Laughing at Political Correctness by David Cook
Author:David Cook [Cook, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: World Ahead Press
Published: 2017-01-11T17:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER 10
RELATIONSHIPSâWHAT DO YOU SAY WHEN YOU CANâT SAY NO?
A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? Ithas to constantly move forward or it dies.And I think what we got on our handsis a dead shark.
âWoody Allen
In our Bill Cosby chapter, we noted that the comedian allegedly slipped chemistry into the crescendos of his romantic overtures. If such melodies actually happened, they would be considered rape. Why? Because rape removes the victimâs possibly most cherished right: the right to say no to a relationship. Not even the beast in Beauty and the Beast or the prince in The Princess and the Frog could break their spells without performing that sales ritual known as âwooing the girl.â Kissing the girl without making her cry takes work. Bypassing the work is rape. Such are the demands of legitimately establishing a relationship. Let me assure you, I never left out the wooing before I married anyoneâI wooed them all.
So, whatâs so important about relationship? Aristotle claimed it was our reason that made us human. Nonsense. It was our parents who made us human. Knowledge, however, was also key. They knew each other, or we would not be here. The most important knowledge we can obtain is the knowledge of another person. This ranks above the knowledge of the heavens, except perhaps for one, and even that heaven revolves around our relationship with God through our relationship with our neighbors. If God is truth, then truth revolves around relationship. The easiest way to love our neighbors is to move to a smaller neighborhood, one to which, we can hope, the politically correctâor, if one is politically correct, the deplorable and proudâdo not have the key.
Philosophy is the love of wisdom. The wisdom of the world is for naught if one is alone in the world. The greatest philosophy ever written is worthless and valueless to a sole survivor dying of loneliness. Yet, of course, it could be argued that person, pen, and page have a relationship of sorts. We learn about ourselves and others as we write, but what we learn would have no value without the hope of relationship. Aristotle claimed we are political animals. Indeed, with the exception of a few of the longer wavelengths on the autism spectrum, we are relationship-oriented beasts. Even a misanthropeâs world would seem empty with no one left to hate.
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