Be Better or Get Fucked

 Oh, there's so many monsters in the world.

 I wish they were just ogres or perytons or any of the panoply of beasties I know from games. But they're not. There are so many loathsome brutes who are just plain humans with a bit more money or power or influence or stupidity than the rest of us.

So a good new motto for them all is "be better or get fucked." In everyday life, shitheads will attempt to make you feel small or bad or useless, and they can get better or fall of a cliff someplace lonely. Everyone needs to be better, me and you and that guy on the bus and that person walking their dog and saints and members of the Trump family and even your family dog. (not actually your family dog, who is a good boi and needs do nothing. But otherwise my point stands.)

I know there's all sorts of ways we each fail to be better. We do things we wish we didn't have to because CAPITALISM or we are just tired or mental states/conditions preclude other actions. We let ourselves down, we let others down, we pick the bad choice. We're all fuck ups now and again. That's different. There's failing, and there's deciding to fail. Deciding that failure to be better is the win-state. So if you're someone who feels like a fuck up but you're trying to be better, I'm not talking to you.

If on the other hand you're regularly making choices that make other, humble people's lives worse: get fucked. Fall into a pit. Lose your sense of taste before your big dinner. Stub your toes on every corner for all time. Die in a way that's painful and embarrassing to you and all your cohorts, even, because that would make the world a better place, and the rest of us would get a laugh.

Be better, or get fucked