Are assholes born or are they made? We have an opportunity to answer the question because there's an absolute epidemic and explosion in the population of assholes going on in America. That part of the investigation answers itself. Some assholes are made.
They come about due to circumstances. The percentage of assholes isn't relatively fixed as would occur if it were genetically determined. No, there is an observable element of contagion. On the other hand, it's inconceivable to me that assholes are eradicable as a class.
Some are born assholes. Or born-again assholes. In any event in them it's effectively innate. Again I appeal to observation. I have known assholes who were obviously born that way. You can tell when you're an adolescent boy. Assholes love cheapshots.
They must win by any means it takes. And winning while beating up on people is better than not. Triumphalism is a given -- no graciousness in victory. Not that it's really victory. They never finally feel whole because they can't. The void within them is too great.
The emptiness vast and incurable.
Laws and other standards, right on down to courtesy, convention and etiquette, try to make the world better and safe from assholes. But it's hard because assholes have huge pathological drives. Again, because the void within is so great. They are basically vampires.
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