The Vivid Life

Government has no actual authority. All it has is might. It has no legitimacy. All it has is conspiracy. It has no ethics. It has only prerogatives.

She thinks I’m confident, but it’s not that I assume I’m going to win. It’s that, as long as I know I’ve put forth my best effort, I’m okay with losing.

Why is it that the more defined we are the more valid we feel?

I’d advocate lighter relationships, for most of us. Not friends-with-benefits, but lovers-with-friendship. Not casual sex without serious love, but casual love… with serious sex. 

Happiness is easy. Sadness is work. It takes effort. That’s why you feel run-down when you’re sad. It exhausts you. Happiness empowers you. Lifts you up. Be lazy. Be happy.

Doing good things doesn’t make you a good person. Doing bad things does not make you a bad person. It’s about consistency… quantity, here, over quality.

If I were to have a personal ad again (a few pointers)

Being sexy is more important than being beautiful. Being intelligent is more important than being smart. Being able to see the funny in everything is more important than being funny.

If life for you is not a beautiful and terrible thing, you’re doing it wrong.

Greed is Universal

Neither pure Communism nor pure Capitalism can ever lead to a better world, because while both are entirely reasonable ideas, they rely on the people with the power or the money not completely fucking over everyone else to keep and grow power and money, and both systems have proven that people will generally and consistently and ruthlessly fuck other people over for power and money.

Jealousy? Yeah, you don’t need that anymore. It’s an obsolete line of programming. We’re not in primitive nature anymore competing for mates for the sake of propagating the species. The genetic traits responsible for jealousy spread throughout the species simply because jealous humans millions of years ago, being jealous, were compelled to protect their sexual interests and thus were able to spread their genes more effectively.

So let go of jealousy, because jealousy only shows you to be evolution’s bitch.

I’m amused when people say that corporations are taking over America, as if it’s something just happening now or in recent history. The rich have been selling out the poor since the first time there were “the rich” and “the poor.” Fuck, this very country was founded by an actual conspiracy of rich guys, paid for by the blood of poor soldiers, built by the muscle of slave labor, and fed by the supple, tender, meat of the middle class.

The rich, they invented nobility to separate and privilege themselves. They made themselves chieftans, and sultans, and kings, and gurus, and senators, and presidents, and chief executives. They’ve done and do everything within their power, legal or not, to widen the expanse between themselves and the “common class.” The entirety of civilization has developed to ensure that they keep us knowing our place — through force or through culture — so that the status quo, and thus their status, be maintained. 

What I talk about is not some grand, complex conspiracy, but a bunch of small conspiracies and conspiring individuals. Each corporation — like, say, Monsanto — is in itself a conspiracy. As far back as you can research, you’ll find nefarious cabals of rich and powerful individuals, up to absolutely no good (except to them), stockpiling valuables and resources; and yeah, people are resources, too. Corporations are just a modern take on this, staffed by clever resources who are hoping to one-day be tapped by their masters to join them at the top of the world. Human civilization is an ecosystem of isolated conspiracies and would-be conspirators, both competing and collaborating. They conspire, if you believe it, not to make us poor, but to keep us plump enough to feed off of. 

Corporations are vampires. Politicians are their familiars. And you and I and all of your loved ones and that cute check-out girl and the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker… we’re all just meat. We are meat. And we’re all just too distracted by the trials and trappings and manufactured trivialities of everyday life, too absorbed by the novelties of even existing, to realize that our role in this great commercial, capitalistic civilization — this Great Material Continuum — is to work and produce and stay busy and keep our heads down and our eyes on some puny goal of some puny middle class dream. A dream that only when achieved is found out to be absolute shit. 

But whatever. Enjoy your car. Enjoy your TV shows. Enjoy all of your nice, shiny, distracting shit. Let’s keep telling ourselves that we deserve it. Because we do. We deserve everything we’re going to get.