside the point.
    Let's get back to the burning meat of the matter.

    I mean generally speaking, my penis isn't on fire. But when I looked at the wall, god dammit I thought my penis was on fire.

    So, does that mean that walls are misleading, or am I just a retard?

    I don't like where logic is leading me, so, fuck walls.
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  5. speak english
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  6. I'm sorry if that's too much for you to comprehend.

    I'ww make it easy fow you.

    If a pewson misintewpwets a situation, beginning to bewieve something compwetewy unsuppowted by weaw-wowld expewience, the situation isn't misweading. He's just a dumbass.

    So, the fact that the authow of this quote bewieved wibwawies to be misweading due to the number of success stowies they contain says mowe about his cognition than it does about the wibwawy.

    The wibwawy is pwobabwy one of the weast misweading pwaces in the modewn wowld. Main stweet is mowe misweading, with pictuwes of giant, man-sized buwgews, and signs pwomising that you'w somehow doubwe youw sawawy by signing up fow new caw insuwance. At home, on the TV, you'we offewed the knowwedge of how to get wich quick in onwy 20 minutes, fow just $2.99.

    Evewything is wewative, and wewativewy speaking, cawwing the wibwawy misweading is just dumb.

    The same is true for any other situation where you're essentially staring at a wall, thinking your penis is on fire. You can't blame the wall for your own idiocy.
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  7. Jimmy ProffittJan 20, 2010 09:20 AM
    "You can't blame the wall for your own idiocy."

    So can we blame your mom for your idiocy nimrod? The quote was satirical. Jesus H Christ you are slow.
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  10. Ring ring! Clue calling. Jimmy, are you there? Answer me, Jimmy!

    Fuck. An answering machine.

    Hey Jimmy, this is a clue, calling you courtesy of the free clues for the desperately lacking service (FCDLS).

    I just called to inform you that Vonnegut was a skeptical, paranoid, satirical writer, and the book in question was a work of fiction. As such, the quote shouldn't be ta... wait, what's that? Hold on a minute, Jimmy.

    *muffled speech*
    What? Wrong number? Fuck!

    Ahem! Jimmy, it seems we've got the wrong guy. If you ever run into a "Peter Pan," please give him my number.
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  11. you're just being really pwetentious with an obviously silly quote
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  12. where's daft? since he left pan has been running amok. daft, come back and fix this, you left and pan's being talking like a rabbit. this is bullshit!
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