It's when I see pieces like this that I really, really want to start in on people. This guy's more or less living the same life as most of the rest of the country and it's unusual. I mean, what's wrong with people that sophmoric, narcissistic, self-destructive behaviour's considered normal? I mean, fuck, when The Onion's got you dead to rights, then maybe it's time to get a grip and grow up.
Then I get pissed at the rest of the world. People don't get so broken they need drugs to get off, or think so little of themselves that they risk their life, health, and safety for a quick lay without external help. And we, as a country, seem to have gone to a lot of trouble to make sure we break as many people as we can. "Fuck up the gay boy" seems like a national pastime in far, far too many places.
Then I end up wondering. Are we really, as a group, that busted? Or is it that we only notice the busted folks, while the rest of us are generally ignored? Is the problem that nobody but the broken are standing up and being noticed, so the only model of behavior's the broken one?
Posted by Dan at August 18, 2002 03:22 PM