The sibling revilery axioms

Of course, it’s not just Mike’s belief that television is ‘real’ that makes him an insufferable jerk. We also have to deal with the fact that his stupid need for the worthless approval of his idiot parents and default negativity caused him to be a willing participant in his parents’ campaign to drive a wedge between him and Lizzie. Neither of them can see it but
Axiom 3e:
John and Elly don’t actually want their kids to get along for fear that they’ll gang up and destroy their parents.
holds true and always will. The Olds may say that they want peace but they don’t mean it because they have the stupid fear that peace between the kids means ganging up and overthrowing their parents….by which they mean “forcing two idiot yuppies to face the reality that they’re not nice people and they’re not victims and making amends for that.”
The reason Mike is at pains to obey Mom and Dad and hate his sister is that he’s not very good at understanding why people do what they do. It leaves me shaking my head in bemusement that someone that poor at answering the question “What does this person want” is pretending he’s an authory but there he is, thinking his horrible kid sister is trying to be unfair to him and cheating to get the attention she’s supposed to concede all to him because he is older and he can do things and she’s weak and stupid and has the wrong parts and, no, people are all wrong when they say he’d hate a kid brother just as much because that means that he’s not a victim either but instead a selfish little creep who needs his fucking teeth punched in. This is owing to
Axiom 4g:
Mike doesn’t like the idea of being to blame for things because that’s a humiliation.
being the case.
What makes Lizzie act the way she does is somewhat different. Unlike Elly who envies or John who’s sick with pride or Mike and his slothful ways, Lizardbreath shirks from responsibility for her own reason: she lacks anything like a sense of morals. To her, what makes her feel happy is good and what doesn’t is bad. We can codify it thusly:
Axiom 5a:
Elizabeth loves unearned attention and hates to have to do things for it because she actually did like being a parasite who gets love for nothing.