Where The Scary Things Live
Okay, so we all like lists. Lists are good. The internet is GREAT for lists. They’re quick and easy to read, punctuation is optional. David Letterman built a career on them. I think in general Americans love lists. we’re task oriented and what sums up a collection of tasks or items better than a list. Here are two lists. One is rather insightful and here is one that it just banal.
2. Smart Terrorists
I don’t want to give the terrorists any ideas, but have you ever taken five minutes to think of all the ways you could terrorize the entire United States on a budget of about $10? Luckily al-Qaeda is busy trying to redirect an asteroid toward the Whitehouse. I worry that they’ll give up on trying to top the last scheme and actually do some terrorizing. If those terrorists worked for your company, they would have been downsized four years ago.” - Scott Adams, The Dilbert Blog
This is very insightful. I’m with Scott. Keeping in the theme of – What Scares The Bejesus Out Of Me this is up there for me.
#14 Getting caught noticing another woman.
A man’s instinctual response to visual stimulation very rarely has anything to do with his current relationship or how he feels about it. But his lizard brain reacts instantly, and before he knows he’s doing it, he’s looking at someone else. We hate having to explain behaviors that even we don’t fully understand.” - David Zinczenko, “What Scares a Man?”
I don’t know. This sounds like a lot of safe regurgitated locker room chatter. It is a generalization. Kind of like saying Americans like lists, how ridiculous (joke). It’s clear that a lot of people didn’t agree with David by the 3300+ comments left that day about his list.
