Knicq

Simple point(s).
knicq posted in Jalali Baba on April 17th, 2007

Here’s the thing about headaches. They hurt. That is the one thing about them headaches I am not partiularly crazy about. That is saying a lot, since Saab will tell you, I am crazy about everything, and most people I am blessed with; about some others I am crazier, but then they are worth being crazier about. It is all besides the point of course, since it is my recurring headaches I intend making a point about, and the point is simple: They hurt, and that is the one thing about them I am not crazy about. The latter part of the former statement must sound like a point in itself, and it is one too, but it is not the simple point I intend making. The simple point I do intend making is about the hurtful nature of headaches, and everything else, whether or not it qualifies to be a point in itself, is but an extension of the simple point.

Here’s the thing about simple points though. They are simple - too simple, and hence it is very difficult for your average 40 watt blogger to build a meaningful post around a single simple point. Multiple simple points are a lucrative prospect but also carry the risk of complexity; and when you get simplicity mixed up with complexity all you get is an ideal JB post, since it is JB who finds simplicity in complexity and complexity in simplicity. What, one might be excused for wondering, is wrong in a post becoming an ideal JB post? One is a fool. Anything which even borders on an ideal JB anything is ambitious, unreal, hypothetical, and hence qualifies to be classified as nothing. Now, the thing about Jalali Baba is here - he has exacting standards, much too exacting to be practical and real. Only nothing can come close to be anything remotely like something that would meet Jalali Baba’s definition of ideal.

Ironically, Jalali Baba fails his own standards - in his choice of disciples and friends for one thing; which is a pity becuase it means Jalali Baba is more than just nothing. Given as intelligent as he is, it is quite likely though that he chooses bad people for friends - or at least one bad person for a friend - just so he qualifies to be more than nothing. I feel exploited!

People should refrain from choosing me as a friend just because I qualify to be a bad choice, and making that bad choice helps them qualify to be more than nothing because making a bad choice means they are not JB-ideal, and only nothing is JB-ideal.

Oh, and yes - my head hurts!