Speak of the arrows which collapse unfaded through the gates of gated gratuities
Expansive perpetuity
Leading to the loose leaf paper falling from empty trees in the dead of an autumnal night
Moonlight,
Clouded contact lenses
Mills billowing, malls bellowing
"Open for busy-ness! Open for busy-ness!"
Unzipping jackets with a smile that says
"From the ends of endings, I have always begun with an eternal grin while you slept on my knees and I dreamed of things smaller than the precipice of the period at the end of this sentence."
This never loved that
And that never loved this
Because they soon discovered 'This' was not this, and 'That' was not that
They were all There together, and discovered an 8 kicked sideways was an honesty beyond promises
And angrily, I remember wondering what had ever come over the all of us that wanted nothing more to do with anger
Had we stormed off in all directions, reading to seek in veins for a blood that was unfounded in the deadly hallows of happy mathematics?
Or were we simply throwing words together in the hopes of sounding surreal?
Sometimes I feel psuedo when I write, when I know I'm quite as real as anyone else.
I just need to struggle with the words more honestly, I suppose.
Perhaps I need to struggle more honestly with myself.
As Kerouac said,
“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”
I need to go mad.
I need to quit my job and be here and all over here without a worry for the ideas
Yesterday, tomorrow
It is only ever today.
It doesn't need to make sense. It doesn't need to oblige my mother and father with a proper philosophical argument as to why I want to be here, because all they've ever been is 'there,' with the best intentions at heart I know, but without ever coming back down to Earth and letting their worries waft away like the smell of fresh, metallic rain during the Ides of March.
They failed the exam of the lilies which did not accept the parental "this is the way it is."
It is only the way it is because we are too cowardly to endorse our wildest dreams.
We do not wish upon stars, and if we do, it is because we wish upon those stars to help us get out of there, when all we have to do to escape there is to be here like a sudden clash of thunder upon a bobby-pin that has been pricked into the arm out of an innocent curiosity which all the There-Afters would call strange, while the Here-Nows would smile and nod at such beautiful sincerity.
At such pristine reality.
All the logical arguments my father confers upon me during our Grand Cosmic Debates always feel gently serious. He does not wish to convert me, nor to convince me.
He simply tries to pull me gently back into his reality, which sits reinforced by the rest of the global nay-sayers and There-Afters.
Why is it that my parents never had the courage to go mad?
Why was it nothing but a literary curiosity to them?
Why do they still continue to believe that one cannot simply run off into the sunset with a cosmic sense of reckless abandon?
The human race is nothing but a grand conviction.
The words themselves look to say, "Now, here here young one! You are a part of our great label. You owe us. We have been measuring since the day of your birth."
It's like we are born, and hopped through hoops until satisfaction meets the empty stomach to tell it that it must be full. So we struggle to fill, but it always becomes empty again. We seek to devour and consume and listen to the creased minds of our parents as they confer to us their common notion of sense which truly senses nothing beyond nonsense.
All of this makes me feel like I'm jogging on a sidewalk of soap.
And I'm sleepy.
We all work too hard, even when we're not at work.
We feel the affluenzic pull of occupation.
Not because we occupy our occupations,
but because our occupations occupy us.
I am a Cosmic Hobbyist
For the infinite round of nowever and always again.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Ideological Notes in Process
Certain calculated amount given to every individual on a monthly basis,
Base amount: just above amount needed to survive.
Plus amount: used to sustain a life of comfort, so it is not a struggle to exist.
If part of the Societal Sustainment Sphere, there is a fair bonus of, perhaps, a grand more for your direct contribution (work in the 'Societal Sustainment Sphere' typically being work which is less than desirable, and is simply out of necessity. This can range from politics to plumbing, to agriculture and janitorial duties. Any field of work which is deemed as required, yet which no one wishes to do under normal hobbyist conditions, will be added to the sphere).
Everyone becomes professional hobbyists, and pursue whatever they may wish without being required to work jobs they do not desire to. This eliminates the requirement for monetary gain when one wishes to lead a certain lifestyle, but does not eliminate ones ability to make money via their professional hobby.
A currency flow between individuals and collectives occurs similar to today. People may buy and sell goods and services freely amongst one another with a cap on profits in the form of a 'maximum wage.' Surplus profits made above this amount will be given to the government as a form of lax taxation. People may hire assistance, with the incentive to employment being a disposable income. A minimum wage, for this reason, will still continue to exist.
For all professions, whether within the SSS or within the employment of hobbyists, the work-week should be no longer than 3 days unless otherwise desired by all parties involved.
Base amount: just above amount needed to survive.
Plus amount: used to sustain a life of comfort, so it is not a struggle to exist.
If part of the Societal Sustainment Sphere, there is a fair bonus of, perhaps, a grand more for your direct contribution (work in the 'Societal Sustainment Sphere' typically being work which is less than desirable, and is simply out of necessity. This can range from politics to plumbing, to agriculture and janitorial duties. Any field of work which is deemed as required, yet which no one wishes to do under normal hobbyist conditions, will be added to the sphere).
Everyone becomes professional hobbyists, and pursue whatever they may wish without being required to work jobs they do not desire to. This eliminates the requirement for monetary gain when one wishes to lead a certain lifestyle, but does not eliminate ones ability to make money via their professional hobby.
A currency flow between individuals and collectives occurs similar to today. People may buy and sell goods and services freely amongst one another with a cap on profits in the form of a 'maximum wage.' Surplus profits made above this amount will be given to the government as a form of lax taxation. People may hire assistance, with the incentive to employment being a disposable income. A minimum wage, for this reason, will still continue to exist.
For all professions, whether within the SSS or within the employment of hobbyists, the work-week should be no longer than 3 days unless otherwise desired by all parties involved.
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The world is meaningless,
there is no God or gods, there are no morals, the universe is not moving inexorably towards any higher purpose.
All meaning is man-made, so make your own, and make it well.
Do not treat life as a way to pass the time until you die.
Do not try to "find yourself", you must make yourself.
Choose what you want to find meaningful and live, create, love, hate, cry, destroy, fight and die for it.
Do not let your life and your values and your actions slip easily into any mold, other that that which you create for yourself, and say with conviction, "This is who I make myself".
Do not give in to hope.
Remember that nothing you do has any significance beyond that with which you imbue it.
Whatever you do, do it for its own sake.
When the universe looks on with indifference, laugh, and shout back, "Fuck You!".
Rembember that to fight meaninglessness is futile, but fight anyway, in spite of and because of its futility.
The world may be empty of meaning, but it is a blank canvas on which to paint meanings of your own.
Live deliberately. You are free.
All meaning is man-made, so make your own, and make it well.
Do not treat life as a way to pass the time until you die.
Do not try to "find yourself", you must make yourself.
Choose what you want to find meaningful and live, create, love, hate, cry, destroy, fight and die for it.
Do not let your life and your values and your actions slip easily into any mold, other that that which you create for yourself, and say with conviction, "This is who I make myself".
Do not give in to hope.
Remember that nothing you do has any significance beyond that with which you imbue it.
Whatever you do, do it for its own sake.
When the universe looks on with indifference, laugh, and shout back, "Fuck You!".
Rembember that to fight meaninglessness is futile, but fight anyway, in spite of and because of its futility.
The world may be empty of meaning, but it is a blank canvas on which to paint meanings of your own.
Live deliberately. You are free.