# quietly vainglorious bubble headed friendaholics as positively 4th street by bob dylan plays in the lab background when actual humanity and kindness might just be a step too far for some slick charm and poreless social cordiality do not automatically mean good or caring assumptions that if someone's ridicuously charming or overly nice off the bat then they can be immediately trusted as merely that a bunch of dubious assumptions none of your plastic friends could be trusted with a spare ham sandwich superficial and unhappy flesh robots running on fully automatic-empty watch them dance ir unhappy damp paper doll lives away since when has unceasingly treating total strangers like instant lifelong friends been the new norm we didn't get that particular lab in box update perhaps it's in spam maybe the real stranger is the pseudo introverted pathologically social narcissist hiding inside in plain unacknowledged sight yet behind all the smoke and social mirrors one will eventually find ir selves faced with immense dissatisfaction and danger the dissatisfaction of realising one only chooses 'friends' as superficial and vain as oneself cruel dim smiles multiple language skills fancy academic titles pleasant holidays big future plans and quiet preening elf importance on unceasing tap it's all a damp insubstantial cardboard sham white teeth starched brains multiple university degrees and multiple positive branching life opportunities so many nice new things to do each nice bright day such a firm grasp of one's own miniature elf contained lifestyle and the perfected fragments stored therein oh to taste the designer perfumed sweat of such listless digital inattention and quench eternally fruitless suburban desire no; wake up scientist and don't be a schmuck such jinzos neither know nor care for any existence outside ir own all ir 2d friends are mere duckheads who laughably imagine they're remotely cool but are simply soulless automatons an unceasing global trance party of blanched paper thin lives the socially media anointed with high disposable incomes and casual smirking cruelties cold kasual and elf involved these chumps wouldn't pause to urinate on one's scientific skull if it were on fire and while the constant need for admiration seeking excessive admiration feelings of grandiosity and interpersonal competitiveness are often linked to deeply unhealthy emotional histories the near total lack of self knowledge regarding one's resulting exhibitionist tendency to be the centre of attention the belief one is superior than others and the overall vile sense of entitlement sure is a quietly disgusting site to witness a near total intolerance toward any feeling of uncertainty that one *isn't* the center of the universe is honestly pathetic indeed such general strutting sanitised approximations make one faintly puke with sad distaste // republic of bob