Resurgent Draft: Untitled Rant

Posted at 3:55 pm on Wednesday, December 12, 2007, in Resurgent Drafts.

I must have been drunk when I wrote this on March 4, 2007. There is no other explanation. It makes sense for me to have relegated this “post” to the status of draft, and it makes absolute no sense for me to publish it now. So it goes.

This post has been cleaned up. There was a bunch of spelling mistakes that became progressively worse as the post went on. And I have added the standard edits to make sentences readable, as necessary. The piece — as a whole — otherwise is unedited.

This is a rambling rant. Paragraph three has no context.

Unpublished Draft

There is one question you should ask yourself: are you better than person a or b? If you believe you are, you should let it be known; because of your degree, your knowledge, your ability, etc.; if not, you should let time or an independent result allow the decision to be made. Otherwise, society accepts potentially impotent persons [to] guide the future.

There are naturally inferior people. Those who let comedy override their ugliness. Those who let their smarts override their awkwardness. And there are those seemingly perfect people: strong, silent, wise; they seldom exist. Every now and then, you come across a combination. A beautiful being corrupted by the guile of an infantile, inept person wholly devised of ill-will, or deceit [for] those more inherently honest and trustworthy.

Living in the San Francisco bay area, I have come to appreciate the awareness of gay rights. When I was momentarily aligning myself as a candidate for office within the student government association at Syracuse University, I had made proud of myself as a candidate of equal rights. My belief was that gay rights was not a privilege, but a characteristic that would be celebrated.

Growing older and seemingly more wise, I have realized that it is not what you know, but how you let others now what you may know, and the deception of others is either, insincere (at best) or criminal (at worst, or what some may think).

You are not what you are, but what people think you are. And that is either a wholly unfair situation or an equally apt one at the same time. You either know how [to] do something, or not, or make money off other’s people knowledge. You either give up on the situation, or let others decide what is best based on false pretenses. A soul is difficult to calculate; its worth much more difficult to do so. Do you make money? What is enough? Are you rich? Are you wealthy? Are you truly good at what you do, or do you take advantage of people who are truly good at what they do? Are you smart? Or do you need to read a little bit to formulate a response? Would you like some extra time, or are you prepared to go with what you got?

I love three things: My wife, my blog, and my weed. I know what I have and I know what I want. What I do not know, is whether or not I will stamp upon the souls of hundreds of thousands of hard-working persons to gain an extra ten percent. Oh wait, yes I do. No, I won’t. Will you?

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