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Remember those popular bullies in high school? They had social connections and emotional intelligence and all that shit, they had people skills and knew how to woo the teachers and get better grades than they deserved. They talked nicely with any authority but were total jerks when teachers turned their backs. They were merciless with the weak, they were cowardly with the authority figures, they were a nightmare to be around.

But above all they were stupid. They knew nothing, they read nothing, they just pretended to be knowledgeable and stuff. They pretended to have a classy taste in music but they liked whatever it happened to be popular at that time. They pretended to like each other but actually were on the lookout. No one was a friend, everyone was their competition. And you thought at the time: “If only high school were over! If only! These impostors can’t survive too much out there in the real world where you actually have to know something in order to be worth something”. And then high-school was over. And then you met them again.

They were your bosses. They were your colleagues acting like bosses. They pretended they knew stuff. They asked you to do stuff. They wanted your obedience. They wanted your reports and explanations. They made you feel like shit. And god forbid you ever asked them about their work. Because you weren’t good enough to even ask that question. They were on a higher plane than you would ever be and don’t you forget that! They schmoozed their way through a good job just like they schmoozed it through college. And the schmoozing never ends. The social mingling. The pretending you care. The teamwork. Wherever you will go there will be some smart-ass taking credit for all your collective effort. Because he can. Because he’s streetwise.

And the saddest part is that those bullies flooded th blogosphere. All the stars out there are basically bullies of the lowest possible demeanor. And they write and they  cause trouble and pick on people and curse and judge and are racist and misogynistic and all gather around in one big clique. They can say anything they want, as outrageous as it can be, and nothing will happen to them for underneath them lies a huge fan-base who dream only of becoming like those high ranked bullies. And the fan base applauds and cheers and everything is perfect. You cand pick on anybody when you’re an A-lister and it will bring only more traffic. People hate you? Hurray, more visitors! The conversion rate of hate is very high.

And the PR people who look for blogs as billboards for their banners just love these guys. They have no ethics? Who cares? They have traffic. So, yeah, let’s pay them in order to spread even more hate and hypocrisy. Let’s reward this behaviour. Let’s throw them a party and play secret santa and watch their greedy eyes and their shrude politeness. Let’s get them all in one room and look at them how friendly they get with people they’ve never met. Let’s watch the neverending human hypocrisy, let’s enjoy this, it’s better than a movie.

So take a look at these pics and ask yourself if you would stand to be in that club/room. All that smiling and hugging among strangers, all the laughing and false friendship. Would you have had the power to pretend that you like dozens of perfect strangers for an entire evening? If yes, you are among the chosen ones, you are a person with extraordinary social skills – that kind that seems to be valued everywhere nowadays. For you it’s high-school all over again and you can pick on the weak once more because no one will ever hear their voices shouting in despair and outrage. They are not social, therefore they do not exist. Yey!