Sunday, November 6, 2005

Autoerotic Autodidact

This is a collection both of my writing and writings of other brains more accustomed to the intricacies of our economic, political, and sociological systems, and their historical contexts. The overarching theme of everything you'll find here is this: "This Sucks (And Here's How), But You Can Find Joy In It While You Change It." I'm really fucking tired of people recognizing that there are huge, unenjoyable, inconvenient, sometimes torturous parts of their lives that are controlled by Someone Else (whomever that may be), and then rolling over under a coverlet of supposed helplessness or, worse, apathy, convinced there's not a goddamned thing they can do to improve their situations. In this country, for fuck's sake. To these I say,

Fuck You, Retard. If you aren't willing to kick yourself in the head and heart and fucking do something Impossible, Improbable, or even just Not A Good Idea by general Amerikan societal standards, then shut the fuck up and let the rest of us get on with changing our lives for the interesting.

If we don't want to live the way the obscenely wealthy tell us, need us to, then we've got some fucking work to do. Fuck that Life of Ennui bullshit. Fuck the family, the dependable spouse and stinky-spoiled offspring; fuck the house, the multiple vehicles, the steady job, the one- or two-week vacations to somewhere our economic policies and gluttony have decimated; fuck the whole idea of an Amerikan Dream.

I am an American second and a Human first. As an entity capable of pushing my own evolution, it is my absolute obligation to do so. Eating others' mandates for dinner isn't providing the nourishment I need. I must hunt, kill, prepare, and consume my own ideas and parameters of acceptability, must form the tangled and mysterious pathways of my evolving self before some fucking corporation comes along and tries to make it into a goddamned straight-shot superhighway to Conformity.

Get educated, get depressed, get inspired:

...And then fucking DO something about it.