Raving lunatic
Wednesday January 18, 2006 - 4:13PM EDT
When I hear people say that you should be grateful for a good life I want to slap them. I don't know why and how graciousness became such a important and high concept. Let's start over. I understand the place of graciousness when dealing with people. As a person to person interaction being grateful has its benifits and makes sense. However when it goes outside those bounds ot esoteric things that is when it just pisses me off. Even in a person to person context I think it is overused but when people start being grateful to basically nothing about their life or anything it makes no sense. Don't even get me started on thanking god. These uber-losers who feel the need to thank for every little thing or submissive morons. Not only are they probably discounting their own abilities, but also most likely they are twisting reality by believing too much that something other than chance affected their current state.
The philosophical reasons against being grateful be damned for a second though. Instead of being thankful for your life as if it you were given some wonderful hand your ass should be using all your effort to ensure that everyones life is as good as yours. Its much easier to give thanks for your life and watch other poor scum get screwed. That kind of thinking dominating human society today is what will screw us in the future. Take advantage of every advantage you have then use it to make sure your advantage becomes the norm and all those disadvantages dissappear. That way your piddly ass won't have worry about get screwed in the future.
Since I'm rather mercurial about pretty much anything I have no problems with the erratic behavior of others. I'll pretty much accept most erractic behavior and won't be offended by it. I'll rip it for being ineffecient and supporting THE MAN but other than that I'll never hold you being a lunatic against you. I tear apart religion and whatnot but I hang out with a bunch of very religious people on a weekly basis, I play frisbee with some. I think they are kooky for believing in that trash but other than that they are no better or worse than me.
I was thinking today in the car how people are afraid of or disgusted by the idea that this world is as simple as a chemical formula. What I mean is that some people of afraid of everything being disassembled into parts in a system. They want mysterious things to prevail. They don't want to hear that being alive has nothing to do with this concept of a soul but is simply the sum of the parts of a bunch of different chemcials reacting to each other in a complex system. It is as if that kind of description is going to change reality. This so called fear of science and the idea that there is something greater baffles me. It is all in your head. Everything is. Beauty, color, warmth, pain, cold, french fries. Human emotion. It is not well understood now, but maybe it will be broken down into certain sets of chemcial reactions in the brain. Why is it that people are afraid of knowing how things work? Why do they accept mysterious things? What changes if they believe there is no soul? I don't get it.
Back to beating THE MAN and the system it imposes on us. This organically grown monstrousity of a system needs to be remodeled.
I am trying to figure out a way to quit my job quickly. I could care less about being courteous I just want to leave. I just hate the fake posturing that goes along with giving your notice. I just want to leave and that is that, no hard feelings this place is just a bore.
Everyone is such a product of their experience and genetics. We still don't have a firm hold on everything in that system but rest assured.