SUMMER WITH THE SLUG RATS
Meaning Makers Mistake It
“Watcha working on?” Brat Boy asked.
“Another book voiced by the reader’s addiction,” I said. “It’s
twisting slogans. The title of each chapter will be the slogan, with a subtitle
about how it’s twisted.” I handed him a list of AA slogans.
Brat Boy laughed, and read, “’Easy Does It.’”
“The subtitle is: ‘Getting
Through Life Making Minimal Effort’,” I answered. “Can be used to make laziness
seem like some sort of wise oneness with the universe.”
“’Think, think, think,’” Brat Boy read.
“’Instead of Do, Do, Doing’,” I said. “People endlessly
think about the problem, and themselves, without changing anything.”
“’Do The Next Right Thing’.”
“’And Expect Instant Results’” I answered. “This is how
people create resentments that sabotage their happiness.”
“Wow, do people really get the slogans so wrong?”
“All the time,” I said. “It’s human nature to twist what we
hear into what we want to hear.”
Today I will find out what sayings and slogans really mean.
Summer with the Slug
Rats © 2020 by Ken Montrose
Summer with the Slug
Rats is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone
you might know is purely coincidental.
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