RE: Your thoughts on the protests
November 11, 2016 at 10:51 am
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2016 at 10:52 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 10, 2016 at 11:22 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Riots are awesome. If your reaction to Trump being president isn't the immediate desire to throw a brick threw a window or burn something, I question your emotion as a human being.
I have too much contempt for snivilization as a whole to be remotely surprised enough at such awfulness to react emotionally to it with any real passion.
I'm an extremely emotional person, and I always have been, that's just me, but when it comes to the world and politics and its events? I made my peace with what a piece of shit this world was years ago now, I had to, caring about it too much only prevented my suicidality from going away. I became thoroughly disillusioned with this world, I did a Schopenhauer-like repudiation of it, turning away from the world in disgust.
Now? Now I take Carlin's attitude to life:
"I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to."
― George Carlin
I was an idealist but after becoming throughly disillusioned with snivilization as a whole...
...I became a cynic.
"They say if you scratch a cynic, you'll find a disappointed idealist. And I would admit, that somewhere underneath all this there's a little flicker of a flame of idealism that would love to see it all — huish! — change. But it can't happen that way. And incremental change — it just seems the pile of shit is too deep."
― George Carlin
