The True Enemy Unmasked
I’m at war with a specific kind of person - not one individual or a few in particular, but a category. There are plenty of terms for them: Sociopath, Narcissist, Anti-social, Manipulator, Schemer, Two-faced, Heathen - the list goes on. Yet if you drill down into the nature of these labels, you’ll find a few common root flaws. Chief among them are a sharp negligence for personal responsibility and a grotesque disdain for other human beings. Taking those two flaws into account, I use a simple term for the person I’m describing: THE COWARD. An old-fashioned word, rarely used in modern parlance. But who - or what - is a coward? Let me lay out a few of their traits: The coward lies his way out of everything. The coward shifts blame and wriggles out of responsibility. The coward makes passive-aggressive remarks to appear superior in conversation. The coward mocks the opposite sex. The coward insults those doing better than him behind their backs while feigning friendliness to their faces. Th...
