Nearly everyone without exception has heard the expression that "man is a social animal." Given inherent faculties for language and expression, it would seem as if such a statement is indeed a truism, especially given the evidence of everyday life.
However, this social nature can be seen to be based in mainstream attitudes of affability which rely on quantitatively mechanical responses and can furthermore be shown to actually strangle discourse, expression, creativity, and intellect. Locutions that are representative of friendliness and ease remain as accepted and sanctioned currency in the social milieu, while relying on a poverty of meaning that maintains social functioning.
A casualty of this process is the socially awkward character, who becomes a much maligned and shunned figure, given his or her propensity for unwarranted interruptions, unacceptable sentiments, or dramatically awkward silences. Rarely invited to parties or social outings, these people may become loners who are given to a life of social frustration.
It is our hopes that in the creation of the Buena Vista Socially Awkward Club, that marginalized social figures may find an ease of expression or non-expression among a gathering of like types who beyond acting in concert as sympathetic participants, are free to actively foist their awkwardness en mass and through organized venue on the droves of socially accepted persons.
Promises and Plans of the Buena Vista Socially Awkward Club
--We will creep you out with painful silence and smile in your attempts to speak without feeling awkward yourself.
--We will blurt strange malignancies and unsolicited sentiments with a fecundity that makes normalcy appear as a plague
--We will unite our kind in revelry of the undiscovered grandeur of social awkwardness
--As our movement grows, we will coordinate actions against normal gatherings and parties with the explicit purpose of making the socially acclimated feel invariably awkward and insecure among our ranks
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