The Tao of Trash-Bag Johnny.
Oct. 3rd, 2016 01:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreadedcandiru2Now, it looks as if I'd missed a key Foob Fact that explains why Elly and the kids don't get along very well but first, I'd like to remind you of the bludgeon she uses to enforce her off-kilter vision of perfection: John. The reason that he's such a handy weapon is owing to his not being very smart and not really spending much time asking why he's supposed to beat the crap out of Mike this time. This is where Foob Facts Twenty-Five:
Fact: Outside of a very narrow range of competence, John is an astonishingly stupid, ignorant and ill-informed man who's pretty much too stupid to understand how stupid he actually is.
, Twenty-Six
Fact: If things don't go exactly his way, John turns into a humorless rage-goblin who takes out his frustrations on his son because the alternative is getting over his damned self like someone without power.
and Twenty-Seven:
Fact: John is insanely jealous of the very little bit of authority he's been granted and views its potential loss as a crime against nature.
come into play. It's pretty much impossible to watch John interact with anyone for very long without seeing a maniac obsessed with the dread that he's supposed to bow down and surrender his power to others when 'everyone' knows that this, that and the other thing happen and if it happens to work to his benefit, he didn't make the rules. He just enforces them. The reason is, of course, due to Foob Fact Twenty-Eight:
Fact: John hasn't had an original idea in his sixty-seven years on the planet; the contents of his brain are self-serving folk wisdom and crap he gleaned together from sugar packets.
and Twenty-Nine:
Fact: John has never actually met any of the people in his life because he slots them into categories that serve his needs.
Since John is a narrow-minded dope who doesn't know what's going on and who the players are, it makes him the ideal goon. It makes him a terrible father by most people's terms but, well, not by Elly's.
Fact: Outside of a very narrow range of competence, John is an astonishingly stupid, ignorant and ill-informed man who's pretty much too stupid to understand how stupid he actually is.
, Twenty-Six
Fact: If things don't go exactly his way, John turns into a humorless rage-goblin who takes out his frustrations on his son because the alternative is getting over his damned self like someone without power.
and Twenty-Seven:
Fact: John is insanely jealous of the very little bit of authority he's been granted and views its potential loss as a crime against nature.
come into play. It's pretty much impossible to watch John interact with anyone for very long without seeing a maniac obsessed with the dread that he's supposed to bow down and surrender his power to others when 'everyone' knows that this, that and the other thing happen and if it happens to work to his benefit, he didn't make the rules. He just enforces them. The reason is, of course, due to Foob Fact Twenty-Eight:
Fact: John hasn't had an original idea in his sixty-seven years on the planet; the contents of his brain are self-serving folk wisdom and crap he gleaned together from sugar packets.
and Twenty-Nine:
Fact: John has never actually met any of the people in his life because he slots them into categories that serve his needs.
Since John is a narrow-minded dope who doesn't know what's going on and who the players are, it makes him the ideal goon. It makes him a terrible father by most people's terms but, well, not by Elly's.
