Stupidness and Angriness
Stupidness and angriness are like the best of lovers - they feed off each other, compliment each other, are the counterpoints to each others souls, and ultimately you really can't have one without the other.
For example, I was playing Starcraft, because I am a nerd, of course. Now, I couldn't beat this level - there were too many factors, too many enemies coming out on me at all sides. I'd been getting increasingly angry with it, which made me play more stupidly. So I saved my game and shut it off. Came back, and I won. Angriness fed stupidness.
Or, when you lose your case. In this case, your stupidness feeds your angriness, and you wish your keys were people, so that you could blow them away with a shotgun. Then you get angrier, then you get more stupid, and so on, and so on. It's a lovely cycle, usually broken only by a stroke of luck - you find your keys.
So if you get angry, treat yourself as if you're stupid, and explain it in the simplest possible language. After all, Wittgenstein said philosophy was all about trying to decipher language (I think...I may have read it wrong.) Treat it simply, explain it to yourself like you were a five-year-old, examining everything you know. If you do that, and you still can't do it, go away from the situation, and calm down. Do something else.
Of course, if you're looking for your keys and you have to leave in 5 minutes, just keep looking angrily and hopefully you won't be stupid enough to lose them and miss your meeting and then the guys all look at you funny and ask "Why weren't you at the meeting?" and you try to lie but you can't come up with anything because you're thinking about all the people staring at you and come on they all made that mistake but you didn't say anything and oh no they're still staring and just tell the truth don't no don't just yes...and then you feel a slight pain on the back of your head from when you hit the table while fainting.
You've just been hit by a public display of affection by les amant terribles, stupidness and angriness.
For example, I was playing Starcraft, because I am a nerd, of course. Now, I couldn't beat this level - there were too many factors, too many enemies coming out on me at all sides. I'd been getting increasingly angry with it, which made me play more stupidly. So I saved my game and shut it off. Came back, and I won. Angriness fed stupidness.
Or, when you lose your case. In this case, your stupidness feeds your angriness, and you wish your keys were people, so that you could blow them away with a shotgun. Then you get angrier, then you get more stupid, and so on, and so on. It's a lovely cycle, usually broken only by a stroke of luck - you find your keys.
So if you get angry, treat yourself as if you're stupid, and explain it in the simplest possible language. After all, Wittgenstein said philosophy was all about trying to decipher language (I think...I may have read it wrong.) Treat it simply, explain it to yourself like you were a five-year-old, examining everything you know. If you do that, and you still can't do it, go away from the situation, and calm down. Do something else.
Of course, if you're looking for your keys and you have to leave in 5 minutes, just keep looking angrily and hopefully you won't be stupid enough to lose them and miss your meeting and then the guys all look at you funny and ask "Why weren't you at the meeting?" and you try to lie but you can't come up with anything because you're thinking about all the people staring at you and come on they all made that mistake but you didn't say anything and oh no they're still staring and just tell the truth don't no don't just yes...and then you feel a slight pain on the back of your head from when you hit the table while fainting.
You've just been hit by a public display of affection by les amant terribles, stupidness and angriness.
posted by Marshall McMahon at 11:42 AM
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