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Tuesday, November 15

Everything Sucks

... well it sorta does.

It depends on your perspective, your point of view, so to speak (incidentally, the first time I've ever dropped the title of this blog in context).

The world is doing the stupid dance. A war rages that no one wants to pay attention to. It's the 70s all over again, and, instead of Vietnam, people are dying in Iraq on a daily basis because of political buffoonery. But no-one cares... we, the powerful, are more concerned about the media blitz of Eva Longoria, or the last and next games of poker. There's hurricanes and political corruption to be concerned with, not that it has anything to do with the war...

"The cost of living is going up, I've got a job to go to every day, why should I worry about anything outside of that. Besides, everything will either stay the same or get worse... I just have to get mine while I'm here."

"What? What am I after you ask? Happiness, of course. great vacations, a nice place to live, a car or two, and good family life."

"What else? What else is there?"

"Ummm... let me get back to you on that."

Insulation is the name of the game. If one is sufficiently insulated from reality, one can start to enjoy one's life, absent-minded of the elements that construct the existence one enjoys. It is this pleasent separation from reality -- a synaptic schism -- that permits acceptance of the unknown interim.

If individuals were aware of all of the action potentials leaping across all of the synapses of every part of the body, even for a moment, the ensuing state of awareness would transcend all existence...

"I don't care how it works, I just need to know that it works."

It seems that the human condition is to be content in falling short of potential. to make do with what limitations there are instead of pushing toward new and attainable solutions. Setting the bar lower with each ensuing generation ensures a backward slide for culture and reason, for humanity at large. This philosophy, disseminated at large by those with a vested interest in guaranteeing general failure among individuals, secures and furthers success of few people in the process.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it doesn't promote achievement.

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