[This bio is compiled from various negative reviews of Asher]
- I don’t like Asher very much.
- For one thing, he’s unpatriotic. He thinks we live in an aggressor nation that kills innocent people or something. He seems to like other countries better than ours. He’s always talking about someplace else, when he’s not knocking this country.
- He doesn’t accept authority. He acts like he doesn’t have to answer to anyone. One of these days, someone’s going to shut him down.
- He’s judgemental. Everyone has to earn his respect. He has no respect for the average person. He thinks he’s smarter or better than most people. I once asked Asher if he thought he was better than other people, and he said, “Better at what?”
- He thinks very highly of himself, like he’s special. He acts like he’s above most people. He’s so aloof.
- He thinks that knowing a lot of words and facts is very important. He never stops thinking, he’s always reading some book, and he always has something to say.
- He doesn’t concern himself with the results of his ideas before deciding to accept them.
- He doesn’t weigh the consensus of others against his own opinion before deciding what to believe. He’s opinionated. He almost never agrees with anything other people think, say, or believe. He has to be different.
- He constantly wounds people’s pride, almost automatically, without trying. He’d be the first to be tossed out of an overcrowded lifeboat. I told him that once, and he said, “The fact that anyone would be tossed, makes me the necessary as well as logical choice.”
- He’s into all kinds of weird, extreme, alternative things. If it’s unusual, he has to know about it or be involved in it.
- He has all kinds of unusual theories about how the world works, what people do, and so on. He’s always reading some book about it.
- He thinks he’s some kind of artist. I don’t understand his writing. He can’t just have a normal job, and that’s probably why he has to write.
- Probably nobody should like him, but he has weird friends who he’s fooled into actually liking him for all of these things.
- What a woman could see in him makes no sense. You’d think no woman would ever want him, but he either fools women into liking him or they’re weirdos, too.
