The Slogans

Slogan:  A catchword or rallying motto distinctly associated with a political party or other group.


I remember snorting derisively when I came into The Rooms and saw the slogans plastered all over  the walls.  Live and Let Live.  Let Go and Let God.  Easy Does It.  Keep It Simple.  I couldn't believe that the solution to my incredibly complex problems were going to be addressed by those infantile expressions.  I needed the Senior Thesis level slogans to solve my problems and no one would tell me where those were kept.  Little did I know, which would make a great slogan, by the way.  "Little Do You Know."  That one would have really pissed me off.  I was not impressed with what I was seeing.


Here's another slogan I think would work well: "No One Is Thinking About You."  I'm convinced that everyone is thinking about me all the time when the fact of the matter is no one is thinking about me at all.  This is another example of extreme will run riot: I never think about anyone but myself yet I think everyone is thinking about me.  The ego.  It's embarrassing to admit it, and this from a guy who's entire life is an embarrassment.


I could have a whole room wallpapered with similar slogans and still not get it.  "They're Not Thinking About You."  "They're Never Thinking About You."  "No One Is Ever Thinking About You, Ever!"  And so on and so one.  It would be like the scene from "The Shining" when Jack Nicholson's character finishes up his book after many weeks of writing and his wife finds that the whole text says: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."  His wife saw he was nuts but he couldn't see it in himself.


All Stevie Seaweed All the Time.  That would be a great slogan, too.


I send out my writing to a few friends and it always surprises me how often someone will ask: "Were you thinking about me when you wrote that?"  Sometimes more than one person will say that about the same entry.  I say: "Yes!  Yes, I was!" when the truth of the matter is that I'm never thinking about anyone except myself.  


Frankly, I don't see the point.