My moment of zen for the day:
Most of the people I know come up to me personally to congratulate me on my brilliance. Therefore they
find it unnecessary to send me an email response.

If you've been as entertained by the current mass e-mail debacle as I have been, you'll know where that quote came from. Ok, so be forewarned I'm going to rant about it.

You know what annoys me? A person who chooses to refute another person's statement by calling them uneducated (a label, in this particular case, based on whether or not you have knowledge of "A Modest Proposal" and whatever other literary works the person chooses as examples).

1. I'm not impressed, not at all, and I didn't send an e-mail because I didn't see why I should. If I disagreed with you, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't hear me out on it. After all, I'm just part of the "world" which, let me guess, "just doesn't understand you." I will say that I once had a decent opinion of you--it takes guts to dress like that on campus.

2. I'm pissed, because you give intelligent people a bad image. I'm so tired of intellectuals trying constantly to box themselves off into some group seperate from the "uneducated masses:" We're special, really! I've read James Joyce! I've read Plato! Haha! silly plebian, you haven't read any of these, but I'll base my arguments on them so you cannot argue back!

The fact is, you dress in clothes that make you appear a pariah. You claim that people don't listen to you; when people get mad at you, you can just claim they can't possibly understand you, that they're silly little blockheads. You don't listen to people who are different from you, people who may have quite excellent ideas but come from a different background. You, my friend, are a fucking snob. Ironic isn't it? And I can't stand snobbery. There is no excuse for it.

You know what? I don't know Cody all that well. He was in my Psych 101 class and I know that he is named for the place in Wyoming where he was conceived. That's it. So yes, I'm passing judgement on someone I don't know. And I'm not really pissed. I just can't stand to have that e-mail be the last word. Frankly, the whole thing was really hilarious. I mean, it was someone arguing that the other person is wrong to say what they did because they're DUMB. Don't dress it up in references and too many paragraphs. Just say it.