One begins an exploration of the Asshole Industrial Complex with examples. Jim Jordan comes to mind for me. It might be someone else for you but it can't be any old asshole. It has to be someone who is a product of the asshole production system and who serves it. Ron DeSantis's assholedom, as superb as it is, is privately held and controlled by him which makes it less degrading. A submissive asshole is more of an asshole. You can see how I came to rest on Jordan. He's so good at it.
He grovels and looks down at you at the same time, though it doesn't produce the effect he wants, engagement at his level. Only irritation or pity. That is, as long as one doesn't lose their shit and go there, which can be hard not to do. Assholes normally induce contempt. And sadness at the loss of a soul. Those without the predisposition can act the asshole but it's not recommended. Because it infests those who are susceptible and erodes their humanity. Jordan's has been reduced to a residue.
Really nothing left. You wonder if the wrestling is related in his case. An honorable sport in honorable hands but you can see how a certain kind of person with a craving for degradation might be drawn to it. Just add mud. Which he basically has. Anyway, Trump of course brought assholes out of the woodwork and closet. We face an epidemic and it's an end-stage thing, being parasitic. It can't go on. Like the massive inequality and structural injustice we face it's hard to reverse.
The cure is humanity. Decency. Assholes will always be with us. But it's insane to empower them. As an official complex its reversal, however, requires collective action. Simple humanity as a political, social and economic force. The education and enlightenment among those who resist assholedom occurs at an individual level, creating an understanding of the immense power assholes have when aggregated. The asshole agenda can only be thwarted through organized resistance.
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