In America, Every Puddle's A Gasoline Rainbow.
There is so much superficiality. So much rendering of thought, and posturing, and the strict adherence to a charicature. And I wonder, is this what it looks like towards my satellite dish as well, from the outside looking in? We humans are such incredibly foolish and egotistical creatures! And even when we believe ourselves to have gotten beyond all of that. So quick to send a cockeyed look towards the drunken stranger making an idiot of himself on the street, and so loathe to acknowledge our own obnoxious character traits. There are several facts that we must come to agree are axioms.
My use of the word axiom is perhaps hyperbolic, but you get the idea. Things could be so simple if we'd shave off the layers of egoism. And I think of the word "simple," and how the human animal has no place for it despite all of our clearance-rack zen gardens and travel size aromatherapy kits, and I find myself to be quite naive indeed. Jerry Springer certainly wouldn't be the millionaire that he is today if it weren't for this human desire to complicate things. We are Rome, and we will make the same mistakes over and over, and many of us won't learn a single thing out of all of this mistake making, and we will fall, we will fall. Stop viewing yourself as an island, detached from and unaffected by those around you. Where is our Marcus Aurelius to leave a beacon for future generations to uncover, the shred of evidence that says we had some redeeming qualities, if only a few?
"How to act: Never without forethought, under compulsion, with misgivings."
- Everyone assumes that they are right, and that the rest of the world is wrong. Everyone.
- "Right" is always necessarily subjective.
- Most people desire (quite fervently) just two things: compassion, and respect.
My use of the word axiom is perhaps hyperbolic, but you get the idea. Things could be so simple if we'd shave off the layers of egoism. And I think of the word "simple," and how the human animal has no place for it despite all of our clearance-rack zen gardens and travel size aromatherapy kits, and I find myself to be quite naive indeed. Jerry Springer certainly wouldn't be the millionaire that he is today if it weren't for this human desire to complicate things. We are Rome, and we will make the same mistakes over and over, and many of us won't learn a single thing out of all of this mistake making, and we will fall, we will fall. Stop viewing yourself as an island, detached from and unaffected by those around you. Where is our Marcus Aurelius to leave a beacon for future generations to uncover, the shred of evidence that says we had some redeeming qualities, if only a few?
"How to act: Never without forethought, under compulsion, with misgivings."
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