

"I'm going to kick his ass," the same bouncer says in the face of some drunken idiot. I try to swallow this information, but before I can another fight is forming out of the rich alcoholic ether. To add to this, after getting yelled at, I looked over and saw my ex-girlfriend staring at me. It was time to starting snorting speed and take up Jiu-Jitsu. Had to admit that I wasn't made to be a bouncer, or 2.

All that Sylvia Plath and green pea snaps had turned my arms into liquid jello. I just got yelled at for 10 minutes for not sequestering "the bitch."Īnd it's true - if I was in a school of ninjas, my ass-kicking ability would be called in to question. But I can tell he's trying to make me feel better. "We wait for fights to break out because we get bored of putting the black garbage bags in all day," one of the bouncers tells me, by the back door. Just like the doctor who is most capable of protecting us from disease is most capable of infecting us, or the teacher who gives us historical truths is also the most capable of telling us historical untruths, the bouncer who STOPS fights from happening is also, as I have learned, the most capable of starting them. The bouncer tears off his shirt and eggs the dude on. Her boyfriend tries to say that this behavior is inappropriate by the liasons of the establishment. Some other bouncer smashes her in the face. Aggression is defined by psychoanalysts as a manifestation of the will to have power over other people (Alfred Alder) or as a projection of the death impulse (Freud). The Webster's dictionary defines aggression as behavior that is characterized by a physical or verbal attack. But then, on occasion, all those slow moments make up for an entanglement, and that's what I get paid the big bucks for. Mostly I just sit in the back of the bar with my Sylvia Plath, eating pea snaps and playing pocket chess. (Side note: the drunk guy deserved to be "escorted" out, because he was stealing wine bottles and picking fights with his whacko blonde girlfriend). I thought about this as I watched Michael, my Leader and Bouncer Coach, going to beat up the drunk guy. The soldier who guards the fort well will also be good at raiding the enemy's camp." The doctor who is most capable of protecting us from disease is also the one who is most capable of infecting us. He says, "The boxer who is most skilled in offense will also be most skilled in defense. In Plato's Republic, Socrates explains to Polymarchus the paradox of justice, by examining who has it and why and what its intentions can do when placed in the right or wrong hands.
