The Unassuming Ones
I was sitting infront of my computer putting a fresh edge on my axe, as you do, I started thinking about social divides.
I’m not talking wealth or anything just the nature of groups in schools and colleges. They are like the small variations in species observed by Charles Darwin. Each group has it’s own set of rules, jokes and a rough hierarchy. Most importantly each group is pretty much cut-off from each other group and this causes some massive fluctuation in what people think is normal. One could quite easily see oneself in many classes, talking to many people but still not becoming privy to the info that matters about them and their group.
This is how you get those small groups that study hard, get good results and go absolutely mental when they are left alone with a drink. A bit like gremlins. You give them a drink after dark and they will run around in the darkness with no clothes on, wee on the front glass of ‘Marks and Spencer’ and throw up on the conductor on the 12:10am to London Vic. Then they will somehow get back for 8:45 the next day and get an A* in their Maths exam. What surprises us is that they just don’t fit to the semitropical archetype of ‘good grade kid’.
My theory about this behaviour is that these groups, all existing separately, do exude some stories. Only the juiciest of stories get murmured around, often exaggerated. However if one was engrossed in their studies and only loosely attached to the real world they could easily accept these stories as the normal. The media doesn’t help either, you don’t hear much about David. Nobody knows him because he is a desk analyst and a boring person. All we hear about is Charlie Sheen and his drug-addled antics. If the media was a fair representation of all lifestyles and not just the interesting ones then we might get less people following them.
So basically the “Paralytic-Professor” theory, as its called, boils down to distorted information chains and the Bio-Balance phenomenon. This basically says that no matter what our concious idea of the norm is; our subconsciousness knows the true norm and causes us to do crazy things sometimes just to make sure weaverage out somewhere near it.
So remember, let yourself go in moderation often. Otherwise you will find yourself 10 years down the line with so much bottled up crazy that your subconsciousness forces you to murder a policeman just to average yourself back to the normal. Partying hard is a moral obligation.
