Making Generalisations is Stupid
I just received a new pen and it is fantastic! It must be the only fine-nibbed pen left in existence. I have been looking for over 5 years for one. I can now write even smaller, hurray! (Supposed to mean I am introverted or something). What is it about generalising the human psychi into neat little compartments that all social sciences are attempting to do? Psychologists are starting to sound more like horoscopes and vice versa. And we hang by their every word (psychologists and horoscopes that is).
One of my new years resolutions ahs been to not allow anyone to make generalisations in my presence. For example, when a girl approaches me and states "hey, you're cute, fancy a shag?" I reply by asking them to clarify: "cute like Brad Pitt or cute like that My Little PonyTM you are playing with?" If they then procede by saying "You're an arsehole" I reply by biting their Little Pony'sTM head off and then smashing their kneecaps. Thus I inform the masses to not make generalisations.
Leave things as they are and stop forcing labels onto things. You are not Aristotle! The point I am making here is that we would be much more content if we remove our heads from where they are currently firmly lodged and start looking around us without prejudices or suppositions and just accept everything for what is presented to us. The moment we start labelling and boxing in things we open ourselves to disappointment because nothing will ever fit our neat little world of labels. I could go into a zillion different examples but I have just bored myself writing this and so it is time to stop.
Now go away because you are probably American and therefore a dumb redneck Bush-supporter and if you are not then you probably wish you were.
One of my new years resolutions ahs been to not allow anyone to make generalisations in my presence. For example, when a girl approaches me and states "hey, you're cute, fancy a shag?" I reply by asking them to clarify: "cute like Brad Pitt or cute like that My Little PonyTM you are playing with?" If they then procede by saying "You're an arsehole" I reply by biting their Little Pony'sTM head off and then smashing their kneecaps. Thus I inform the masses to not make generalisations.
Leave things as they are and stop forcing labels onto things. You are not Aristotle! The point I am making here is that we would be much more content if we remove our heads from where they are currently firmly lodged and start looking around us without prejudices or suppositions and just accept everything for what is presented to us. The moment we start labelling and boxing in things we open ourselves to disappointment because nothing will ever fit our neat little world of labels. I could go into a zillion different examples but I have just bored myself writing this and so it is time to stop.
Now go away because you are probably American and therefore a dumb redneck Bush-supporter and if you are not then you probably wish you were.

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