Oh It Feels So Good to be a Curmudgeon

There are Positives to Having Enemies and Being an Extremist.

I’ll admit, I love satire. I’m snarky and maybe a little negative. I have to reign that stuff in, or that’s what I’m told. I love being self-righteous too. I have even been called a curmudgeon. I’m not sure what that means. I’m just saying it how it is, everyone else is crazy. I’m pretty sure it only happens to you when you get older because my kids are pretty jovial about things. They’ve even invented new, nifty slang. I just learned like 10 new words over the holiday, but I was told I can’t use them in real sentences or polite conversation cause I’m too old. Like ‘bruh, that was lit.’ Not for curmudgeons TBH LOL. John Cleese is pretty old but he’s downright funny and I don’t think he’s a curmudgeon cause he’s trying to look on the positives:

Having enemies just makes you feel good… the great thing about having enemies is that you can pretend that all the badness in the whole world is in your enemies and all the goodness in the whole world is in you.

If you have a lot of anger and resentment in you anyway and you therefore enjoy abusing people then you can pretend that you're only doing it because these enemies of yours are such very bad persons and that if it wasn't for them you'd actually be good-natured and courteous of rational all the time so if you want to feel good become an extremist.

Now… once your arm yourself with one of these super lists of enemies you can be as nasty as you like and yet feel your behavior is morally justified so you can strut around using people and telling them you could eat them for breakfast and still think of yourself as a champion of the truth are a fighter for the greater good.

J.M. Berger:

If you believe that only “the other guys” can produce extremists and that your own identity group cannot, you may be an extremist yourself.

And Jesus said to them:

It's easy to see a smudge on your neighbor's face and be oblivious to the ugly sneer on your own. What do you mean, "Get the speck out of your eye" when your own eye is full of dirt? Get the dirt out of your own eye first, then you can see clearly and get the speck out of your neighbor's.

And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them.

Ouch.