Witch House

Things continue to be well. Sun and strength and a burgeoning sense of satisfaction. My mother and sister continue to maintain that I am going to get this job. I scoff but it’s a witch house. Such things are in the blood.

That’s a different sort of tone for us, isn’t it? I feel like I can tell you anything, internet. Let’s never fight again.

Our topic today is talking shit. Let’s scrub up and don gloves.

What is this? It is related to set theory in the sense that the operative property is one of organization. By casting some third party as other, the speaker offers a reclassification of social bonds in which speaker and listener are linked as self. Supposition of a self requires there to be a non-self. It’s a simple binary.

Why do we do this? Talking shit is one of the easiest ways to establish or strengthen social connectedness. You suggest that you and your audience are united and they then have the option of ratifying your suggestion by taking part.

It is also one of the few ways to use negative force to achieve a positive end. Rather than identifying and addressing the particulars of commonly held belief you instead isolate and belittle the alien. It's an awful practice. The trouble is that I am very good at this.

I will now wear a rubber band. I will operantly condition myself through mild pain and public humiliation. Wish me luck.