=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= VS -- My roomate and I just finished arguing tonight (again) about whether or not my Sega Saturn kicks his Sony Playstation's ass. (it does). We tend to have these arguements late at night when we are doing the paperwork after our shift at our local stuffer-shack, which we happen to manage. After I got home, made the rounds of local BBSes (too broke to call LD anymore, still haven't gotten an ISP, female in my life sucks right now...) I sat and pondered what drove myself, my friend, and people everywhere to argue some of the most inane things to the ground. I mean, it's not confined to such things as video-game systems. Every couple of months, someone has to re-vitalize the arguement that has existed for more than a decade: Macintosh vs. IBM (and clones, etc etc), sometimes tossing in UNIX nowadays for good measure. Now that homosexuality isn't faux pax as to the degree it was, I've even heard TEENAGERS arguing which 'way' was better. Gay vs Straight. Females against males. Which sex is the dominant one (one look at history should make that clear, but chicks just don't get it. Heh.) Sports nuts (the bane of human mental evolution) don't just argue team vs team anymore, some go as far as to declare their favorite sport as being 'better' than others! "Yeah, well soccer is much harder to play than baseball", I overheard (read?) one lamer espouse upon the other. What? Not to mention religion. Hell, we've had the crusades, the inquisition, each one with some nutcase (sent from god, or something) declaring his/her religion to be the true one, and slaying any populace who disagrees. Racism. Black vs White. White vs Red. White vs (wait, I sense a pattern here...) etc... The list goes on and on. It may have no ending, as each generation has a new set of conflicts, and re-hashes age-old ones to boot. What fuels this undying need for conflict? Heh, I have a theory. -=No one wants to side with the loser.=- Thats it. Pretty neat theory huh? It took me all of five seconds to formulate, and I'm sure (100%) its been thought hundreds of time before. But it answers that question completely. Which question? Pick one. God vs No-God. White vs Black. Saturn vs Playstation. No one wants to be on the losing side. We build up our 'side' inside our psyche, we research our 'slant' and make sure we can demolish the opposition when we argue. We root for our 'team' in hopes we can drive them to succede like we declared. We hope that we weren't slighted by fate and born the wrong color. We pray to any deity listening that GOOD games come out on our console so we can wave them in our friends faces and say, "See!!@# I got the good stuff, you have shit!@". We secretly cherish in our hearts, the knowledge that our opposition will be merrily burning in hell when judgement comes about. We laugh before we go to sleep each night knowing that christians the world over are wasting thier life trying to conform to a myth. When do we as humans assume these 'sides'? Well, sure, we're usually born with some of our 'sides' choosen for us by genes. Yeah, some of the sides we assume when we make our purchases down at Best Buy. But where does the need to fight for some of our choices arise? Why do we feel the need to put down our 'opposition', often times when nothing arises to incite such hostility? Why do we as humans have this incessant urge to fight one another? Is it entirely a bad thing? Which came first...the arguement, or the arguementative? I still can't figure out where we get our drive to name one thing tantamount to another. I mean, sure, there are some valid arguements for many of those cases, but not always. And sometimes its a matter of perspective. But still we fight to no end (often times WAY out of proportion) to make sure the world understands _we are right_, and everyone else is either wrong or agrees with us. I suppose you may be reading and asking yourself, "uhm, what was the point I already knew all of that...", and I have no answer. Well, other than the fact that if it really didn't interest you, you wouldn't have read this far into the article, would you have? 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