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Why dick's Are Successful And Dick's Ain't

Posted August 17th, 2008 at 2:37 pm in Dick or dick

After reading Cannery Row (for the 3rd or 4th time) by John Steinbeck I ran across a great paragraph that could serve as a complete definition of a dick. It occurs about half-way through the story where Doc, one of the main characters, speaking to Richard Frost has to say about men. "It has always seemed strange to me the things that we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding, and feeling are the companions to failure in our society. And those traits that we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism, and self-interest, are the traits of success."

After reading that you gotta ask yourself, why do we do it?, perpetuate the dicks of the world. Is it because a dick has to be hard to get a head, ahh, I mean, ahead? Are dicks actually respected by other non-dicks for being a dick? Or is it just one big dick network where dicks stick together, like lawyers & doctors? Do we really need people who are sharp, greedy, acquisitive, mean, egotistical, selfish and only interested in themselves? If the answer is yes, as the evidence suggests, that's a sad commentary on our society. But as a lot of folks have experienced working for the man, you know, that boss that didn't know his a** from 3rd base, the guy that sucked up to his boss so bad it was sickening, who himself was a moron (son of the owner, maybe). Just who are the guys that get ahead with these kind character flaws? Why, dicks, that's who.