A minor Sisyphus

There’s nothing more laughable than your opinions, I was told. How do you expect them to be taken seriously when they change every day, when you defend contradictions from one conversation to the next? You’re like Tantalus reaching for the fruit and bending down to drink. The facts elude you. Do you even know who Tantalus was? Tantalus the hubristic mortal who envied the gods so much he tried to trick them into being like him; the minor Sisyphus who’s had no great books written about him; who states his irrefutable opinions in the office and gets nowhere; who pisses on the ladies’ toilet seat and gets told off. Even if your opinions were consistent you’d still be ridiculous since you’d know in your heart it was an act. And if it weren’t an act and you really felt consistent, you’d be the most ridiculous mortal of us all.