^{Maybe I'm stressed out.}

^{I don't think it's a sign of weakness to be honest about that.}

^{Just This}

Probably won't have much to say today.

^{But I guess I won't know until I'm finished saying it.}

Every now and again you'll cross paths with people. Some of those people are impossible to click with. Sometimes you'll know instantly; other times it takes a bit of feeling around in the dark before you're able to decide if that individual is someone to invest time on.

I'm not talking about relationships. Just people, in general.

We're programmed at birth to be judgmental. We get better at it as we get older. If you were three years old and crossed paths with a lion, you'd be food. By the teen years you'd be able to sense the danger. Just by looking at that lion, you'll know to get out of there.

That's not fear.

^{It's wisdom.}

Some people look like lions to us. Something about them gives us a temporary heightened sense of awareness.

You're walking down the sidewalk, it's late, and you feel like you're being followed. You turn around and yes, there's someone there. The next night you're walking down the sidewalk, it's late, and you don't feel like you're being followed. You turn around, there's someone there.

What's the difference between those two people behind you on different nights? Why sense one and not the other?

It's a mystery.

^{Because we've lost touch with who we once were as a species.}

We don't know how to be that inner animal anymore. Then our confused society is telling us it's wrong to be judgmental. Society associates that word now with things like hate crimes in the worst case scenario. I don't hate the lion for wanting to eat me though.

Even on the subliminal spectrum, more confusion:

"Errors"

^{"Big mistake"}

"The use of judgment." So what is judgment?

"Sensible conclusions, awareness, common sense." And then some more confusion.

Common sense.

^{It isn't so common these days.}

It says discrimination up there. When is that okay in today's society? Nobody wants it. Right? We need to stand up for those people!

It's wrong to tell someone to get out of your English speaking country, because they are not speaking English. You would never treat someone with disrespect simply because you don't like the language, or the words coming out of their mouth, and you want everyone to know!

Never!

^{Never in a million years would you be that big of a jerk!}

Champion of the people!
^Hooray!

Fuck. Fuck. Fuckity fuck.

But now it's somehow perfectly fine to pull out your script and tell me all about how much of a low life I am for saying "fuck." Now you get to tell me how I'm not even able to form a rational thought and can't think without being angry. Now I'm a caveman. Now I speak the words of the uneducated slave and should be treated accordingly. You're okay with that. Anything intelligent that ever came out of my mouth no longer exists because I said fuck. Simpleminded, weak, and emotionally unstable!

And of course you'd treat me like that all while saying you're not a judgmental person, because you admittedly don't have any common sense.

Pulling the language card.

^{Bleep. Bleep. Bleep.}

What will they think of next...

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^{"Silly poo poo heads these days..."}

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