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"Nks."
What is Nks you ask? It's the sound people make when you hold a door open for them, or possibly if you get your buddy a beer from the fridge while you're up.
Let me explain. People are lazy, indolent, greedy creatures by nature. Sloth is, in effect, the definition of the human character in 99% of people. This is what causes people to feel the need to shorten everything to an acronym, or to shorten their names from Timothy to just Tim.
This is what also causes people to shorten the phrase "Thank you." to just an unintelligible sound -- "Nks."
And it fills me completely with an unutterable rage every time some fucking bastard that I just held the door open for barely even manages to grunt in acknowledgement. It makes me die a little inside every time I realize a new way that society has devolved into a completely useless wasteland of ineptitude and more importantly, ingratitude.
The Oprah Effect
People that espouse "empowerment" are largely the cause of this downfall. Empowerment is a bunch of bullshit made up by some very intelligent people that decided that if they made people believe that they had some kind of power over their lives, and the lives of others, that they could then charge gobs and gobs of money for workshops, seminars, and all the other goodies that go along with a good scam.
When people believe that they are empowered to help, control, or otherwise affect the outcome of other people's lives, this gives in to narcissism. Narcissism leads to contemplating how great you are, which leads you to thinking about how people could be changed by your greatness, which leads you to thinking about how if you could just share your greatness through a book showing how you became so great, and how people could empower themselves....you see where I'm going with this.
Now, how does The Oprah Effect actually tie in to the dreaded "Nks."? Thusly:
Empowerment leads to
Narcissism leads to
Contemplation of Oneself leads to
Degradation of everything that society(or your father) beat into you as a child leads to
"Nks." leads to
Me bashing the door closed on your head repeatedly.
How can I prevent a vicious beating you ask? It's simple. Instead of saying "Thanks"(which inevitably becomes "Nks."), say "Thank you". Or surprise me with a shred of intelligence and say something like "Thank you very much" or even "Much obliged".
Really it comes down to this; if the fucking snake from Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone can say "Thanks". You fucking can too.
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