february 13 dsm
I really don't want to cheat and write a one-line post to keep the big blogging streak (#tbbs) alive but I'm fucking burnt and we both have the flu or something like it. That said, I kept on working through my zero sum culture thought from yesterday and ended up going down a handful of rabbit holes including but not limited to that it's a mindset that is self-perpetuating; if you reduce every experience to winner-take-all or view every resource (literal or figurative) as finite, the way you act/react in every situation will morph over the years until all the humanity is wrung out of you. I have noticed this happen to a lot of American people I know over the past ~15 years.
There's a guy in one of my dynasty leagues who rubs a lot of people the wrong way. Yet when people talk about him (everyone in these leagues gossips like crazy, it's amazing) they can't quite put their finger on what they think is off about him. It took me a while too. Eventually I came to the conclusion that his entire worldview is bent largely because of the forces of zero sum culture.
Last year we were discussing a trade (or something) and along the way I allowed that I had just taken a friend out for lunch for his birthday. His reaction was confusion and surprise. He told me he would never do that, could never do that. Do what, I asked. I thought it was some weird homophobic thing, like he was saying he'd never buy another man lunch or dinner. Nope. It was that I would buy anyone who wasn't family (read: a dependent) lunch or dinner (or anything else, really). He talked to me about how all he wanted to do was work and make money and the way he talked about it, it really did seem like all he ever thought of was money, having money, and having enough money —— and the subtext was that an easy way to have enough money was to never, ever share it.
NyQuil kicked in. See you in the funny pages.
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Be good to yourself.
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