This is really the problem with modernity. People are EMPTY. It’s why people are fucking fat. It’s why they argue over political shit. It’s why they get so fucking angry about everything. Their lives are empty and so, they try to fill it with something, anything, that will allow them to keep avoiding that fact. The only true way out is to face that terrifying void and dive into it. To die. And then be reborn as something else, something that no longer cares about those petty games, something that has touched the terrifying/delightful reality of the mystery. That is the day one can start living. Until then, that void will demand food, sex, it will chew up relationships, it will adopt political identities, it will join tribes, it will seek power, it will chase status, and it will tear you apart as the real you becomes a shadow ready to burn everything down until you stop ignoring it. And most insidiously, it will blame everyone and everything for your problems except the real problem -- which is your inability to face the truth. Your inability to face the void. It is an endless void until you enter it. Then it becomes a fucking well from which living water gushes and that water burns away all falsehood.
Damn— so offensively stated, but I could not have described my political apathy anywhere NEAR yours. May I please quote you with hope that any of my grown children will want to read your Substack? Please say yes.
Argue about mutant political nonsense? Terminate it before it draws its first breath. Three dead before breakfast, not with a sword, but with a message. Most men wait for the thing to be born and grown and ugly before they fight it. Transmit the kill shot before the cradle is even built. Mercy at speed.
She should have thanked you. Every nonviable notion that never reaches full term is a future wasteland we don’t have to survive. You didn't mock her. You gave her the opportunity for deliverance from the demonic; from the weight of carrying something that will only hollow her out further. The antenna doesn't hate what it terminates. It just knows what shouldn't be born into the world. So does the man holding it.
Great stuff mate!
Politics is the religion of the secular.
Those who don’t find their identity in God pray at the altar of their political tribe.
Following a false god for sure
Money shot right here: “A person with a full life doesn’t need a political identity. A person with an empty one can’t survive without it.”
One of my favorite lines as well. A good life leaves no room for this shit all gets squeezed out into the toilet for others
This is really the problem with modernity. People are EMPTY. It’s why people are fucking fat. It’s why they argue over political shit. It’s why they get so fucking angry about everything. Their lives are empty and so, they try to fill it with something, anything, that will allow them to keep avoiding that fact. The only true way out is to face that terrifying void and dive into it. To die. And then be reborn as something else, something that no longer cares about those petty games, something that has touched the terrifying/delightful reality of the mystery. That is the day one can start living. Until then, that void will demand food, sex, it will chew up relationships, it will adopt political identities, it will join tribes, it will seek power, it will chase status, and it will tear you apart as the real you becomes a shadow ready to burn everything down until you stop ignoring it. And most insidiously, it will blame everyone and everything for your problems except the real problem -- which is your inability to face the truth. Your inability to face the void. It is an endless void until you enter it. Then it becomes a fucking well from which living water gushes and that water burns away all falsehood.
This is is brilliant!
Thank you RJ!
Welcome :)
"When you're winning at life, politics begins to look like two bald men fighting over a comb."
I find this rather amusing and further reminding me just why I am politically apathetic.
Good stay that way
Some great and funny lines here.
Thanks homie
Above the Politics! Out Crazied Buffalo Bonnie! Crop dusted! Daisy black dress! Yep, Born with 60’s Firepower!! Bravo!
Thank you Doctor
Man, you never fail to make me laugh, good stuff.
Mission accomplished homie
i just spit out my afternoon espresso at the crop dust through the club scene
“NEVER DRINK WHILE READING DAY”
“Two parties. Same donors. Same owners. Same machine.”
Absolutely.
Brilliant and awesome. I got off X and the news January 1st and it’s been bliss.
Damn— so offensively stated, but I could not have described my political apathy anywhere NEAR yours. May I please quote you with hope that any of my grown children will want to read your Substack? Please say yes.
Go for it
No, seriously— I loved reading this!!!!
One can only say a simple yet precise word: Real
Argue about mutant political nonsense? Terminate it before it draws its first breath. Three dead before breakfast, not with a sword, but with a message. Most men wait for the thing to be born and grown and ugly before they fight it. Transmit the kill shot before the cradle is even built. Mercy at speed.
She should have thanked you. Every nonviable notion that never reaches full term is a future wasteland we don’t have to survive. You didn't mock her. You gave her the opportunity for deliverance from the demonic; from the weight of carrying something that will only hollow her out further. The antenna doesn't hate what it terminates. It just knows what shouldn't be born into the world. So does the man holding it.
Thank Goodness for Day. Politics is pure pantomime. Love life.
Focus on your life not the dumbfuck politic
🎯🎯
Politics is like porn & masturbation for the mind
https://substack.com/@svetskiwrites/note/p-184949077?r=1daig&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Yup…
Brilliant.. haven't laughed so hard since the last Tommy Cooper show
Who’s Tommy Cooper