pepitothinking

You know, there is on the left a phenomena that I’ll call “fetishizing the fuck you”. It seems to me to be a highly un-thinking posture of loving it when there are “two sides”.  One side  can be associated with some sort of power or prestige or something that “elevates” it in some way over another “side”.  Then, anyone in the non- elevated side saying “fuck you” to the other is honored, lauded,  praised, applauded, is righteous over the other side period.   

Basically, I’m talking about people who never found a “fuck you” they didn’t like. So somebody says a fuck you and they like it.  They like the fuck you more than they like they actual content they are saying fuck you about.  

So when you’re a lefty, you value culturally the courage, temerity, hutzpah, to say fuck you SO much, that anywhere they see it gets a thumbs up!

Problem is its automatic, reflexive… Basically non-thinking.  Their pattern recognition software latches onto the basic outlines of the fuck you and that’s enough.  They “side” with who ever is saying fuck you (ok, to an extent). If the fuck you-er has some well know characteristics, then the quicker they jump behind them.  Women to men, pocs to white folks , gay to straight ….you get the picture.  The thing is… Frequently, it’s revealing more of the “ally’s” psychology than the issue. 

My beef is that as time passes, and a person’s individual mental database gets bigger and bigger of diverse experiences in the real world(hopefully),  then the more and more you start seeing these pesky little details that mess up the pattern recognition.  This situation doesn’t quite match that situation.  

Here’s the rub, you may WANT it to, but it actually doesn’t.  

Why do you want it to? Because it’s easier.  That’s it, it’s easier.  You don’t have to work so hard.  Now, I don’t mean dig a ditch hard, that would be real work.  I mean you don’t have to think so much.  You don’t have to work at being disappointed that you don’t quite understand what’s going on.  You don’t have come up with a way to understand the nuances. You don’t have to compare and contrast, gather facts, do analysis, etc.  Basically you don’t have to think!   That’s my beef.  Not thinking.

What’s the matter with not thinking you ask?  Basically it fucks things up.  You back some one who you shouldn’t or not in the right way, for the right reasons or to the right extent.  Because you don’t want to do the work, you mess you and others usually up.

Now don’t get me wrong, I get it. Its a complicated world out there with a lot of things going on!  WE WANT SHORT CUTS! We want to have a cookie cutter mold that everything fits into….  “Damn those parts that don’t fit in, they’re not important anyway!”.. they say sweating profusely!

 But those short cuts, they ain’t there a lot.  Sorry.  You just have to think. No way around it.  That is if you care to see things as close to as they are as you can manage.  Now it ain’t like dieting lots of folks do, you break it one little bit and you throw the whole day out with binging.  If you try hard to see things and you slip in your little bias here, that’s not license to just go whole hog and start fantasizing completely.  That’s delusional.  Just leave that hanging chad alone and try a little harder to see what is before you and not in your head.  La vida NO es sueño!