Lobbed From The Cheap Seats

Why does the 'cheap shot' have such a bad reputation? And not just a swift kick to the who-ha's when the other isn't looking - a person can put forward a complex argument, full of insight and subtlety, and another can shoot it down with one crass sentence. Then we get offended. Like there has been an unforgivable breach of unwritten morals. 'They' strike again, tell us from behind their gray masks what we should and should not do.

Do we even know why our under the belt blows are so unacceptable? Morals behave like our gods - willing to strike us if we don't make the correct sacrifice - but aren't Homer's tales just required high school reading? No - if 'they' give us morals, then we will eventually always find holes within.

We look, again and again, at the exact same statue, covered in mystic robes, and approach to try to catch a glimpse of what is hidden underneath. And what we see has been seen before, again and again, from slightly different angles. And what more will we ever see except a corner? And what more will we ever understand except a sliver? And what will we ever live by except that which we have truly forgotten?

Our cheap shots are ours, and ours alone - lobbed from the cheap seats of our perspective, taken by those who hold too closely to theirs.