The Bell Curve of Assholism

There was one of those notes on the bulletin board at work...free cat to a loving home, with the phone numbers cut neatly into shreds.

Some fucking jerk wrote 'Good cat=dead cat' on it, then drew a crude shark on it and added 'good shark bait'. May or may not be the same guy with the giant pick up and probably small dick with the bumper sticker that says 'Cat missing? Try checking under my tires'

Got me thinking about the "haves" and "have nots". My original tirade was going to go something like "the have nots deserve not to have, and we should continue to kick them while they're down".

Generalization is a thing I'm really trying to avoid these days.

I was thinking about society, particularly American society in this bell shaped curve of Assholism. Like, the absolute most destitute people don't seem to be all that hateful, because their world is so detached from ours, that they just seem to be content with whatever they can get their hands on.

Move up a little farther, then you get crime. People who are poor and uneducated, yet somewhat involved with society, and they start seeing things they'd like to have, but simply can't afford, so they steal.

A little farther up, you've got the lower crust of blue collar America. Too honest to steal, too mad to get informed, and just making ends meet. These are the fundamentalist Christians, the people who think Iran should be wiped off the face of the earth without even questioning the ramifications of that...the people I say "intelligence isn't earned in school, it's earned through information." And they get mad and think I'm a snob.

Then you have the peak...you're either just about to make it out of your rut, or you just did. You look down on friends and family for never reaching your height, and you kick the people climbing up the ladder in the face so they can't catch you. You make new friends, and new enemies...arrogance soon sets in.

Then you start the downward slope...you become detached from society, and the bad parts of life because you have enough good things in life to distract you, and you're not worried about competition, because there aren't many people at your level to compete with.

I dunno...someone probably already wrote something like this...