The town of Uzès, pronounced ee-oo-ZESS, NOT, as some who don't
like me much might suggest, ooozes :-), is the small town closest to
where I'm staying. See http://uk.uzes-tourisme.com/
http://uk.uzes-tourisme.com/ , and if you want to fully see the
horror, decadence, and depravity of the place Turq would choose to go on
vacation, watch the video at that link.
I wasn't going to bother writing anything to FFL for the next couple of
weeks, just to see how crazy the stalkers get when the object of their
hatred is withdrawn from them, but this cafe is so pleasant that I
figured I'd write a little something anyway, just to share my overall
SOB (state of bliss), and thus piss them off and encourage them to
reveal who they really are and what motivates them in life. :-)
Me, I'm enjoying what motivates me in life -- sitting in a nice sidewalk
cafe, watching people (Uzès is famous for being home to some of the
most lovely women in France, both French and ex-pats who have settled
here), and rapping about Odd Things That Occur To Me.
Today's Odd Thing may be a replay, in that it's a personal theory of
mine that I may have mentioned here before, and I know that may piss off
Those Who Didn't Get It First Time I Mentioned It, but frankly, if
they're that dense, why should I worry about them? It's Turq's Judo
Theory Of How Pretty Much Everything Works.
The science of Judo (a sportified version of Jiu-Jitsu, Aikido, and
other Japanese martial arts), is all based on one basic idea -- spend
most or all of your energy pushing *against* something, and you render
yourself off balance, and thus make yourself easy meat for anyone who
knows something about the martial arts. Think about it. If you're
pushing *against* something or someone, you are *by definition* off
balance. All that your opponent has to do do defeat you is to step out
of the way, and your own off-balance momentum causes you to fall flat on
your face.
That's it, the whole theory, in case you're already bored, and want to
stop reading. :-) For those who aren't clueful enough to get it without
further explanation, this theory covers the mechanics of behavior in
battle, in social activities like politics, and in social networking
activities like...uh...FFL.
In battle (or pseudo-battle, such as Judo matches), people who throw
themselves off balance by pushing *against* their opponent...uh...LOSE.
End of story. They have in essence defeated *themselves* by allowing
their self to become so attached to defeating the person they're
pushing against.
In politics, this same Judo Theory Of Everything explains (at least to
me) the whole sad story of revolution/counterrevolution over the ages.
Think the Russian Revolution. Everybody was so fixated on pushing
*against* the czars that when they went away, they suddenly found
themselves in the position of having nothing else to push against. And
with that realization came another -- they'd never thought about what
was going to happen if the czars went away. They were so obsessive about
what they were *against* that they'd never put any thought into what
they were *for*. Therefore, when their enemy was withdrawn from them,
they had no idea what to do. So they made up *new* enemies, from within
their own ranks, and created a *new* revolution against *them*. This
scenario has repeated itself over and over and over throughout the
centuries.
On social media, you see exactly the same thing. Think FFL. There are
people here who *still* fly into a rage and lash out *against* someone
like Andrew Skolnick, with whom they have not interacted for more than a
decade, and who never once posted to this forum. There are still people
who cannot go a month without lashing out *against* someone like Curtis
or Vaj or Sally Sunshine or Ruth or others who gave up on this place as
a waste of their valuable time long ago.
And I would suggest that the reason is that the people who do this are
Lazy Fucks, who have never put any thought into what they're *for* in
life. For most of those lives, they've pursued the Easy Path, of only
focusing on the things and people they're *against*. When those things
or people are withdrawn *from* their focus, they panic, and keep pushing
against them anyway.
NOT that I'm suggesting this might be happening on FFL the last few
days, since their favorite push against victim stopped posting as
much. It *can't* be that the folks who rag on him non-stop (or who
emerged from the woodwork like roaches just so that they could rag on
him again) can't think of anything else to do. That would be
*embarrassing* for them, and we all know that their whole lives revolve
around micromanaging their images to pretend that they're *never*
embarrassed by their own behavior. :-)
Anyway, that's my theory, which is mine. You may agree with it, or
disagree with it, and -- either way -- I don't really give a fuck. As
much as it may pain those who focus on me non-stop may like to believe
it, NOTHING they write affects me terribly much.
