Inflating egos
In this era of rampant psychology degrees we are being forced to reconsider what we once referred to as the dregs of society. Persons once passed by with a disdainful sniff are now sought out by national television reporters who seek to titillate their audiences with weepy exposes of how these persons were led astray. I expect one of these days it will be Clifford Olson’s turn to tell the world how he was switched by his maiden aunt.
I was reading The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook by Beard and Cerf recently and found that people we used to call drunks and sots must have their egos preserved. They should be called sobriety deprived or chemically inconvenienced. A drunk who gets tossed into a cell becomes a client of the correction system.
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Thinking back on my misspent youth, I’ve just thought of a way my father could have engendered a little more enthusiasm when he sent me to the barn with a pitchfork and a stone boat.
He could have told me I was single-handedly preserving the environment by recycling bovine waste.What he did tell me was much more to the point.
