Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for October 31, 2009

La-la-la, Alice is not listening!

The 4-year-old mind at work.

There’s more than a 4yr old mind at work here, me thinks. Hopefully for the other drivers, she is out of cupcakes!

Those people have to get home so that their kids can trick or treat, too, Alice.

..ummm…

I miss those days when the universe was centered around me.

Amazingly, there are still some “adults” who still act like 4-year old Alice!

What a waste of a perfectly good cupcake!!

A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. Here’s one example of the utter wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely talk about this sort of natural, basic self-centeredness, because it’s so socially repulsive, but it’s pretty much the same for all of us, deep down. It is our default-setting, hard-wired into our boards at birth. Think about it: There is no experience you’ve had that you were not at the absolute center of. The world as you experience it is right there in front of you, or behind you, to the left or right of you, on your TV, or your monitor, or whatever. Other people’s thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real – you get the idea.

– David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College Commencement Address, 2005

fritzoid, that’s joke-killing at its finest! thanks!

4 year old logic methinks…

Each of us is the center of our own universe. Hopefully, we learn to recognize and respect that others are important to themselves, as well.