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The Pleasure Paradox
Everything that brings joy is supposedly bad for you. Sex can result in disease, death, an even worse, children. Food makes you fat. Booze rots your liver. And weed is the most evil of all: it makes you hungry, thirsty, and horny. What to do in such a Quakerish reality?
Considering that no one gets out alive, and death is a most certain promise, it only makes sense to embrace pleasure. If a person has to die the only logical way to go about it is to do what makes that person most happy.
If it pleases a person to drink -- tip a glass...or twenty.
If a person prefers to fornicate -- fuck it (literally so).
If a person possesses a multitude of complex taste buds and desires to utilize every one -- Eat it, and you shall be it.
What is most worthy: Living 80 years and only enjoying 40 of them? Or living 60 and enjoying everyday?
The only caveat: Don't boohoo when the bill comes due. I won't cry when I die, and neither should you.
Considering that no one gets out alive, and death is a most certain promise, it only makes sense to embrace pleasure. If a person has to die the only logical way to go about it is to do what makes that person most happy.
If it pleases a person to drink -- tip a glass...or twenty.
If a person prefers to fornicate -- fuck it (literally so).
If a person possesses a multitude of complex taste buds and desires to utilize every one -- Eat it, and you shall be it.
What is most worthy: Living 80 years and only enjoying 40 of them? Or living 60 and enjoying everyday?
The only caveat: Don't boohoo when the bill comes due. I won't cry when I die, and neither should you.
The Illogical School of Irrationality.
I'm developing my own style/genre of writing tentatively called The Illogical School of Irrationality. I got the idea thinking about AI and how people are now using AI to write books. The only things that will separate original writers from the AI crap are humor and poetry, the more illogical or irrational the better.
AI cannot duplicate those unique traits that only come from the human mind. On a philosophical level, we live in a chaotic world rife with corruption and evil, so thinking opposite of that is a rejection of such a world and yearning for a better one.
We are constantly besieged by mind-control methods of propagandized politics, mass media, putrid pop culture, and ad-induced materialism that tell us what to think. To be illogical today is a badge of honor.
Historically, rationality has been weaponized. Why did people freely follow orders and march into concentration camps during WWII? Because "authorities" told them to and it was the rational and logical thing to do. Why do people today take the mRNA vaccines and boosters when they clearly don't work and cause heart issues? Because the authorities said so and it is the logical and rational thing to do. Why do people pay taxes and not revolt? Because authorities say so and it is logical and rational to pay even though we have no say where the money goes.
So, I'm starting my own style of writing that is opposite of that, hence the name The Illogical School of Irrationality. It probably won't win me any publishing awards, but it's rejuvenated my writing.
Bedouin in a Fallen Desert, my next poetry book, will be the first official book written in that style.
To the manipulated masses it seems perfectly rational to follow the experts, who are really Judas Goats leading them to authoritative prisons. Bill Gates, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Zuckerberg are just a few, yet they follow orders like me and you. Bankers and Industrialists dictate the news. Lies are what they spew. I thought you knew?
Mossad/CIA/DARPA tell you what to do. A basic set of rules yet never question who rules over you.
AI cannot duplicate those unique traits that only come from the human mind. On a philosophical level, we live in a chaotic world rife with corruption and evil, so thinking opposite of that is a rejection of such a world and yearning for a better one.
We are constantly besieged by mind-control methods of propagandized politics, mass media, putrid pop culture, and ad-induced materialism that tell us what to think. To be illogical today is a badge of honor.
Historically, rationality has been weaponized. Why did people freely follow orders and march into concentration camps during WWII? Because "authorities" told them to and it was the rational and logical thing to do. Why do people today take the mRNA vaccines and boosters when they clearly don't work and cause heart issues? Because the authorities said so and it is the logical and rational thing to do. Why do people pay taxes and not revolt? Because authorities say so and it is logical and rational to pay even though we have no say where the money goes.
So, I'm starting my own style of writing that is opposite of that, hence the name The Illogical School of Irrationality. It probably won't win me any publishing awards, but it's rejuvenated my writing.
Bedouin in a Fallen Desert, my next poetry book, will be the first official book written in that style.
To the manipulated masses it seems perfectly rational to follow the experts, who are really Judas Goats leading them to authoritative prisons. Bill Gates, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Zuckerberg are just a few, yet they follow orders like me and you. Bankers and Industrialists dictate the news. Lies are what they spew. I thought you knew?
Mossad/CIA/DARPA tell you what to do. A basic set of rules yet never question who rules over you.
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