Arsehole Theory

The small print: Above cartoon swiped from The Pain Comics who I would say owns copyright, since I am offering a freebie link and make nada from this blog perhaps we're square..... if not contact me via your nominated asshole and I'll pull it. However it appears Pain Inc has it's own assholes to deal with.

Now, away from the legalese......

Depending on which side of the Pacific or Atlantic you live on, the Ameringlish term Asshole or the more British Arsehole (as we use downunder) is pretty well recognised as someone who well..... I suppose is an arsehole.

I wrote a comment over at UFO breakfast and the esteemed Turbulent Velvet directed me to his Asshole theory post from some two years ago.

Asshole Theory

a holiday offering

1

Shorter Plato's Republic:

Only assholes are motivated to seek public office. This is the eternal and perhaps insoluble conundrum of politics.

2

Soliticing no reputation for respectability, X people are freely obscene and profane, but tend to deploy vile language with considerable rhetorical effectiveness, differing from proles by using f@%$ing as a modifier only now and then and never dropping the g. They may be rather fonder than most people of designating someone--usually a public servant or idol of the middle class--an asshole. Paul Fussell, Class

3

There was an asshole in Gurdjieff's meditative community--the surly, weasely, backstabbing guy that all the other members loathed being around. At one point he left the community and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Gurdjieff paid him to come back and continue living there just so he'd keep rankling everybody.

No enlightenment without assholes.

A couple of additions.

4

When I see beings of unpleasant character
Opressed by strong negativity and suffering,
May I hold them dear-for they are rere to find-
As if I have discovered a jewel treasure!- The Dalai Lama

The good Dalai attributes this to those of socially marginalized, however I can read arseholes into this description.

5

A Nostradamus like prophecy from 1995!!!!!!!

Scum rises to the top

We Americans promote disrespect for our Constitution, rule of law and private property in our pursuit of "social justice." But the scum that rises to the top have an agenda of command and control that's leading toward totalitarianism. And, incidentally, it's no coincidence that most of those at the top are lawyers - people with a special, seemingly tutored, contempt for our Constitution and rule of law.

An essay from 1995 by Walter Williams

Or perhaps things have remained just as they always were???

6

The pathocrats

The actions of [pathocracy] affect an entire society, starting with the leaders and infiltrating every town, business, and institution. The pathological social structure gradually covers the entire country creating a “new class” within that nation. This privileged class [of pathocrats] feels permanently threatened by the “others”, i.e. by the majority of normal people. Neither do the pathocrats entertain any illusions about their personal fate should there be a return to the system of normal man. [Andrew M. Lobaczewski, Ph.D. (psychology); Political Ponerology: A science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes]

The thing with arseholes, everyone has one.

Whether it be that guy at the top of the food chain you work for deciding that rationalization of your job would be in lin with increasing shareholder value. Or the politician you've been trying to get an answer from about the new freeway going through your backyard.