the other night i was obsessing about how we can be sure that we exist right before bed. this sometimes happens to me late at night when i'm lying in the dark. i wonder if i really exist, and it's very scary. andrew thinks it is evidence that I am a bit off. i’ve never claimed to be completely rational (it’s hard for an economist andrew to process that).
so i said to andrew: maybe that is why i am so bi-polar with my emotions, because that is a way to know you exist.
and andrew said to me: well, i think it can be bad to be so bi-polar.
then andrew thought for awhile, and he said: i think that men are emotional socialists.
me: what?! you are so crazy, i can’t believe you just called yourself a socialist!
andrew: yeah, well, men have dampened emotions with little growth and women have cyclical emotions that rise and fall, with booms and busts. i’d much rather be an emotional socialist than an emotional capitalist.
are you an emotional socialist or capitalist?
Thursday, February 18, 2010
andrew is a socialist
Posted by Andrew at 7:37 AM
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i may actually fall on the capitalist side of the specturm on this debate.
total capitalist, though my frequent depressions make it clear that it's a faulty system.
ditto to eunice, but glad to hear that Andrew is slowly accepting true wisdom.
thinking back, i don't remember andrew's comments being quite so gendered. maybe he just said, "you are an emotional capitalist and i am an emotional socialist," and i processed it as a gendered comment.
but what if i am an emotional fascist?!
Emotional facist. That sounds like what I probably am, though I am not exactly sure about what that means.
It sounds like you were having a moment of Solipsism. Nothing to worry about, we all get it sometimes, and in the end, it basically comes down to the fact that it actually doesn't even matter. The universe may or may not exist, may or may not be an illusion or a dream or a simulation or a hologram, but if it's impossible to tell, then don't worry about it.
So eat, drink, and be merry, for the entirety of existence may fake!
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