Sometimes there's a kind of grace, a weird peace inside me, that anyone might easily mistake for apathy. At that singular moment I feel both totally on it and wholly incapable of doing anything. I feel both buzzed and yet also sense that I may never cause the enlightenment of the kind I want to see in the world. It's mind numbingly plain how little everyone of us would have to change for such wholesale change to happen. Yet the question hangs - how might anyone of us make it happen? Each and every day I feel I can safely ignore the world. That works for me. I avoid the influence and addiction of the insane stupidity around me merely by taking a different path. Zoning out. Not playing the game. Ignoring it all. This is opting out of what most people call ordinary society. I wouldn’t put it like that and I don’t particularly care how it gets put - but what's the alternative? I certainly don’t want to engage in much of what people call society today. I feel badly let down by big media, politics and most of what we call western civilization. To me what I hear in the name of that is not civilization. So who doesn't feel totally screwed by our ‘system’ of blatant incomprehensible fraud and stupidness? In the name of civilization. But what are we doing about it other than complaining over dinner. Like our team has just done badly at some sport. My optimism for the human race keeps me going though. It stops me from convening a new gunpowder plot. Old fashioned anarchy is the wrong road anyway nowadays. It would be treated as fashionable, it would last 3 years, make the big fat media moguls more rich and fat and not change a darned thing. Most people wouldn't get it anyway. It's all too niche. Been there before. Fatigued. We need a different way to tackle these big systems issues. We need to smash through the stupidity of the system with a velvet atomic bomb. That will require a very sophisticated approach. That will require real creativity. Sunday, 15 August 2010
Surfing An Apocalypse 2- My Sense Of It
Sometimes there's a kind of grace, a weird peace inside me, that anyone might easily mistake for apathy. At that singular moment I feel both totally on it and wholly incapable of doing anything. I feel both buzzed and yet also sense that I may never cause the enlightenment of the kind I want to see in the world. It's mind numbingly plain how little everyone of us would have to change for such wholesale change to happen. Yet the question hangs - how might anyone of us make it happen? Each and every day I feel I can safely ignore the world. That works for me. I avoid the influence and addiction of the insane stupidity around me merely by taking a different path. Zoning out. Not playing the game. Ignoring it all. This is opting out of what most people call ordinary society. I wouldn’t put it like that and I don’t particularly care how it gets put - but what's the alternative? I certainly don’t want to engage in much of what people call society today. I feel badly let down by big media, politics and most of what we call western civilization. To me what I hear in the name of that is not civilization. So who doesn't feel totally screwed by our ‘system’ of blatant incomprehensible fraud and stupidness? In the name of civilization. But what are we doing about it other than complaining over dinner. Like our team has just done badly at some sport. My optimism for the human race keeps me going though. It stops me from convening a new gunpowder plot. Old fashioned anarchy is the wrong road anyway nowadays. It would be treated as fashionable, it would last 3 years, make the big fat media moguls more rich and fat and not change a darned thing. Most people wouldn't get it anyway. It's all too niche. Been there before. Fatigued. We need a different way to tackle these big systems issues. We need to smash through the stupidity of the system with a velvet atomic bomb. That will require a very sophisticated approach. That will require real creativity. 
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