Re: 68 isn't too old to stop, Jon.

On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 21:19:25 -0700, Jonathan Ball <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On 12/2/2020 8:25 AM, Rupert wrote:
>> On Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at 4:07:42 PM UTC+1, Derek wrote:
>>>
>>> 1. 68 isn't too old to stop doing things that *revolt* you.
>>> 2. 68 isn't too old to stop *feeling* revolted at what you do.
>>> 3. 68 isn't too old to stop having to *ready* yourself before #1 and #2.
>>>
>>> "Every now and then, when I think about what's involved
>>> in eating meat, the thought revolts me. The feeling never
>>> lasts, and at my next meal I'm always ready to tuck into
>>> a chunk of meat."
>
>As I just did.  It was pork loin roast.

This unguarded statement owning up to a sense of revulsion when eating meat
shows plainly that your entire time spent arguing against vegans who abstain
from it for the same reason has been a fraudulent attack upon a group whom
you've tried but failed to aspire to. Eating meat doesn't come naturally to
you. The very thought of it revolts you, but unlike the vegan who lives by
the strength of his convictions you don't have that strength, and so you try
to belittle their efforts instead. Well, I get the last laugh, Jon, and he
who laughs last... It was inevitable. 
>> 
>> Jonathan Ball expressed the hope, relatively recently, that I would never ever get a tenure-track position or any decently paid job at all and would spend the rest of my life in a pit of despair, possibly ending up on the streets.

Tall poppy syndrome. We're talking about a slacker who failed to get the
education he went after and then lied about having achieved his aim. He's
quite pathetic. To paraphrase something he wrote which clearly applies to
himself, "He clumsily pretends to a level of education and sophistication he
doesn't have, striving earnestly for good marks. It's fake - but also funny.
It's also sad, because it bespeaks a massive insecurity." He's his own worst
insult, and it tickles me pink.
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