When I was in high school, I wrote a short story called “World Full of A**holes.”
Instead of castigating me, Gene Friedman encouraged me to expand upon the theme (evidently he concurred with my observations) and develop my story.
Alas I didn’t have the literary skill necessary to give it the treatment it needed. But I firmly believe that our world is chock full of a**holes, and you can find them everywhere, a virtually limitless array of greedy, selfish, short-sighted, pencil-dicked little a**holes who, through their ignorance and stupidity, cut their own insignificant little throats on an ever-growing and tragically comical scale…