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Time to meditate
From the Bible of Palahniuk, Chapter 25, verse 4, the gospel of Choke:
The Mommy, she used to tell him she was sorry. People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and addressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. On a roller coaster. At a movie. Still, it would always be that kind of faux excitement. You know the dinosaurs aren’t going to eat the kids. The test audiences have outvoted any chance of even a major faux disaster. And because there’s no possibility of real disaster, real risk, we’re left with no chance for real salvation. Real elation. Real excitement. Joy. Discovery. Invention.
The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
Without access to true chaos, we’ll never have true peace.
Unless everything can get worse, it won’t get any better.
This is all the stuff the Mommy used to tell him.
She used to say, The only frontier you have left is the world of intangibles. Everything else is sewn up too tight.
Caged inside too many laws.
By intangibles, she meant the Internet, movies, music, stories, art, rumors, computer programs, anything that isn’t real. Virtual realities. Make-believe stuff. The culture.
The unreal is more powerful than the real.
Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
Because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.
But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
If you can change the way people think, she said. The way they see themselves. They way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. And that’s the only lasting thing you can create.
Besides, at some point, the Mommy used to say, your memories, your stories and adventures, will be the only things you’ll have left.
WWJND?
5 Responses to “Time to meditate”
Wow Fred,
Looks like you’ve finally gone off the deep end, eh? Your blog makes no sense. You’re incoherent. Nothing but weird pictures and cryptic little sayings. Have you ‘progressed’ into a form of ultra-liberalism? Or, as you might say, uber-liberalista-exostentialization-faux-homo-retardus-indabrainus???
Hehehehehe……
I’m sure there are plenty of people in your personal life that can tell you far better than I that it’s not all about you, Megabrad.
Uh, actually, even your response to my comment is non sequiter.
And, really, the people in my personal life keep telling me it’s all about YOU, Fred.
Oh, you AND bacchus!! Let’s not forget about bacchus! Is he still pretend running for president or something?
It does not follow because your Conservative mind cannot think outside a liner, structured path, where everything is spoon fed to you. This post is about a book by Chuck Palahniuk called choke. It signifies that I’ve recently read it and this particular passage (in block quotes) gave me something to think about. It is also significant because they recently wrapped up filming the movie, which will be released next year (they’re called link, use them).
The last post, the one I think you were really referring to, was basically concerning nobody but three people, although it did serve the dual purpose of giving notice that I was having server issues and had lost a months worth of posts.
Oh, the last part, the “non sequiter,” that was simply telling you that if you shut up your own insentient rambling and used an once of brain, you could have come up with everything I’ve just told you with a moments contemplation. Now have I broken down the pieces sufficiently like a good mamma bird and spit them down your throat?
Hahahahaha…. whaaa?? Now you’re going for comedy? Hmm, too bad. You’re about as funny as bacchus is smart. Not very.
In other news…
Get this. I’m supporting a democratic candidate for governor of Washington state.
Yes! True! Fact!
Heheheheheh…. Wonder what I’m really up to?