It is really strange watching the devolution of this country. Instead of continuing to develop, people are going backwards, turning back into primordial ooze. Or where ever we came from.
It's surreal constantly finding myself trying to explain the obvious. It's exceptionally hard to do, try it sometime. Why is it wrong to kill? Why is it wrong to steal? Why is it wrong to lie? These are things that everybody is supposed to know; it doesn't take a discourse or fancy university degree. Ironically, it is a lot of those fancy university degreed people who don't seem to know, or remember or comprehend or respect any of these obvious things that everybody is supposed to know.
What's all the rage these days and as far into the future as we can stomach seeing? According to those with Acquired Degreed Degeneracy Syndrome, it is doing everything and anything to erase the real, the obvious, the sensible, the rational, the fair, the common sense, the truth, the very nature and decency of man, along with nature itself. "Fuck nature!", they all seem to be saying. "And fuck you too, worm!" [Insert maniacal laugh here.]
It appears the game-plan is to replace the normative substance of nature and man with an artificially created profitable devolution version of the future; and they are riding it in on the solid gold backs of stampeding wild war-horses of the apocalypse. "Ahead Death! Ahead Lies! Onward to serfdom! Run Hypocrisy! Faster Biotech! Do not tarry! The future are belong to us!" "Us" being the most clinically insane, depraved assholes of all time, out to get rich by destroying the whole of the world and all life on it. What the hell is wrong with these people?
Oh now I know what you must be saying. You're saying, "Ang, that's just not so. They're not trying to kill the whole of the world. They're just on target to get rid of most of earth's population. It's only a clean up job, a little tidying up, you know, sweeping away the flotsam and jetsam of pointless humanity to make the world a better place for us, the ones who really deserve to be here because we're so superior and shit."
See what I mean? It's everywhere. Do I really have to explain why it is depraved to the nth degree to murder most of the planet's human populace just because "you" think it's a good idea? Well who the hell are you? I guess the answer to that question is self evident. "You" means the people doing it and getting away with it.
I didn't used to understand God's anger in the Old Testament. I always thought he was kind of harsh the way he kept turning cities and peoples into smoked flambe'. Now I get it. Now I totally understand what made God so angry that he annihilated population after population of filthy, stupid, corrupt, greedy perverts and twist-cases that had no respect for life, no morality, couldn't care less about their fellow man, or God. When cities devolved completely into lecherous, criminal, greed and corruption, it made God sick to his stomach. He wanted to God hurl. Maybe that's how all those swirling galaxies got created, they are deity puke. That is something to flesh out another time maybe.
In the Old Testament, Genesis 6, which is pretty early on in the story of God and man, God was already up to here with stupid human meat puppets. God was appalled, offended and disgusted by the corruption everywhere. There was so much corruption that even the earth itself was filled up with corruption. That's a lot of dang corruption. And God repented for having created man upon the earth because man was just a piece of shit and that's all there was to it. Man didn't get it. Man wasn't bright enough to actually get it, and God knew that, but God figured if his creation just did what he told them to do, they'd be fine. Great in fact. But right out of the box his creation blew him off. It took about 15 minutes. God was left standing there all alone doing the V-8 forehead slap. "Why will you not listen to me?", he must have asked a zillion times.
From the get go, people were corrupt. They were selfish and greedy and violent and dishonest and perverted and sadistic and cruel and all the things that people can be that tear peaceful, loving existence to shreds and use it for toilet paper. Killing children, raping anything that moves, worshiping status and wealth, selling your own family into prostitution, mass marketing, whatever, just so long as you move up the food chain. It's perfectly inane, but there it is anyway. There is no point to chasing wealth and status except self glorification. Frankly, I have never met anyone who deserved glorification. I don't think any such human exists. Never has. Never will.
So right after people abandoned God at the first sign of something shiny across the street, the next thing they did was lie about being God themselves. They put on funny hats and long gowns and encrusted themselves with gold and gems and finery and went about strutting their stuff acting like God's gift to mankind; protected by battalions of heavily armed men to keep from having the shit kicked out of them by the masses who have always known bullshit when they see it. If all of these self appointed special people were all that great, why do they live off people they impoverish and work to death and why do they have to have armed protection? Is it because they're full of crap? Yes it is.
To this day we can watch the God Wannabee's strutting their stuff on the world stage, most of them seem to live here in the states, or in England or Israel. They all do the same thing. They lie and talk about how great they are and how they're right about everything and can not be prosecuted for any of those right things they do. Those right things that end up leaving millions of dead bodies in their wake and countless hectares of poverty strewn suffering defenseless humanity behind them. Yes indeed, good job men. Well done. If you're flaming moronic amoral pond scum that is.
Is this a joke? Is this whole planet one great big April Fool's joke? Is this thing on? Is it just me or is what we're witnessing materializing before us on this earth the exact opposite of the best thing in the world ever, ever? Is humanity screwed or what? And who are these jokers having so much fun crushing the planet into bloody, brutalized, begging pulp? Why are they allowed to live? Aren't these the exact corrupt scum bags that God zapped into smithereens over and again? What are they, human cockroaches or something? Will they never go away and leave us in peace?
Apparently not.
We have a pickle here. A gauntlet has been thrown down before us...but, the game is rigged. Just like in the movies. "Pick up the gun!" "No mister I don't want to pick up the gun!" "Pick it up or we'll shoot you!" "Okay okay, here, I picked it up". And then they blow him away saying he pulled a gun on them. Seen it before? See it repeated all around you in endless ways? Is that or is that not corruption? Well there you go, there really is nothing new under the sun.
How many times did God tell people how to live well and right so that evil would not consume them and poop out their bones like camel droppings in the sand? More than once I'm sure. I've never counted. But how many times can you open the bible to find God saying, "Enough! You are out of here!" Enough times to understand that even God Himself could get sick and tired of repeating the same simple request to man: be decent human beings.
They brought us poppy fields to fall asleep in, and we did. Then the flying monkeys came and they got jobs as lawmakers and radio talk show hosts and TV liars. And then the poppies wore off. Bullets, bombs, pills and chemicals are killing the world and bankers are eating the killings. And everybody keeps pretending that there's a perfectly good explanation for all of this and there's nothing wrong. Like hell there isn't. Tell me one thing right about it.
Evil is not a single individual running around the world doing evil things. The point of evil is not to do evil, it is to get you to do it for him. Satan wins the one world cup. All I can say is that if God shows up head for the hills children. And don't look back.
It's surreal constantly finding myself trying to explain the obvious. It's exceptionally hard to do, try it sometime. Why is it wrong to kill? Why is it wrong to steal? Why is it wrong to lie? These are things that everybody is supposed to know; it doesn't take a discourse or fancy university degree. Ironically, it is a lot of those fancy university degreed people who don't seem to know, or remember or comprehend or respect any of these obvious things that everybody is supposed to know.
What's all the rage these days and as far into the future as we can stomach seeing? According to those with Acquired Degreed Degeneracy Syndrome, it is doing everything and anything to erase the real, the obvious, the sensible, the rational, the fair, the common sense, the truth, the very nature and decency of man, along with nature itself. "Fuck nature!", they all seem to be saying. "And fuck you too, worm!" [Insert maniacal laugh here.]
It appears the game-plan is to replace the normative substance of nature and man with an artificially created profitable devolution version of the future; and they are riding it in on the solid gold backs of stampeding wild war-horses of the apocalypse. "Ahead Death! Ahead Lies! Onward to serfdom! Run Hypocrisy! Faster Biotech! Do not tarry! The future are belong to us!" "Us" being the most clinically insane, depraved assholes of all time, out to get rich by destroying the whole of the world and all life on it. What the hell is wrong with these people?
Oh now I know what you must be saying. You're saying, "Ang, that's just not so. They're not trying to kill the whole of the world. They're just on target to get rid of most of earth's population. It's only a clean up job, a little tidying up, you know, sweeping away the flotsam and jetsam of pointless humanity to make the world a better place for us, the ones who really deserve to be here because we're so superior and shit."
See what I mean? It's everywhere. Do I really have to explain why it is depraved to the nth degree to murder most of the planet's human populace just because "you" think it's a good idea? Well who the hell are you? I guess the answer to that question is self evident. "You" means the people doing it and getting away with it.
I didn't used to understand God's anger in the Old Testament. I always thought he was kind of harsh the way he kept turning cities and peoples into smoked flambe'. Now I get it. Now I totally understand what made God so angry that he annihilated population after population of filthy, stupid, corrupt, greedy perverts and twist-cases that had no respect for life, no morality, couldn't care less about their fellow man, or God. When cities devolved completely into lecherous, criminal, greed and corruption, it made God sick to his stomach. He wanted to God hurl. Maybe that's how all those swirling galaxies got created, they are deity puke. That is something to flesh out another time maybe.
In the Old Testament, Genesis 6, which is pretty early on in the story of God and man, God was already up to here with stupid human meat puppets. God was appalled, offended and disgusted by the corruption everywhere. There was so much corruption that even the earth itself was filled up with corruption. That's a lot of dang corruption. And God repented for having created man upon the earth because man was just a piece of shit and that's all there was to it. Man didn't get it. Man wasn't bright enough to actually get it, and God knew that, but God figured if his creation just did what he told them to do, they'd be fine. Great in fact. But right out of the box his creation blew him off. It took about 15 minutes. God was left standing there all alone doing the V-8 forehead slap. "Why will you not listen to me?", he must have asked a zillion times.
From the get go, people were corrupt. They were selfish and greedy and violent and dishonest and perverted and sadistic and cruel and all the things that people can be that tear peaceful, loving existence to shreds and use it for toilet paper. Killing children, raping anything that moves, worshiping status and wealth, selling your own family into prostitution, mass marketing, whatever, just so long as you move up the food chain. It's perfectly inane, but there it is anyway. There is no point to chasing wealth and status except self glorification. Frankly, I have never met anyone who deserved glorification. I don't think any such human exists. Never has. Never will.
So right after people abandoned God at the first sign of something shiny across the street, the next thing they did was lie about being God themselves. They put on funny hats and long gowns and encrusted themselves with gold and gems and finery and went about strutting their stuff acting like God's gift to mankind; protected by battalions of heavily armed men to keep from having the shit kicked out of them by the masses who have always known bullshit when they see it. If all of these self appointed special people were all that great, why do they live off people they impoverish and work to death and why do they have to have armed protection? Is it because they're full of crap? Yes it is.
To this day we can watch the God Wannabee's strutting their stuff on the world stage, most of them seem to live here in the states, or in England or Israel. They all do the same thing. They lie and talk about how great they are and how they're right about everything and can not be prosecuted for any of those right things they do. Those right things that end up leaving millions of dead bodies in their wake and countless hectares of poverty strewn suffering defenseless humanity behind them. Yes indeed, good job men. Well done. If you're flaming moronic amoral pond scum that is.
Is this a joke? Is this whole planet one great big April Fool's joke? Is this thing on? Is it just me or is what we're witnessing materializing before us on this earth the exact opposite of the best thing in the world ever, ever? Is humanity screwed or what? And who are these jokers having so much fun crushing the planet into bloody, brutalized, begging pulp? Why are they allowed to live? Aren't these the exact corrupt scum bags that God zapped into smithereens over and again? What are they, human cockroaches or something? Will they never go away and leave us in peace?
Apparently not.
We have a pickle here. A gauntlet has been thrown down before us...but, the game is rigged. Just like in the movies. "Pick up the gun!" "No mister I don't want to pick up the gun!" "Pick it up or we'll shoot you!" "Okay okay, here, I picked it up". And then they blow him away saying he pulled a gun on them. Seen it before? See it repeated all around you in endless ways? Is that or is that not corruption? Well there you go, there really is nothing new under the sun.
How many times did God tell people how to live well and right so that evil would not consume them and poop out their bones like camel droppings in the sand? More than once I'm sure. I've never counted. But how many times can you open the bible to find God saying, "Enough! You are out of here!" Enough times to understand that even God Himself could get sick and tired of repeating the same simple request to man: be decent human beings.
They brought us poppy fields to fall asleep in, and we did. Then the flying monkeys came and they got jobs as lawmakers and radio talk show hosts and TV liars. And then the poppies wore off. Bullets, bombs, pills and chemicals are killing the world and bankers are eating the killings. And everybody keeps pretending that there's a perfectly good explanation for all of this and there's nothing wrong. Like hell there isn't. Tell me one thing right about it.
Evil is not a single individual running around the world doing evil things. The point of evil is not to do evil, it is to get you to do it for him. Satan wins the one world cup. All I can say is that if God shows up head for the hills children. And don't look back.
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Ang,
ReplyDeleteWonderful. It ended much too soon for my part. Not that your job is to entertain, but if you're going to use phrases like Acquired Degreed Degeneracy Syndrome, it's unavoidable. I was at first personally a little hurt that you write "Frankly, I have never met anyone who deserved glorification." but I got over it. It's the awful truth that even for us in the secular crowd the world seems to be revealing itself as a grand vista of good against evil, against a backdrop of an epochal apocalypse. Who woulda thunk it'd be us, in this living generation to see it all go down. Sign me up for the good guys, even if God has to come out of hiding and get involved. The other guy is making his presence felt all too much. That's about the only explanation for just how bad some people can treat other people.
Dwight,
ReplyDeleteThank you. I spend a lot of time thinking about why there are shitty people. Read Lloyd DeMause's work on the history of childhood and the origins of war in child abuse and it begins to make real sense. Unless and until this world starts treating its women and children decently, as a high priority that is, we'll continue being rocked by violence and keep getting lunatics at the wheel.
Thank you for your comment.
Ang
Hello Angie, long time no see!
ReplyDeleteI wish you wrote more often. It's been amazing to watch you come into your own, literarily.
I agree, this time we're living in is nearly unfathomable. The degree of greed and hedonism being displayed by the elite is breathtaking. But why not. As you said, they've got the nukes in case we disagree with their lifestyles. To think in 1969 it would all go down the crapper this way would have been unimaginable! I mean, it was supposed to be the dawning of the Age of Aquarius! What an extended BUMMER this has turned out to be. But you know, it's still possible to find beauty and joy. You have to let go of this Fox news version of reality and create your own. It's a totally directed thought process, and it takes work, but it's worth it. I would still be available for the revolution--I just don't see it happening any more, and my despondent self destruction won't change this wierd reality today. So all I can do is change my own. I have found a good degree of peace in doing so, and I hope you and your thoughtful readers can do the same. Maybe we can one day "break on through to the other side". Time will tell.
Hi Jerry,
ReplyDeleteReally, thank you for your kind words. Who would have thought that the wave of freedom of the sixties would become so cruelly and grotesquely erased and turned into a profitable pop icon with no relation to the time? Then again, we should have expected no less. It's a repeating cycle; a few steps forward a few steps back, it's hard to tell if humanity ever really makes any progress. The props change with the era, but the people don't change at all.
How could any person of conscience and respect for life not be sickened by the evolving waves of fascism and war and brutality and stupidity and carnage? All for naught. All a waste. Unless of course you get off on that sort of thing, and clearly, a lot of people do get off on it. I can't change them and neither can you.
I don't watch fox news or any other news, I can't tolerate the commercials. Not even 1. Can't do it, won't do it. It's the things that offend me like the naked body scanners at airports. You'd have to kill me before you could drag my corpse into one of those. I am not an animal. It's sad that so many people don't have the sense or self respect to refuse to be treated like worms and scum. It's disheartening.
But you know, sometimes I wonder if this ocean of humanity is there for us to surf, if that makes any sense. Like you said, find your own thing and be happy in spite of it. That is what we are wired to do, it's just hard to do it well in a burning building. Folks like us have the sense to leave the building, but it goes against everything we believe in to watch people dancing away, refusing to believe the flames will ever hurt them.
It's not up to us, it's not our call. We can only make choices for ourselves. That said, for now at least, I can't stop watching. I can't stop trying. And I can't have much fun either. I get the feeling I'm not alone in this.
Ang