You ask, "Are you a doctor?"
The guy says, "No."
You say, "But you know what you're doing, right? You're an old Army medic, or ..."
At this point the guy becomes annoyed. He tells you that he is a nice
guy, he is honest, he is always on time. He tells you that he is a
great son to his mother and has a rich life full of fulfilling hobbies,
and he boasts that he never uses foul language.
Confused, you say, "How does any of that f**king matter when my
[wife/husband/best friend/parent] is lying here bleeding! I need
somebody who knows how to operate on bullet wounds! Can you do that or
not?!?"
Now the man becomes more agitated -- why are you being shallow and
selfish? Do you not care about any of his other good qualities? Didn't
you just hear him say that he always remembers his girlfriend's
birthday? In light of all of the good things he does, does it really
matter
if he knows how to perform surgery?
In that panicked moment, you will take your bloody hands and shake him by the shoulders, screaming, "
Yes, I'm saying that none of that other shit matters, because in this specific situation, I just need somebody who
can stop the bleeding, you crazy f**king a**hole."
So here is a terrible truth about the adult world: You are in that
very situation every single day. Only you are the confused guy with the
pocket knife. All of society is the bleeding gunshot victim.
If you want to know why society seems to shun you, or why you seem to get no respect, it's because society is full of people
who need things.
They need houses built, they need food to eat, they need entertainment,
they need fulfilling sexual relationships. You arrived at the scene of
that emergency, holding your pocket knife, by virtue of your birth --
the moment you came into the world, you became part of a system designed
purely to see to people's needs.
Either you will go about the task of seeing to those needs by learning a unique set of skills,
or the world will reject you, no matter how kind, giving, and polite you are. You will be poor, you will be alone, you will be left out in the cold.
Does that seem mean, or crass, or materialistic? What about love and
kindness -- don't those things matter? Of course. As long as they result
in you doing things for people that they can't get elsewhere.
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