Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!zehntel!ihnp4!mhuxl!ulysses!allegra!alice!rabbit!sdh From: sdh@rabbit.UUCP (Yah Right ) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Plastic People Message-ID: <2831@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 01:17:21 EDT Article-I.D.: rabbit.2831 Posted: Mon Jun 4 01:17:21 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jun-84 06:41:08 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 46 People are plastic. No, really. Its generally true. "But Steve", I hear you cry, "what do you mean by plastic?". Good question. Plastic is in reference to a false fcade that just about all humans carry at one time in life, similar to a mask (perhaps latex is more appropriate, but is kills the alliteration). Its sad to say that of all the multitudes of people I've gotten to know in my lifetime, not one (including myself) has ever been completely honest. I've seen some very adverse examples of this. A certain circle of friends I was in several years back always seemed to be very close, as long as they were all together at one time, but the instant one member was absent the remaining members of the group cut that person to ribbons. When this started I always tried to do my very best to keep my mouth shut, since I saw this behavior as cruel and hypocritical. I grew tired of this clique and left it because these people, while all respectable in their own ways were not friends and I didn't want to asscoiate with them any more. Now before you all get on my case, I am fully aware that I'm no social pariah, I'm just sharing my observations. The thing that really bothers me is the pl I've known people who routinely put on a false smile to cover the fact that they just hated someones guts to an extreme. Why can't people be honest with each other? Simple: because if they were totally honest, chances are that everyone would be very pessimistic and self-centered. People in glass houses to an extreme. It is thus my conclusion that humans are and will be, by nature, plastic. Its sad when you think about it because there are many relationships based on plastic and not honesty, and we all know what happens to plastic when things get hot (boy what a mess!). It reminds me of a handshake I two people I know invented: Each person is in the act of stabbing the other in the back while simultaneously shaking hands with a big smile on his/her face. It has to be seen. So much for the plastic theory. "Life.. don't talk to me about life" -Marvin Steve Hawley !rabbit!sdh