A Depressive's Dictionary

Inspired by Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary. Like everything else, I shall doubtless fail to complete it.

Word	Use	Definition
Alpha	adj	the socially dominant among a group of animals, particularly mammals. Among humans, the ones who control politcal, economic or spiritual power are considered alphas. Humans have throughout recorded history, chosen males to be alphas; this is currently changing. It remains to be seen if females will be any improvement.
Anger	n	a natural response to reality. It should be noted that this response requires a fair amount of energy. A more efficient response is depression.
Conflict	n	the natural state of relations between humans. In situations of conflict each party attempts to achieve his or her personal goals at the expense of others.
Death	n	the permanent achievement of peace on an individual basis.
Hope	vb	word used to describe an illusory feeling that things will get better or improve somehow. Most often followed by despair or disappointment; on infrequent occasions followed by success. Invariably this will ultimately lead to a greater disappointment or despair.
Life	n	the temporary state of being between birth and death. During this period, the biological purpose of the organism is to maximize the number of similar, cooperative organisms and to minimize through competition and elimination the number of competing organisms.
Love	vb	an emotion generated biochemically in the brain; designed to create bonds of dependence between humans and thus promote survival of the species.
Omega	adj	in human society anyone other than an alpha. (see alpha).
Peace	n	word used to describe the periods when nations are either recovering from a previous conflict or preparing to fight a new conflict.
Work	vb	what you are expected to do in the period between adolescence and death. A few small numbers of humans are able to do this for their own benefit; this is unnatural. A more natural state of affairs is to perform for the benefit of the alphas of a given group (state, corporation or church being typical group examples. Dictator, despot, monarch, president, CEO, priest or minister being typical titles of alphas).