Greetings good citizen, part & parcel with the world of 'I' comes the vision we have of how we expect our lives to unfold as we progress through the ladder of age, not that many of us reflect very much on what life will be like when our body starts to betray us...for the most part we all 'dream' of dying peacefully in our sleep once we have lived our lives to the fullest.
The part to keep in mind here is this is ALL 'fantasy'...specifically, YOUR fantasy.
As each 'rung' on the ladder is achieved [most often driven by the age element more so than the achievement part because most of our 'fantasies' are fluid, changing as life offers us glimpses of what it 'could be'.
The part that stays with you is regardless of how you get there, as the ride approaches the end you tend to convince yourself that for the most part, you life met your 'minimum expectations', in that respect even the most wretched of us seldom die as failures.
By the time you reach your fifties the bar has dropped considerably. You have given up on the possibility that you will retire young and live the rest of your life out in leisure...while still holding out hope for a lottery hit to turn things around for you.
Grounded we pretend to be but grounded we aren't...such is the mind.
It is here that the dreamer collides most viciously with the obstacle to achieving their dreams, that thing we call 'reality'.
Did you know that much of what passes for reality is 'pretend' too?
Which is to say the primary thing preventing you from becoming king/queen/it is the fact that there are 7 billion others with the exact same idea.
While our fantasy selves consider themselves complete, they need nothing from the 7 billion 'copycats' who want to take what is rightfully theirs, this collides with the reality that NONE OF US can live a life of leisure, er, 'unassisted'.
No individual possesses that much 'talent', with the weird exception of writers...who develop godlike talents when crafting their narratives...to bad that too is only 'make believe'.
But we digress.
'The Dream' is part of what maintains the 'peace' within an insular society such as ours because it allows the individual to pretend that all things are possible when we know in our hearts THEY ARE NOT.
So it is we have the political process and the 'illusion of participation' it provides. How many of you are with Speaker Pelosi that we will just have to satisfy ourselves with the fact that Donadl (misspelling intentional) has been impeached and will from this day forward carry that stain on his reputation with him...because the Senate will not prosecute him even if he does murder an innocent passerby in Times square on live television!
The MF HUMPED the flag on national television and the media didn't say boo...tells us who is working for who, doesn't it?
Because like the whole election process, the bought and paid for government is also a chimera, an exercise in 'let's pretend' where the rest of us have been reduced to the role of 'observers'.
We CAN'T prosecute him ourselves, the tools don't exist.
But wait, is ridding ourselves of the most annoying president in history really the biggest problem on our collective plate, what about our children's dwindling future?
Why do NONE of you dumbasses ever bring that up?
Notice NONE of the morons running for 'Leader of the 'free world' are offering anything beside free education FOR JOBS THAT DON'T EXIST! WTF!
[Chant the refrain children!]
If YOU don't get your head out of 'fantasyland' the future is fucked.
Nuff said!
Gegner
The part to keep in mind here is this is ALL 'fantasy'...specifically, YOUR fantasy.
As each 'rung' on the ladder is achieved [most often driven by the age element more so than the achievement part because most of our 'fantasies' are fluid, changing as life offers us glimpses of what it 'could be'.
The part that stays with you is regardless of how you get there, as the ride approaches the end you tend to convince yourself that for the most part, you life met your 'minimum expectations', in that respect even the most wretched of us seldom die as failures.
By the time you reach your fifties the bar has dropped considerably. You have given up on the possibility that you will retire young and live the rest of your life out in leisure...while still holding out hope for a lottery hit to turn things around for you.
Grounded we pretend to be but grounded we aren't...such is the mind.
It is here that the dreamer collides most viciously with the obstacle to achieving their dreams, that thing we call 'reality'.
Did you know that much of what passes for reality is 'pretend' too?
Which is to say the primary thing preventing you from becoming king/queen/it is the fact that there are 7 billion others with the exact same idea.
While our fantasy selves consider themselves complete, they need nothing from the 7 billion 'copycats' who want to take what is rightfully theirs, this collides with the reality that NONE OF US can live a life of leisure, er, 'unassisted'.
No individual possesses that much 'talent', with the weird exception of writers...who develop godlike talents when crafting their narratives...to bad that too is only 'make believe'.
But we digress.
'The Dream' is part of what maintains the 'peace' within an insular society such as ours because it allows the individual to pretend that all things are possible when we know in our hearts THEY ARE NOT.
So it is we have the political process and the 'illusion of participation' it provides. How many of you are with Speaker Pelosi that we will just have to satisfy ourselves with the fact that Donadl (misspelling intentional) has been impeached and will from this day forward carry that stain on his reputation with him...because the Senate will not prosecute him even if he does murder an innocent passerby in Times square on live television!
The MF HUMPED the flag on national television and the media didn't say boo...tells us who is working for who, doesn't it?
Because like the whole election process, the bought and paid for government is also a chimera, an exercise in 'let's pretend' where the rest of us have been reduced to the role of 'observers'.
We CAN'T prosecute him ourselves, the tools don't exist.
But wait, is ridding ourselves of the most annoying president in history really the biggest problem on our collective plate, what about our children's dwindling future?
Why do NONE of you dumbasses ever bring that up?
Notice NONE of the morons running for 'Leader of the 'free world' are offering anything beside free education FOR JOBS THAT DON'T EXIST! WTF!
[Chant the refrain children!]
If YOU don't get your head out of 'fantasyland' the future is fucked.
Nuff said!
Gegner
But wait, is ridding ourselves of the most annoying president in history really the biggest problem on our collective plate, what about our children's dwindling future?
ReplyDeleteWhy do NONE of you dumbasses ever bring that up?
Notice NONE of the morons running for 'Leader of the 'free world' are offering anything beside free education FOR JOBS THAT DON'T EXIST! WTF!
[Chant the refrain children!]
While our fantasy selves consider themselves complete, they need nothing from the 7 billion 'copycats' who want to take what is rightfully theirs, this collides with the reality that NONE OF US can live a life of leisure, er, 'unassisted'.
ReplyDeleteIs it still 'success' if there is no one to lord it over?
Because like the whole election process, the bought and paid for government is also a chimera, an exercise in 'let's pretend' where the rest of us have been reduced to the role of 'observers'.
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