"When everyone has the same misperception of reality β when everyone believes something untrue, even something patently absurd β it doesn't feel untrue or absurd to them. When a false or illogical idea is constantly repeated and reinforced by nearly everyone, it rarely occurs to anyone to even begin to question it.
In fact, most people become literally incapable of questioning it, because over time it becomes solidified in their minds as a given β an assumption that doesn't need a rational basis and doesn't need to be analyzed or reconsidered, because everyone knows it to be true.
In reality, however, each person simply assumes it to be true, because he cannot imagine that everyone else β including all the respectable, well-known, educated people on the radio and TV β could all believe something false. What business does one average individual have doubting something which everyone else seems perfectly comfortable accepting as indisputable truth?"
β The Most Dangerous Superstition
Three AM came more quickly than a porn-addicted virgin locked in a room with nympho XXX actresses, and a bottle of Canola oil. A lion with no teeth, I wandered the promiscuous plains of the swing shack in search of wounded prey. Unfortunately, the herd β similar to Woody Harrelson's hair, from pre-Cheers to post β had thinned severely.
Akin to a ninth inning, two out, two strike, 507 run deficit, things weren't lookin' promising. A swimmer traveling upstream, I'd stroked and stroked, and gotten nowhere all night.
The situation had reached such an abject low, I'd received the following response, after hitting on a potential playmate: "No thanks," the one-eyed lass remarked. "I saw you fucking two women here a month ago, and it was disgusting!"
"Yes, butβ," had come my sole retort. Thoughts of what I look like, while having sex, spanned my one synapse left firing. I almost puked. The woman was correct: Limp split ends have more body than I do.
Like a cat stuck in an open field during a hail storm, it seemed I would find no refuge this night from the barrage of denigration.