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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!odin
- From: odin@world.std.com (Hank Roth)
- Subject: Assholes
- Message-ID: <BrtHAE.8pI@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:56:37 GMT
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- I would like to highly recommend a book called ASSHOLE NO MORE.
- It is by Xavier Crement, M.D. and is a self-help guide for
- recovering assholes and their victims. I can think of several
- people I could send it to on these nets with sincerest hope that
- it would lead to recovery.
-
- The introduction begins thusly: "Like almost everyone else, I have
- been dealing with assholes all my life. For most fo this time,
- however, I have been, like most of society, trapped in our age-
- old concepts of assholism. Failing to recognize it as a disease,
- I simply accepted it as a character flaw that could be modified
- or eliminated at will."
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- "I have now come to understand the true nature of assholism. It
- is an addiction as bad as alcoholism, chemical dependency, or
- codependency. It afflicts major portions of the population---yet
- most assholes are not the least bit aware that they are
- assholes!"
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- The author goes on to describe certain characteristics that can
- be ascribed to common assholes, which are: "blind selfishness,
- unrestrained obnoxiousness, arrogant righteousness, an asbestos-
- proof conscience (it won't even burn in hell), rejection of
- human decency, merciless exploitation of the innocent," and
- there are more, too many to name here.
-
- The author, who is not a psychiatrist use to be an asshole
- himself, when he was a proctologist. He names other high risk
- groups of assholes. Here are just a few: "male nurses, Internal
- Revenue Service agents, cops, bureaucrats, lawyers, other
- doctors, Anyone who drives as if he or she owns the road,
- evangelists, congressmen, bill collectors, People who play car
- stereos at full volume, parents of kids who run wild in public
- places," et al.
-
- The book is available from Enthea Press. (address upon request)
- They also publish THE TAO OF MEOW and FART PROUDLY, if anyone is
- interested.
-
- **** "I'm OK, but you're an asshole"
- Cardinal Pushing
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