Ineffable Ontological Detanglement .: Introspective Assistance & Mental Analysis Manual
The perma-smirk is what happens to you when you're making the constant trip from self loathing to self love. Those of us with a baseline self love do not develop the perma-smirk, because nothing about this feeling is overly exciting it's just comfortable. They often develop philosophies relating to the glory of their own perma-smirk, you can all clearly see I'm very self confident I'm just swimming in self confidence, I'm so much better than all of you it's just my sly slick comfortable baseline.
I used to kind of like Bill Maher, even after discovering the nature of the perma-smirk. I thought, well, this asshole is on the right team, he's pretty funny. I don't mind if some of the soldiers for enlightenment are suck people I can still find ways to enjoy them, respect aspects of them. After he destroyed himself I looked at what he had become in the past few years that I had not been watching, and, ah, whatever okay destroy yourself. Meet what you desire upon Trump and destroy yourself, so sayeth God. Turns out Aria Wellington was always right about Maher. I mean it's not like I ever once thought she was wrong, I just thought I don't really care about these things. I still don't really care about these things, but, yeah okay fine Aria Wellington can eat your suffering she's in the right.