Thursday, May 3

They are out there

Behold, the shrieking man:
You cannot reason with shrieking men. Every trembling fiber of their being needs them to be right and you to be wrong. They require a demon and you're it. Or your friend is it. Or some hard-working stranger. No one is safe when the shrieking starts.

Maybe the whole thing was a blip. Spring fever. Jock itch. Fear of a bad economy. A meaningless, freak occurrence, annoying but harmless. For a moment that lasted a week, everyone forgot their manners, everyone confused rudeness with "honesty," resentment with "integrity," nonspecific rage with "truth." In reality nothing happened and nothing changed. But after a run-in with a shrieking man, you never feel quite as safe as you did...
Zeldman nails it, once again. I truly don't feel quite as safe as I did.



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