Which happens to be.. tragico-comic in its implications.

I'm sure that most any of us could write an essay, from entire experience - trying to capture the ingredients of the suckiness (see, already I need to use a technical term).

Look.. we're a clinical basket case! It's that ol war of opposites again:

Puritan sanctimoniousness VS the joy of sex and other pleasures.
Mind your *own* business VS the Authoritarian Need to watch, to 'correct', to discipline: ultimately to crush! opposition to a nice Orderly Homogenized group of "comfortable people just like Me".
Xenophobia VS variety - and *liking* that variety.
Hypocrisy VS noting one's own propensity to become most angry at.. seeing 'what I always do' - in another.
The concept of Original Sin\ufffd - and *all* that implies: screw society = people; get Raptured out and watch the suckers burn, while chortling over your Gooodness. (Daddy will give you a New play pen, next.)

Mainly: [our version of] the built-in, guaranteed massacre of peaceful coexistence which is promised by the tenets! of the world's organized religions - that Albatross around the neck of most of the world's population: created by the Priest-Power class, ever guarding its sinecure of Man-constructed fantasies about the Unknowable.

And the rest of the long list of contradictions here - where sex sells but.. pleasure is Suspect (and most likely the work of that ol Debbil) + the rest of related fantasies.

Our material 'wealth', and the means we have used to obtain it, while largely ignoring the exploited balance of the planet? That's just the Machiavellian aspect of our hypocrisy. (It's also the easiest 'symptom' of our depravity - as $$ happens to be our actual God here, no matter what the priests reassure the flock.)

Maybe on some future bright morning, when all (but token copies for the museum) of the Bible, the Koran, the Torah, the Bhagavad Gita, etc. are burned actually or symbolically -- can mental health be far behind the shedding of those fantasies (?)



Bon appetit; lunch time. Now you can straighten me out - correct all the above scurrilous Lies about our obvious Wonderfulness ;-)



Ashton
merely passing through
Yep - it's just a play