Monday, March 02, 2009
Life goes on...
As I watched the beginning of the movie 'Deep Impact' last night as I refused to try and go to sleep the irony did not sink in. Only this morning as I watched people shovel snow and struggle to drive in it would I understand. In the movie the president tells the US that it is very likely that a giant asteroid is going to hit earth but that life will continue as normal paying bills going to work everything associated with daily life. And as I walked home in the deep fluffy drifts of snow that blanketed the ground watching people struggle to drive and to walk I remembered the quote from 'Deep Impact' and thought that if there was any chance at all that in a year the earth would be destroyed the last thing I would do was continue to go to work, pay bills, or anything considered part of daily life short of eating, sleeping, and shitting. What is it about soldiering on stoically that makes us feel important or gives us self worth. When did the main objective of humanity be merely to keep going no matter in what state or condition just keep going. That sounds like something they teach you in the army. How did we lose touch, if we were ever in touch, with the way we live and for what are we living. It seems to me that all we are living for is cable tv, ipods, porn, suv's, oreos, and any other material object you would care to name. We are wage slaves with no identity, no community, and no reason to live other than to prove to ourselves, and everyone else, that we are strong enough, and stupid enough, to get up and go to work everyday no matter how sick we are, no matter the weather, and no matter how pointless our jobs. It is like one giant world wide pissing contest and the prize for winning is absolutely nothing.
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Insightful writing Olaf. I know I should tell you to not feel bad or don't worry, but these exact things occupy my thoughts daily. And I don't think that you're depressed, I think you see things for what they are, absurd. The thing that I realize, however, is that you are allowing yourself to be wrapped up in this reality. Just because it's in front of you doesn't mean you have to buy into it. Create your own reality. Don't settle for what exists. Create the world you want to live in. I hope I don't sound preachy, it's what I attempt to practice everyday. I'm getting better at it, but often times fall back into the bullshit surrounding me. I will keep working at it though. The glimpses I've had at the results of such thoughts are very convincing. Try it. or, hey, fuck it, let's go bowling!
But you get to win if you survive! I won a teddy bear . . . one time. I like an oreo cookie now and again. It makes all the slave labor and mindless compliance worth while. I wish I could build a new reality, but all the tools are broken and the materials they gave me are shit - like a puzzle that only makes one picture.
In all seriousness, I wonder if that determination is not a biological, predetermined drive embedded for the perpetuation of the species. For those of us who see beyond the timid, lying futility, biology is superfluous. Strange. I was just talking about something similar.
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