Thursday, January 22, 2009

I guess it's about the ultimate question.

I've completely gotten out of the mindset that I should actually write something for my blog.
Most of my posts have been concerned with the fact that I haven't.
But should I?
I'm sure everyone would agree that getting started is the hardest part of a project. This is why I'm writing every immediately relevant thought that I have. Not quite a stream-of-consciousness narrative, but jesus, I need some sort of creative drip.
I've been fueled the last several months by little more than stress and adrenaline, so when I'm overwhelmed or if I've run out of those particular propellants, well, with gas comes exhaust, and I guess this is in a way part of my carbon footprint.
Why leave a single trace, though?
Fuck, how about living off of the grid?

What is this thing except for some cathartic mouth-flapping? So much out here is the same static sent from every surrounding angle, media is dying but intensifying, increasing in content, decreasing in value, only worth its weight in its number of hits on youtube. Prepubescent girls are deciding: the good music is represented by lipstick, lumps, bananas, and umbarellas. Every ounce of me is rebelling against this whole fucking scene, and my brain wants to vomit.
Purge, it's screaming, I don't need distractions anymore, I need frost-bitten-bone-cold reality, wring out the old shit, my own philosophies are failing, and I'm flailing in this continually continually perpetuating infinite world of simple ways to keep us from despair, entertain me no more fucking TEACH me something worthwhile.
But where is the FILTER?
The sieve only catches diversions now? What happened to progress?
Just get through the day just get through the week just get through the year we'll have something to numb our minds we'll get there eventually. Have faith.

Is this leading to the death of free-inquiry? This insistence that divine intervention will drive us, will push us down the path, we just have to grease the wheels?--the lazy path to salvation, no need to want to learn, we have the same rules, no maturation, no evolution, just led to the cutting floor with promises of fresh grass. Why do the calves need lies to survive? Why don't we look the butcher in the eye and accept that there is no better place than to simply live in this body of veal? We need our hobbies and the occasionally constant reminders that we must be good or burn in hell, burn in hell, burn in hell, you have no other reason to live.

So much of our society has lost its nerve, its motivation, its muse, its willingness to push itself; they'd be lost without "the good to come", being so used to preparing themselves and others for the future, squandering their opportunities to really do something meaningful now, to impact LIVES, as if there'd ever be anything more good or important than that.

My point is, of course everyone has an impact, but has it all become superficial? seen heard or read, barely digested then forgotten, so many webs crossing, your influence impermanent and inconsequential, is the mass scale of all others' weight too immense for any of us to really deal with? Doesn't this mean that we are making our own choices, but with all the wrong information?

(If there is hope for the repression of this human dementia, a billion angry degenerates and heretics won't be enough to lift the fog of denial and clear the room of indolent arrogant rational-ignorants; it requires a cataclysm. Without it, we can't evolve. No longer beguiled by myspace, Rihanna, no evil hamster, no more Oprah, no more distractions. Back to business: survival and progress. Then, of course, it will come down to a simple battle between reason and fear.
One or the other: God or humanity. Destroy it or be destroyed by it.)

Refusing to speak out of ideology is idiocy, it's self-defeating; what is a philosophy without debate? But then, what is a pronouncement in the face of the great black hole of everyone?

To be human is to try to make that imprint anyway.





Monday, May 5, 2008

Oh yeah...

What happens when you have no internet connection for 4 months: you forget you have a blog.

Thursday, January 3, 2008

chk chk chk

I need to post!
but I'm too cold.
send blankets.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Faith in Reason


I finished reading Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion a few days ago, prompting me to be more outspoken about my views. I'm an atheist and not only unafraid of saying it, but proud. Although I've held this position for a while, a public disclosure is a milestone for me, and it represents (on a small scale) an event I'm looking forward to: a social awakening.

A celebrated evolutionary biologist, Oxford Professor, and author (The Selfish Gene), Dawkins presents a compellingly logical yet entertaining and eloquent treatise for atheism that may do better by its constituency than by those it is trying to convert. His intention is to change the minds of the religious to that of reasonable skepticism. Instead, he's preaching to the choir.

I don't mean to say that this is insignificant. The God Delusion and books like it are, I hope, giving the doubters the courage to stand and be counted. Dawkins compares a movement like this to that of the gay revolution, and admitting disbelief to a kind of "coming out." We free-thinkers should demand a change in our circumstances, and the status quo is religiousness; a standard which engenders intolerance, oppression, bigotry, arrogance, child abuse, homophobia, abortion-clinic bombings, cruelties to women, war, suicide bombers, and educational systems that teach ignorance when it comes to math and science.

Seventy percent of Americans believe in angels. Yet The God Delusion has garnered much praise, even in the Bible-belt. God Is Not Great, a similar book by Christopher Hitchens, has had equally surprising success. Are these achievements indicative of a social trend? Are we finally ready to allow logic to prevail? I hope that following generations will be reading our holy texts in schools as literary culture (as we do the legends of Greek and Roman gods) rather than as their educational basis (as the supporters of intelligent design are trying to impose); and use those like Richard Dawkins as an example of enlightened revolutionists. Reason is at a precipice, and I think the coming years will decide if it will fall at God's feet.

Friday, November 9, 2007

Might take a while.

I haven't posted in a few days.
This is mostly because I'm thinking of ways to make my life more interesting, which would theoretically make it more interesting to write about. Maybe I ought to write about something besides my life?
I'll chew on that.

Saturday, November 3, 2007

It's been done.


Michael is working on something he calls Project 365.
On his flickr photo set, he eloquently sums up the plan, "I'm going to take a picture of myself every day, or at least that's the idea. "

I found that people have been participating in this mostly photographic aim for quite a while (the details are unclear because I don't care enough to research it), and undertakings like it have become a trend amongst those damn hippie trendsters.

Well, I've never really been trendy myself, which totally isn't fair. I don't even own a beret.

So, at the cost of being another bandwagon-jumper, I've decided I too will do something to the effect of "365" (without all that pot-smoking): as drawr-ings. I have just made so little "art" since I was 12 (you should have seen my Powdered Toast Man; and damn could I draw lobsters!); It's something I love yet neglect. I haven't decided if they'll all be self-portraits [note artist's rendering], but it is my new year-long resolution to draw at least one sketch (or related) daily.

I may even use hemp paper.

Good for the Soul


I be lovin these chips, girlfriend.
http://www.nabisco.com/gardenharvest/

You be all like "mmm" an' they be all like "uh-uh" an' you be all like "mm-hmm" an' they like "fuh real?" an' you be like "wer'"