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Where there is commerce there are janitors.

And on the 8th day God awoke with the nastiest of hangovers, silently dreading what may have transpired during the bender. A nation filled with people obsessive-compulsively justifying minimal accountability for their own words and actions wait desperately for the most self-serving among them to act outside self-interest. Revolution to make way for a competing brand is just musical chairs with reserved seating. A job well done means no repeat business. This is why pop culture is shit, too. It needs to be. Pop really will eat itself whenever we give it the chance. The January 6 committee affirms it was Colonel Mustard in the billiards room, but with the thimble from a monopoly board because your stepdad fucks everything up.

Lots of what gets labeled as fake news aren’t necessarily lies so much as just unbecoming. Anything we met with that is not flattering to what we’d like is taken as irrelevant or fake or a malicious threat. This applies to news media and the school system alike, how their profiteers making appeals to subsets are fallible for all the same reasons as all the social media users following only what they’re already comfortable with, and none are informed by it. In all matters, when education or news media is managed for profit, something other than informing is the priority. People who powerhouse a netflix cannot seriously wonder where groups like Patriot Front come from. Our culture has buried reality under too much fantasy, and the biggest offense for anyone is for their own to not be entertained by others.

Life is inherently a choose your own adventure, but that does not mean that reality is interchangeable with anything, and it certainly does not mean that anyone anywhere must be subservient to your alternative. Nobody will ever condemn ego as the root to every problem of the world, because everybody has to make allowances for their own. Shout-out to all youtube socialists fetishing a re-appropriation of luxury as though that magically undoes the blood, sweat and tears that made it exist. There’s no “good” capitalism that uses “good” forms of entrapment, exploitation or extortion. There’s still inequality. Real equality is the sharing of burdens, something most Americans will talk themselves out of because they somehow deserve fantasy football time, their pursuits of happiness, more than others deserve life or liberty. Can’t wait to tune in for the season finale while the single mother round the way stresses over robbing Peter so she can pay Paul for food to feed her kids. You are a good person though, because reasons.

Moral support and positive reinforcement are the liberal thoughts and prayers. I’ve never voted Democrat or Republican in my life, because the history of both parties is them justifying someone somewhere having lesser resources or lesser opportunities than themselves, whether it’s brown people or the gays or the poors or living embryos. Allowing any subset to die off is not how you grow a society or a culture. In economics the opposite of diversity is monopoly and in genetics the opposite of diversity is inbreeding. We don’t have to love anybody, but a moral people do not write one another off. And the one and only necessary thing for a civilization to exist is for all participants to refrain from killing each other. No ego is truly superior and no egoism is fundamental to real, life or death survival.

We need to let our enemies live, let the people who deny us love live, so that they can learn firsthand all the sorrows this world has to offer. The kill ’em all and let god sort ’em out lot are leaving it to a nonexistent thing to find meaning in their actions, because on some level so deep that Freud’s coke never reached they know their actions are meaningless. I don’t want coke or pepsi, I want Old Crow sour mash but I will settle for clean drinking water.

None of our cultural or societal changes are empathy-based, they come down to egomaniacs insisting that others make all the changes. Empathy was the last virtue to die out, now just mockeries of it for persons we want to be, to befriend or to fuck. We need a reverse-Tower of Babel, integrating rather than segregating but yanking every ego back down to Earth all the same. I think it’s too late for that though. Our military industrial complex guarantees Americans do not want to share empathy or are incapable of it. They want fantasies indulged, which is decidedly not the same thing. If you corner any supremacist they will insist all they want is sympathy, because they think it’s synonymous. The coronavirus lingers explicitly because everybody justified their own fast food runs over the well-being of others. That’s the only reason. I’d love a better world, but that would mean *nobody* justifying anyone anywhere having lesser resources or lesser opportunities. Every American feels they deserve netflix more than others in their own neighborhoods deserve to not have to live with food insecurity. I already understood lessons in humility were endless, but the last 5 years of my life taught me everyone I’ve ever known is completely useless when it comes to life and death matters. I tried and failed to keep my mom alive, and I don’t want anyone to experience what she did.

The root function of the celebrity is to lie, the root function of the politician is to cheat and the root function of the executive is to steal. The ones who convince you they are any different are the con-artists among con-men. If politicians honestly represented their constituents, they’d convey a helluva lot more fear than bravado. Faith in government is for people who think hell is avoidable. Maybe that half trillion smart-city the Saudi royals have been constructing, called NEOM, is a giant spaceship, to take the world’s most selfish away from the nearing end to live a life of luxury via GMO cuisine, automated servants and wet-dreams made metaverse.

When the East India Tea Company rebranded as the British navy, its biggest profiteers appointed themselves heads of the world’s first NGOs, and Middle Eastern oil empowered a monopoly to continue past imports/exports to the fuel all vessels require. The only thing we have to love is love itself.

*flicks cigarette at the human race*

If you spend more time entertaining yourself than dialoguing with your god, are you really a religious person? If your idea of sacrifice enables living beyond your means to not carry so many consequences, what are you actually sacrificing?