The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides.
Roo: What__ your definition of popularity?Hutch: I used to think people were popular because they were good-looking, or nice, or funny, or good at sports. Roo: Aren__ they?Hutch: I__ think, if I could just be those things, I__ _ you know _ have more friends than I do. But in seventh grade, when Jackson and those guys stopped hanging out with me, I tried as hard as I could to get them to like me again. But then . . . (shaking his head as if to clear it) I don__ really wanna talk about it. Roo: What happened? Hutch: They just did some ugly stuff to me is all. And really, it was for the best. Roo: Why?Hutch: Because I was cured. I realized the popular people weren__ nice or funny or great-looking. They just had power, and they actually got the power by teasing people or humiliating them _ so people bonded to them out of fear. Roo: Oh. Hutch: I didn__ want to be a person who could act like that. I didn__ want to ever speak to any person who could act like that. Roo: OhHutch: So then I wasn__ trying to be popular anymore. Roo: Weren__ you lonely?Hutch: I didn__ say it was fun. (He bites his thumbnail, bonsai dirt and all.) I said it was for the best.
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Roo: What__ your definition of popularity?Hutch: I used to think people were popular because they were good-looking, or nice, or funny, or good at sports. Roo: Aren__ they?Hutch: I__ think, if I could just be those things, I__ _ you know _ have more friends than I do. But in seventh grade, when Jackson and those guys stopped hanging out with me, I tried as hard as I could to get them to like me again. But then . . . (shaking his head as if to clear it) I don__ really wanna talk about it. Roo: What happened? Hutch: They just did some ugly stuff to me is all. And really, it was for the best. Roo: Why?Hutch: Because I was cured. I realized the popular people weren__ nice or funny or great-looking. They just had power, and they actually got the power by teasing people or humiliating them _ so people bonded to them out of fear. Roo: Oh. Hutch: I didn__ want to be a person who could act like that. I didn__ want to ever speak to any person who could act like that. Roo: OhHutch: So then I wasn__ trying to be popular anymore. Roo: Weren__ you lonely?Hutch: I didn__ say it was fun. (He bites his thumbnail, bonsai dirt and all.) I said it was for the best.
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