Rules Of The Game #17: Punks and Cats

[koganbot]

This week's column is something of a repeat of last week's, elaborating on both the functionality and dysfunctionality of sticking with our own (with our own people and their ideas). So, any thoughts about how to overcome the dysfunctionality, given that social clustering is necessary and inevitable?

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[koganbot]

Another reason I abandoned the book was that I had some very unresolved issues with my parents that the book was acting out and trying - not successfully - to deal with. Also, I was realizing I was maybe too immature (at the not-so-young age of 32!) to pull off a book. Rereading some of that first chapter was an ordeal.

The book opened with a couple of incidents that I simply wasn't ready to write about. A kindergarten teacher - a genuinely bad-tempered woman - had criticized me to my mother, which mortified me, my mother told my pediatrician, and both the pediatrician and my mother agreed that the teacher was at fault and had it in for me, and the result was that I was put on tranquilizers. The second incident was my terrorizing some kid in kindergarten. But of course the two incidents were actually the same one seen from two different perspectives. (The terrorization incident did have an interesting outgrowth, which is that several months later I actually taught the kid how to be less vulnerable to terror, how not to panic when kids were calling him names.)