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Rational? Fuck Rational
2/9/2007 2:12 am Last Read: |
Rant enclosed. Read at your own risk, agree, or not. I wrote this a few months ago in response to a rather heated discussion I had with a friend of mine; a current student, Masters of something or other, and me who only had about a year of college. My response on a subject shocked her, and she wouldn't let it go, kept trying to bring me round to her thinking, and I dug in my heels because I knew what she was doing - trying to educate her poor, uneducated backwards friend who never finished university. That my viewpoint may have been valid never crossed her mind, because I didn't have an education, so therefore it couldn't possibly be valid. Needless to say, I wasn't too terribly impressed. And yes, shortly after I wrote this, I pretty much told her the same damn thing I had written. Eventually, we let it go and are still friends. But this is just another Thing About OyaD y'all better recognise. Just sayin' I managed to embroil myself into a discussion I didn't want, because I knew my views were unpopular (most of my views are unpopular). I tend to avoid debates and discussions like the plague, because 1) I feel most debates are useless as people will spend more time arguing why they're right than actually going out and LIVING what they believe and 2) people all seem to have a completely different view of who I am until they come face to face with my unpopular views. So, here's this lass after she pried my belief out of me under duress, and she gives me this shocked look and says quietly. "I wouldn't have expected that from you." Oh for fuck's sake. I am a human life form. I do not have a degree. I don't have loads of witty educated things to say about life, taught to me in classrooms. I don't have a piece of paper that authorises me to say whatever the fuck I want and be believed solely because I possess said piece of paper. I've very little booklearnin'. All I have is experience. I don't ascribe to the view that we should all be tolerant of everything, all the time, without question. I also don't ascribe to the view that freedom of speech means freedom of responsibility for said speech. I believe some things should be said or done, and some things just plain should not, either out of a sense of safety, humanity, or just plain common sense. Things I learned, I learned from experiences that are different from yours. As a result, a good portion of them are probably tempered from emotion, personality, gain, loss and a bunch of other things. But just because they're not your viewpoints sure as fuck doesn't mean I'm narrow minded - I never form a belief solely out of something I've read out of a book. I form it out of something I've LIVED. And so they're going to be passionate ones. Sometimes angry ones. Don't tell me to be rational. Fuck rational. Rational is the language of neat offices and carefully manicured parks and buildings that all look alike. It's Ticky Tacky. It's soulless. Some things aren't rational. Some things SHOULDN'T be rational. There should be some things on this planet that piss you off so badly, rational goes out the window and you rise up and say "No, damn it! NO, this I will NOT allow." Rational just sits around and talk. Anger actually goes out and does something. If this makes me an imperfect, uneducated being, then fine. If it breaks the little glass statue of me someone mounted upon a pillar, then fine - because I know I sure as fuck didn't put myself up there. I like it down here, on the ground, in the grass and old leaves and manure and soil and worms and butterflies and flowers and rocks and roots and growing things and beetles smell of good clean earth. I like life gritty, real, raw, and sometimes unpleasant, where harsh truths can slice like a razor, but they're slicing through poison, and I don't have to try and temper what I say to be more palatable to people who have sacrificed intensity for "reason". Reason changes and becomes quackery in a few years. Emotion has always been a constant. I'll trust that over a "study" any day of the week. I'm an uneducated backwater half-breed. I don't apologise for it. There are things I know how to do that you haven't got a clue about. But I don't believe it makes you stupid. So I'll be damned if I call anyone friend if they think that way about me. You can either dig it, or don't. |
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2/11/2007 12:47 pm |
Well I may be an uneducated lowlife whose opinion matters not, but I like ya just fine anyways. *wink*
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