Because of this incredible web site I get email, some of it is hate mail but most of it is positive. I like all of it, but I especially love the hate mail. The fact that people actually dislike anything I have to say totally cracks me up. I am amazed that someone actually thinks it matters what I think of anything.
Anyway, I love my hate mail and I don't want it to ever stop. Since I know most hate mailers are kind of fragile I don't post it on the site since I don't want to scare any of you fucking yahoos off.
But this I can post. I got this one thing which isn't actually hate mail. It's kind of an argument against something I wrote. See for yourself, here it is.
to whoever wrote tow truck drivers are scum
tomorrow go up to the first tow truck you see and say it to his face
ya i thought so
Get this into you! I am leaving a gas station waiting to get across 2 lanes of traffic, I get a break westbound and proceed to have a A hole in a rice rocket
speed up to take my break
I honk at him he turns his head to give me the finger
WHAM right into the Caravan
I was going to pull in behind
Who is the dummy now?
I put my beacons on pulled up behind him called the cops
report done on scence
ticket for careless
embrassed in front of girlfriend
PRICELESS
As far as I can tell this person is upset about something I wrote about tow truck drivers. Apparently the sender is a tow truck driver. Of course I don't hate all tow truck drivers, that's absurd, I don't even know any. They must all be separate and distinct individuals, but I will say that while towing cars they are wastes of skin and they can all go fuck themselves.
I could make fun of this email, but I won't. Why not? Though my urge to mock this email is nearly killing me as I type this sentence I'm taking the high road.
Life is short, meaningless and so unbelievably beautiful and incredible its a shame to waste any of it. I spend most of my time trying to figure out how to live a life worth living, and I waste some of my time thinking about what other people do to make it worse, or better. Then I come up with ideas, and usually also opinions. These opinions are useful to me because they help me organize the things I see and understand as the way things are. These opinions are not facts. They are beliefs that can change, grow, be smothered in hollandaise, suffocate on venus, or be emailed to God.
It makes no difference what I think of tow truck drivers, fuck, as far as you know I could be a tow truck driver. It also makes no difference what I think of this guy. So I'm posting his email to show him something, maybe he will learn it was a bad idea to attempt to persuade me of his worth as a human. And it failed. I don't have to like your job, or you either, and you don't have to like me. People are fickle wishy washy mushheads, me included. We can wear very tight pants and act like an organism we imagine people will like and even then we can't really control how people will feel about us.
But we can say what we think. I have nothing but opinions, most are based on shifty evidence, flimsy conclusions and self deceptive interpretations of personal experiences, but some are valid. I don't know which they are, but they're in here somewhere. As a side note I can't even remember 90% lot of the opinions I've thrown around over the years, but I love every word of them anyway.
You don't have to listen, or read them. You don't have to agree, in fact I usually disagree. I'm a punk rock Al Sharpton with an oscar winning poker face bluffing on hand after hand of anti-conformist ideas which I've reasoned out on logical foundations almost shakier than the bible. Keeping that in mind I know that I am wrong a lot, but I am not always wrong. There are magical moments here and there where I am right on the fucking money. The rest of the time is just practice.
So go on and have your opinions, they're yours to make. You can even start a web page about them, and if its funny enough I might even read it (fat chance). You might try to keep in mind that the more facts and the less assumptions and comforting rationalizations you use to form an opinion, the more likely that opinion will be useful to you. Unless you're very stupid, in which case ask someone smart for their opinion and use that one instead.