The Holey Trinity

It is agreed that my ‘holey trinity’ is speech (or writing) about these three things:

1. Baggage (or the past)
2. Me (or my ego activities)
3. Something pessimisticSo, yes, this is ‘holey’ as in the Swiss cheese and hits a lactose intolerant dude like a ton of bricks.

Baggage

So some baggage we actually need. Just ask that bloke being gouged for hotel rates waiting at Heathrow Airport. But too, too many of my fellow Americans are suspicious—biased toward people carrying unnecessary baggage. Erykah Badu even has a song about it.

Since I am confident that my baggage is meant to carry general principles, an exercise for me, then, is to reverse my habitual moves and mention general principles first instead of a personal anecdote containing the general principle.

Me

I have already talked about this me issue (which is actually an ‘I’ issue) in an earlier Blog post in “The Blog and ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’.” From there, I write here that talking about other people requires meeting other people. Perhaps I can sell encyclopedias for a living? Maybe a different line of work will help me get out more often. But seriously…

Socializing my interests is rather challenging but not impossible. This is considered a serious problem for me and any major successes here would literally change my life for the better.

Pessimism

The kind of people who have accused me of spreading pessimism is usually a person that is saturated with “bad” news and really can’t take anymore. Just ask anyone who has a subprime loan coming after their ass. What most of these people are looking for is a narcotic social experience designed to carry them away from their problems. Clearly, I am pessimistic about people who religiously avoid pessimism.

This is going to sound like a bunch of bullshit but what I notice about me is that my “depressing talk” is largely about solving problems that seems to me solvable—or no longer seeing news as “bad” (or “good”) but just seeing information. So a behavior modification for me would be to announce these views explicitly. Doing so is very likely to make me appear strangely optimistic.

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