Mental Masturbation~part 2

Recently, one of the blog writers whom I very much enjoy, launched a massive, full scale, acerbic assault upon the writing and beliefs of another blog writer. It was delightfully wicked, highly intelligent, and incredibly unkind.

To my shame, I actually found myself enjoying the writer's blistering insults. It was all so beautifully and masterfully written that I almost missed the underlying ugliness.

When people use their wit, and their incredible intelligence to tear down another person (deserved or not), it just plain sucks. It's wrong and I won't engage in this unconscionable form of mental masturbation again.

After all, that's what this whole thing really was. The blog writer was mentally masturbating himself through his clever manipulation of the written word; and we, the readers became so stimulated by it all, that we couldn't resist joining in on the orgy.

I'm guessing that we've all run into the kind of intellectual elitist who likes to focus upon some obscure idea and then mentally stroke themselves into a frenzy of frontal lobe activity until every brain cell explodes in self aggrandizing waves of orgasmic delight.

These individuals truly are smarter than the rest of us. The fact that they know they are so much smarter is what makes their form of mental masturbation so darn pleasurable for them. They don't have to be mean to heighten their own pleasure.

No, it's people like myself that you have to watch out for. You see, we understand that we aren't all that bright; but we also know that we have a gift to create and appreciate acerbic humor. Sometimes out of our own smallness, we just can't seem to help but to cut some poor soul to smithereens whether they deserve their own dissection or not.

As I have mentioned in my previous post, both the blogosphere and the world itself are becoming increasingly smaller. We have the power to choose whether these environments are warm and nurturing, or cold and inhospitable.

Today, I'm suggesting that we strive to make all of our communities, loving communities. I'm suggesting that we choose to treat one another with compassion, understanding and kindness. I'm suggesting that we don't just love the people who most closely resemble our own selves and our own beliefs; but rather, that we love and respect all people, especially those who are most different from our own selves.

I just can't help but wonder how much better all of our lives would be if we spent less energy self pleasuring and more energy loving one another. I know for a fact that doing this improves life in the marital bed; so, it stands to reason that it's got to work in other respects, right?

I like to think so anyway...