Tuesday, November 08, 2005
(8:00 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Tuesday Hatred 367
I hate getting my picture taken. I hate Times Select. I hate people who have nicer apartments in better locations. I hate it when someone else is doing laundry at the time I had planned to do laundry. I hate feeling like I care about fewer and fewer things. I hate it when people believe that business is the best possible model for every area of human life. I hate having a high school crush on someone.
I hate that there are relationships that seem like they absolutely never change -- that every time some kind of hope arises that it will be different, it's just a prelude to an even more lock-step imposition of the same stupid pattern. I hate it when I start to suspect that maybe it's just me, that maybe if I just try hard enough things will change -- but then I realize that that too has been part of our pattern the whole time. How long do I "keep at it" without getting what I want? Do I even want it anymore? Do I keep at it because I enjoy being frustrated? Do I bring it to a certain point only to sabotage it, so that I can prove to myself that it was an inherent obstacle the whole time, rather than my own mistakes?
I hate when Richard doesn't see that he could have had me in checkmate several moves ago.
UPDATE: I hate dumb fucks who threaten bloggers with frivolous lawsuits. I hate that somehow some people still think that Amnesty International's comparison of our good old fashioned American torture/indefinite detention centers to the Soviet Gulags is still more worthy of our attention than the torture/indefinite detention themselves. In fact, I hate anyone who feigns agnosticism on the following:
- Whether the US military and intelligence agencies are engaged in torture and arbitrary detention as a matter of policy
- Whether we were led into Iraq based on lies
