May 10, 2011

FRIENDLESS IN THE CITY

So in a weekly routine to visit the book store I witnessed the strangest thing. It didn't involve a prepubescent child having a moment, or a homeless person recycling Motown's best, yet a seemingly sane woman reading two books. The one in hour hand, The Catcher in the Rye, the one billowing beneath her cryptic fingers, How to Win Friends and Influence People. 


Pause for reaction.




I thought we all knew how to win friends, by being a democrat, wondering why American Idol is still on air, and hating Katy Perry music but finding it equally irresistible. You become a victim of group think, lose your individually and partake in meaningless gossip and by way of association accumulate other people, to chat with,skype, go out, perhaps sex, aka "friends". You needed a book to tell you that?. Just observing people all through my 22 years I discovered you gain friends by being like others assimilation  and you influence them by doing it better than most. Plotting and scheming at best. Perfect example Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian


Case closed.

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