I call it Stupid or Don't Give a Fuck.
This is a discussion Ben and I were having the other day while driving home from lunch. We've both noticed an increase in the general assholery of our fellow Americans lately, both on the road and off.
We used to quickly dismiss it as just plain stupidity (left turns from right hand lanes, etc.) but the thought occurred to me the other day that it's more than just stupidity. I think that with everything going on in the world over which they feel they have no control, a lot of people have just developed an entitled, fuck-it-all mentality when it comes to the little things they can control.
"Why should I follow traffic rules when no one else does?"
"Why should I actually have my fast food order sorted before I get to the head of the line?"
"Why should I do x, y, z and maintain basic civility toward people when it's obvious no one else is and they're getting away with it?"
Now granted, there have always been self-important, entitled assholes:
But it seems that until last November this douchebaggery was just kind of simmering there, for the most part held in check by civil society.
Not any more!
The "election" of the Cheeto-faced Jizztrumpet and the ongoing train-wreck that has followed has unleashed all that pent-up effluent and has allowed it to run freely in the streets with its head held high. People who would otherwise be muzzled by basic standards of civil behavior can now be flaming douchebags to anyone and everyone without any fear of repercussion. Because if the President can get away with Treason, why do I have to play by the rules?
BECAUSE FOLLOWING THE RULES AND TREATING OTHER PEOPLE WITH RESPECT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO, MOTHERFUCKERS.
So I would suggest start playing a game when you're out and about and see something that leaves you shaking your head in disbelief. Try and figure out if someone did something out of sheer stupidity or out of a misplaced fuck-it-all sense of entitlement.
I'm really hoping for that big meteor. I hope it makes a really low pass and scares the shit out of everyone in the United States. I want to see people crying in the streets in fear. I hope that it makes people cry and scream and most importantly, make them wake the fuck up as to how insignificant they really are.
This is all because the morons feel empowered by the election of Orange Julius. We are officially in Act 1 of Idiocracy.
Nah, they'll just take it as another sign of the Apocalypse and get even crazier. I'd prefer a direct hit out of nowhere with very little—if any—warning.