My End of Year Rant Against Mindlessness.

Socio-Political Rants

One of the last things I did at the turn of the last century was step over a bandaged wrapped body of 14 year old boy who died of Malaria. I thought it was one of the most ridiculous things someone had to do when the first world was about to throw billions of dollars into drinks alone in an attempt to entertain themselves because we were hitting the 21st century.

Today, as I tucked myself in the corner of a boat, my dad who was fishing called to me and asked if I was okay. I replied in the affirmative, and he added, “having deep thoughts up there are you?”

“Yup,” I replied, “From the seas of chaos the universe is born.”

He nodded and left me to it.

It might sound like a joke, but that was truly the sentence I was reading when he posed the question. I flipped the page and read about imaginary new economic and legal systems. I wrote in the margins.

“The premise we should return to the “old” ways of subsistence farming and community is bunk. The “old” way was the foundation of what we have now. Shouldn’t we aim to use human imagination and all the new knowledge to envision an improved system, where sustainability, mental environment, and healthy communities are a priority? (Triple bottom line economic model.)" (triple underline)

After I wrote that I could practically hear some random acquaintance go, “Why do you have such serious thoughts?”

My reply, “I don’t know. I like it.”

I say that because I don’t want to get into it. I prefer to remain frivolous with most people, because no one really wants to hang out with a downer, and I rather have more friends then less. Which is the very reason I have Glutter, so I can go on about whatever I feel like without burdening and boring anyone else. That’s why I have close friends who talk as much as me.

Therefore as I come near the forth anniversary of the millennium I want to (secretly, yet so publicly) say, “Why the hell don’t other people have serious thoughts?" Are they blind or just heartless? Do they honestly not see the current system and paradigm of thought is leaving a negative imprint on the globe, humanity, the oceans, and our future? Huh? Really, what is so bad about serious thoughts anyway? Why can’t I have them?

Why don’t more people do? Why is our culture so inundated with useless but entertaining crap yet no one takes issue? Why is it perfectly okay for someone to accuse me of having too serious thoughts, when I can’t look them in the eye and accuse them of mindlessness?

I would quite like to actually.
 

Why is it perfectly okay to openly talk about one’s interest in someone else’s private life that is published in some badly written magazine? Why is it that no one gets locked into mental institutes when they tell you how they hate a certain celebrity they have never met, never will, and really disapprove of their personal decisions on dress, who they date, how they live? Isn’t that like adults having imaginary friends?

Like how come people feel such moral outrage over something like stem cell research or cloning humans, and when the possibility is far away, the reality means we can possibly create damaged organs from a person’s own tissue removing the side effects of rejection, and the possibility a few very rich or obsessed individuals would like to clone themselves to fulfill personal megalomania? (I really don’t care if they do. I would never meet them anyway, but possibly read about them one day.) Yet we feel perfectly fine that some of the world (even more at this moment, due to the Asian Tsunami) has no access to clean water, electricity, and medical care? Why aren’t we protesting that tens possibly hundreds of thousands of people are about to die of cholera, infections, or hunger? I mean if you have to have moral outrage over scientific research over cloning, the only reason to be is that why are we spending so much money on that, instead of say… the cure for malaria?

I really don’t know.

I don’t see why those people can’t just nod and leave me alone. It works perfectly. Then again, why do I care what those people think? How much should I weigh their opinion of me in the first place? I already established they are mindless. Why am I thinking about them? I shall return to my serious thoughts. Where was I?

From the seas of chaos the universe was born…

PS. Happy New Year fellow Serious People..