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Ron Swanson Manifesto
As surely as the earth spins on its axis and ushers in the change of seasons from one year to the next, us inconsequential humans have the same fate. The unstoppable movement leads us to our own seasons of change. Unlike the trajectory of the elements, doomed to repeat the same seasons over and over, humans have the mixture of personality, desire, goals, rational thought, emotions and experience to guide us through our own ever evolving changes.
With over 30 years of experiences, in every changing mind and society, I have had the luxury of witnessing many patterns in my life as well as the wisdom to apply what that means. What I’ve learned, is that I am a bundle of extremes that oftentimes conflict with each other. I share and communicate freely but am guarded to an extreme on subjects I believe warrant it, I can be extremely empathetic and loving, or extremely cold and detached. I talk too much, and almost pathologically need to have the last word as well as an incessant need to crack jokes. To put it simply, I am equal parts an effusively kind person and massive piece of shit.
To this end, I’m like most people, a hard to define, unable to put your finger on, and impossible to figure out Hodge podge of conflicting thoughts and emotions that can be defined by the situation, person, or experience of the moment. Leaving the rest of the people populating the earth. The quiet, reserved, shy, and balanced. The people that I’ve always envied. As someone who has teetered between extremes, and always been too much, I’ve always marveled at people with these characteristics.
That’s why it fills me with a joy to know that age (and the experience & wisdom of learning when and how to bite one’s tongue), as well as the lessons in the class, have bought me to a place where I can fully exert all these experiences to fully operate as a different kind of person. OK, fine…I can at least communicate like one. The goal to hit, the standards to achieve? That lays in the champion of such architypes, the mythical and great RON SWANSON.
If you are unaware of who this legend is, fear not, for I will explain. You will understand exactly who Ron Swanson is, the characteristics I wish to live like going forward. As well as the tools this class has handed me. Tools that will guarantee I will at the very least, communicate like Ron Swanson.
Ronald Ulysses Swanson, or Ron Fucking Swanson as he likes to call himself, is the director of the Parks and Recreation Department in the town of Pawnee Indiana. He is a distant, staunch libertarian, or a strong proponent of small government. An extremely deadpan and stereotypical masculine personality who despises working with the public. He loves meat, woodworking, hunting, whiskey, breakfast food, and women. He despises both of his ex-wives both named Tammy, and aptly named Tammy 1 and Tammy 2. Growing up on a farm he maintains an incredibly private lifestyle and a love of physical labor. He very seldom expresses any emotion, unless the subject is about things he loves; like riddles and meat. He’s an outdoor...
With over 30 years of experiences, in every changing mind and society, I have had the luxury of witnessing many patterns in my life as well as the wisdom to apply what that means. What I’ve learned, is that I am a bundle of extremes that oftentimes conflict with each other. I share and communicate freely but am guarded to an extreme on subjects I believe warrant it, I can be extremely empathetic and loving, or extremely cold and detached. I talk too much, and almost pathologically need to have the last word as well as an incessant need to crack jokes. To put it simply, I am equal parts an effusively kind person and massive piece of shit.
To this end, I’m like most people, a hard to define, unable to put your finger on, and impossible to figure out Hodge podge of conflicting thoughts and emotions that can be defined by the situation, person, or experience of the moment. Leaving the rest of the people populating the earth. The quiet, reserved, shy, and balanced. The people that I’ve always envied. As someone who has teetered between extremes, and always been too much, I’ve always marveled at people with these characteristics.
That’s why it fills me with a joy to know that age (and the experience & wisdom of learning when and how to bite one’s tongue), as well as the lessons in the class, have bought me to a place where I can fully exert all these experiences to fully operate as a different kind of person. OK, fine…I can at least communicate like one. The goal to hit, the standards to achieve? That lays in the champion of such architypes, the mythical and great RON SWANSON.
If you are unaware of who this legend is, fear not, for I will explain. You will understand exactly who Ron Swanson is, the characteristics I wish to live like going forward. As well as the tools this class has handed me. Tools that will guarantee I will at the very least, communicate like Ron Swanson.
Ronald Ulysses Swanson, or Ron Fucking Swanson as he likes to call himself, is the director of the Parks and Recreation Department in the town of Pawnee Indiana. He is a distant, staunch libertarian, or a strong proponent of small government. An extremely deadpan and stereotypical masculine personality who despises working with the public. He loves meat, woodworking, hunting, whiskey, breakfast food, and women. He despises both of his ex-wives both named Tammy, and aptly named Tammy 1 and Tammy 2. Growing up on a farm he maintains an incredibly private lifestyle and a love of physical labor. He very seldom expresses any emotion, unless the subject is about things he loves; like riddles and meat. He’s an outdoor...
