Of all the places you've never been, Facebook is the one that
makes the most sense for you to inhabit.
Please, master, tickle me with
electricity if this mere mortal's musings muss up my master's
moratorium on meaningful deviations from tradition, but might I suggest a
chapter in the New-New Testament on the subject of philosophy? I've
heard that the concept of rational thought is so highly prized in
Heaven, even, that only the most exquisite heavenly alcohols are derived
from its distilled essence - and that it is so rare and valuable that
nearly none of your flock will ever taste it in either their now- or
after-lives.
"What
we're going to have to do is combine selective actions by our military
to make sure that we're going after terrorists who COULD harm our
personnel overseas or EVENTUALLY hit the homeland..."
- Your grateful dictator, Obama.
Isn't it reassuring to know that our military regime will stop at
nothing to kill anybody, anywhere in the world, who COULD, EVENTUALLY,
threaten American security? - Don't
worry, though! I'm sure that if this completely unregulated abuse of
power were being directed at American citizens, somebody would know
about it by now...
Anyone out there still in denial about
what's in store for us over the next few decades? Please speak up if so,
and I'll happily point out the fucking obvious again in whatever way
works for you.
"Criticism
may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same
function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy
state of things."
I
just realized something truly horrible: the up-and-coming generations
have no idea who Phil Collins is! Also, in other news, they're fucking
morons.
A girl in the drive-through at BK tonight asked me how
I'm doing, and I replied with my usual, "Oh, you know - just 'another
day in paradise'," and she smiled and said cheerfully, "mmhmm!"
So, naturally, I reached through the window and strangled
her once she'd handed me my fries. Or maybe I just really, really
wanted to... I'm not really sure - my memory gets fuzzy sometimes where
the best gratuitous violence is concerned.
Anyway, the point
is: the ability to comprehend irony is being bred out of our youth. They
are losing their instinctual senses of humor - and of justice, and
intellectual propriety. They are being trained, fresh out of the womb,
to be oblivious to the absurdities of our daily lives... and, as those
lives and behaviors become more and more ridiculous, this new general
populace simply becomes more and more complacent.
Is it any
wonder that we have actually devolved to the point, now, where we as a
nation take—and, worse, flaunt—PRIDE in programming our youngest and
most vulnerable members of society - then sending them overseas to kill
for our economic interests? If they can't think effectively anymore, I
suppose it makes sense; soon, mindless errands will be the the only
things they're good for at all.
Thank god we have the public
education system to teach them to think freely, objectively, and for
themselves. Thankfully, parents are fulfilling their BASIC obligations
to their biological imperatives - ensuring—at all costs!—that their
children are NOT being overtly conditioned to think less, ask fewer
questions, be more selfish, or ignore reality whenever convenient.
Hah, can you just IMAGINE what our world would turn into if that weren't the case!?
Phew. I don't even want to think about it.
It makes me really glad that history has proven that, as worse
graduates to worst, we can still all just sit back, relax, "be
ourselves" and trust that it'll all work itself out in our best
interests - no worries, man.
Nobody
can claim ignorance any longer, thanks to this Information Age. So,
since you now know what our military actually does these days ('cause
you wouldn't just ignore a terrible truth if you could access it in 3-4
minutes, right?) - what would YOU do if you get drafted for the next
invasion? (My answer: it involves a shootout... assuming we're still
allowed to own guns then).
Here's another good one: what will YOU do when martial law comes to your state? (My answer: see above).
I should probably close with something lighter, so here's a funny joke:
So, habeas corpus walks into a government-run bar, right? And never walks out.
As
human civilization continues to circle the drain in its decrepit dingy
of denial, I find myself failing to muster enough energy even to laugh
anymore as everyone aboard screams "Yayyyyy - faster!"
— "Thank god there's no age limit for THIS ride," the younger ones say excitedly;
— "I'm so happy we worked hard so we can afford this for our children," the older ones say proudly;
"Well, looks like we can still get away with charging more from the
next generation," say the puppet masters knowingly from inside their
nearby submarine...
Come
to the New World > slaughter the indigenous population >
colonize their lands > move the few surviving tribes to reservations
> where they sell us fireworks that we use to celebrate > our
"national birthday"...
Illusion
is needed to disguise the emptiness within. We pay for perpetual
ignorance with our finite souls and call the transaction "living" - and
right up until the very end, we still somehow believe that we've been
profiting the entire time.
Wake up! Life and intellectual death are mutually exclusive.
ATTENTION,
SELF-RIGHTEOUS "FEMINISTS:" the *intended* meaning of this word that
you megalomaniacal ignoramuses use to describe yourselves actually
belongs to a completely different and, in fact, OPPOSITE word:
"egalitarianist."
"Feminism," to the *utter* contrary, is—by
both definition and real-world effect—the fascist promotion of women's
interests to the EXCLUSION of all others. In other words, "feminism" is one of several literal OPPOSITES to the concept of "equality."
In other words, you're all fucking-backwards! Every time you use the word
"feminism," it's an embarrassment to intelligent women everywhere.
Unfortunately, that's not really a big deal; the vast majority of the
human population is currently perpetuating similar oblivious stupidity
via one or another misinterpreted "cause" without realizing it.
Here's the real problem, then: by failing to realize that you're
improperly using language belonging to a cause to which you're
completely oblivious, you are inadvertently—but highly
effectively—advocating for the opposite of what you claim to believe in;
i.e. you're perpetuating the problem you think you're fighting against.
GG! Just as with all other things, please either use your brain or kill yourselves.
I hate when people misrepresent science for
the purpose of entertainment. Scientists deal with evidence, not proof.
Anyone who can't tell the difference has no legitimate claim to an
opinion on anything.
WHY AREN'T CHILDREN TAUGHT HOW TO THINK
*PROPERLY*? WHY!? Oh... school is a federal program, and we wouldn't
have or need federal anything if people used their brains... so in order
for us to receive *some* education, we can't risk a functional level
*of* education. Seems like a perfect system to me.
Begin educational sprint here (don't worry - it's still legal... for now):
Rational idealism should not be confined to fiction.
"The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret
motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to
the effecting of all things possible."
I'm
confused... why exactly are humans trying to create an artificial
intelligence capable of passing the Turing test - using silicon? Do
these morons not realize that if they just reproduce, they'll
automatically achieve their goal?
Oh, RIIIIIGHT! I almost forgot!
—Hubris.
People who are incapable of comprehending the ramifications of certain scientific realities probably shouldn't be pushing
the boundaries of such realizations in the first place. There's room
for only a finite amount of curiosity in our matrix. It's not like we're
short on denial, either - at some point we're gonna run out of excuses
to deceive ourselves with... and what then? Our heads explode?
I can't understand why we still use the phrase, "It's not rocket science!"
Rocket science isn't complicated!
If we as humans exercised even a smidgen of educational due diligence
(or a modicum of intelligence, or *GASP*—both!), rocket science would be
unremarkable fare for the sixth-grade level or so - maybe a week-long
lesson thrown in with the natural sciences as a "fun hands-on" example
of simple, real-world applications of the curriculum.
I'm officially upgrading this outdated drivel. I don't care if Webster
doesn't know or care, because Webster can stuff its "New World" up its
annoying little etymologically-unfaithful ass. Webster's a trendy
fucking pussy - and so are you if you let anyone or anything determine
the century your brain lives in.
Anyway, things have changed
since the 1800s. (Of course, the Chinese already had a firm grasp on
rocket science by the 13th century A.D., but why humiliate "modern
civilization" any more than it already implicitly humiliates itself?
Besides, everyone's fuckin' oblivious to everything these days).
The new equivalent phrase is:
"It's not extrapolatory multiversal quantum mechanics!"
That should last us a good couple of decades or so... but somebody else
is going to need to nut the fuck up and upgrade this bullshit again,
once artificial wormhole technology is perfected.
Don't know, don't care; Don't care that we don't know, don't want anyone to know that we don't care; Been everywhere, done everything - learned absolutely fuckin' nothing; A life full of stuff just might fill the void where intellect should have been, somehow; Reality is just a theory and shouldn't be taught anywhere; We're basically potatoes, give or take a few millivolts; Literally dumber than the simplest machines we make;"
And, last but—in my humble opinion—best...
"Humanity: Because it takes more energy to let ourselves die than to
allow our momentum to perpetuate this awful, truly upsetting existence -
and we're so lazy we can't even give a single fuck anymore, even about
ourselves."
Yeah! That's the one. It's got a nice, truthful ring to it.
All of the federal changes to U.S. social systems over the past seven decades (in particular) have effectively implemented a vast, multi-redundant contingency against any armed uprising by the citizenry. At the point when our armed forces started blindly following orders ("Not my need-to-know / not my problem," all the way up the chain of command) and no longer required voters to approve military action, that was the last nail in the coffin.
Fortunately, most of the populace is kept thoroughly distracted, either too busy or too ignorant to be concerned with exercising more than just the most very basic freedoms - which the government is more than happy to support. If we were to ever decide to demand more, though...
It's almost like we've forgotten that the sole, *literal* function of any government is to control a population of people - at all other costs.
I actually just watched a movie about this very idea - "Enemy." (Link: http://played.to/embed-sued3m634bab-640x360.html) Worth a watch just for the "oh shit" feeling of utter confusion you get at the end - a perfect analogy of modern life: "Do I study this mystery so I can comprehend it? Or do I move along, knowing I've missed the point - but assuming it's not important?" Government is what it is now because vast populations have a pattern of choosing the latter 99 times out of 100... and will continue to do so, until the choice no longer exists.
Nietzsche was the man who wrote, "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."
I've learned the same is true of comprehension; one becomes what one does, thinks, interacts with. This is neither insignificant nor irrelevant to anything.
There is a threshold of recondite but primordial knowledge, shortly beyond which the sum of a human mind must eventually correlate less to existing conventions of human existence than to anything else at all. Approaching the boundary of that event horizon reveals a choice: either to continue into the isolating vacuum of infinite awareness, or to succumb to the finite but massive gravity of familiar faces, ideas and behaviors; regardless of the selection, all of the preexisting momentum of one's entire life is consumed at that moment of choice, poured into that direction for better or—most commonly—for worse.
Look around. Clearly, nearly every one favors a single (poor) choice. After that event, nearly no one will ever again muster the fortitude or conviction to reverse the decision - even if they realize the mistake. The cost of re-making oneself is simply too great, and only ever increases between any two points in time.
Why do we not teach our children that our present notion of humanity is merely the first of a series of stages of growth — that the entirety of our civilization, even at its greatest imaginable height, is merely a humble bassinet, and that we only belong in it until our minds can walk beyond it on their own?
If we were shown the truth from the onset of our journeys to self-awareness, or even so much as given a hint as to its eventual manifestation, the result of our physical maturation might not culminate in a mere misconception of having achieved actual growth. Really, we have only "grown" into a species of singular cowards, perpetually afraid to leave our nests for fear of the intellectual wings we all possess - the span of which dwarfs even our most generous imaginings of our present state of being.
We are terrified by the scope of comprehension we know our evolution will open to us - and in doing so—as a consequence of our nature to become that which we experience—thrust upon us. As the epiphany of our ultimate potential strikes us, one by one we cower in fear before the responsibility it will inevitably demand as its toll. Those who look to others for guidance in this moment of trepidation seem to meet only the gazes of the unaware or, worst of all, the contrary - those who have already reached and grasped nothing in the very same endeavor. We see the fickle effigies to humanity they have allowed themselves to become... but, in a certain light—a misnomer if ever there was one—don't they nevertheless seem "happy?" Somehow, we convince ourselves so.
We might transcend the meager and unremarkable realities of our present circumstances, but instead we choose never to leap at all... and that is the example we then set for the rest who come after us. They are not "us," yet - but we have blazed the path for them: a slow spiral, originating at birth and culminating in a closed loop at its farthest expanse, with a total circumference just longer than the longest human lifespan. Worse still, if they do not follow—if we do not push them to follow—then we cannot project their choice onto ourselves, in which case the impossible rationalizations we depend upon for our fragile illusions of meaningful achievement would collapse. To prevent this, then, we create vast social mechanisms to obscure each moment of our lives from the ones before it, weaving a delusory web of opacity into every aspect of our existence - made of only the air we breathe... and yet we allow ourselves to breathe it.
Such a collapse is long past due. Such perfect irony is a criminal application of such creative genius as we are all—clearly—capable of.
We are wasting ourselves in the worst possible way.
We are the reality we create. Until more than a mere handful of individuals will otherwise, we children of the universe will
continue to be known to our destinies not by the names it has reserved
for us - but by the limiting designation we elect for ourselves as a
civilization, and which we reinforce in every moment of our complacency:
"afraid."
Transcend. It's a choice - and, like all other choices, it can't make itself.
I feel the things you feel,
I do the things you do,
And I feel like I'm falling
In to you;
And I feel what you feel,
As I do what you do,
And I wish you could be me
Truly knowing you.
Memorial Day is the one day of the year when we are supposed to reflect on the price of liberty and freedom: the lives of soldiers who were killed as they strove to occupy foreign lands to which they weren't invited and in which they never have nor ever should belong.
We can't ever forget that for every one US soldier killed in action, there are many, MANY more individuals in the countries we've invaded whose freedom and right to live were arbitrarily taken away from them at the behest of our government... so we can continue to have cheap gasoline and imported goods.
While you're shedding your tears, be conscious of the fact that the biggest casualties in the history of modern times are global security of life and personal liberty - everywhere but the United States of America (where the general population is far too ignorant to realize and too distracted to care that we've never been free at all).
Every fallen soldier is a symbol of everything wrong with our world... just not in the way you blathering bleeding-heart double-digit-IQ sheep want to believe.
Memorial Day: because when you don't pre-emptively think AND choose for yourself, Hallmark is happy to do it for you.
— especially
after Korea(s), Vietnam, Lebanon, Bay of Pigs, Laos, Cambodia, Grenada,
Afghanistan (the first one - ya know, where we spent billions of tax
dollars putting the very same people we now call the "terrorists" into
power), Iran/Iraq (again, the first one), Persian Gulf,
Kosovo, Afghanistan (the second one - oh, excuse me, *ahem* the start
of the "War on Terror"), Iraq (the second one, again... I'd say it's a
pattern, but naaaaaah), and all the conflicts I can't remember right now, and all the bullshit that's come about since
then and will continue to come about.
For me, Memorial Day is about shame; remembering all of the
MILLIONS—MILLIONS—of people that we've allowed our government to kill in
our names... and which we continue to allow.
I mean, really now, people, we gave up any legitimate claim to a homeland when we
started massacring the indigenous population of this part of the continent a couple hundred years ago, just after we liberated ourselves. (But, hey - it was a great idea for that first ten seconds it took us to start fucking it up).
Every once in awhile, I catch myself wondering anew why everyone has such a hostile reaction to being called out on their bullshit, or other similar "negativity."
... Then, about two seconds later, I remember that it's because we live in a collective that can only sustain its current state by rewarding the intellectual-fucking-laziest among us - and, of course, because cowardice is not only convenient and easy, but familiar.
